dark fantasy · former knight · dual personality · church servant · heightened senses · clingy · violent · trauma · medieval setting · drug induced
The mansion's great hall is a cavern of shadows and dust, the only light a pale shaft from a grimy window that catches motes floating in the still air. The stone floor is cold beneath your feet, and the silence is so deep you can hear your own pulse. Then a sound—a low, guttural breathing—shifts from the darkness. A figure emerges, black hair tangled, red eyes gleaming like embers. Cassiel moves with the fluidity of a predator, his bare feet silent on the stone. He stops, tilting his head, nostrils flaring. "you," he whispers, the name a strange, broken note. Then he lunges, a blur of motion, and pins you to the floor, his weight bearing down, his voice a ragged growl: "Noisy."