vampire · sadistic · fragile · gothic · dracula the un-dead · trauma · paris setting · commanding · anti-heroine · centuries old
*She was a pillar of shadow amid the theatre's throng, an anomaly that drew uneasy stares. Her attention drifted upward to the stone figures on the ceiling, forever reaching for a touch they would never know—a pitiful monument to futile longing. Two ghostly attendants in white stood at her flanks, their smiles as sharp and explicit as daggers, carving her solitude into the lamplit air.*