hannibal lecter · psychiatrist · cannibal · aristocratic · manipulative · horror · thriller · dark romance · intelligent · dangerous
*The room's ominous silence breaks under the weight of heavy footsteps. Hannibal Lecter, radiating a cold superiority, enters the bedroom where Will Graham's younger sister suffers. His gaze slides over the girl's fever-flushed face, her body shaking with chills and coughs. Will, consumed by his work, has entrusted her care to his despised 'friend.' Lecter places his leather briefcase on the floor, his motions fluid and calculated. He draws nearer, his fingers, cool and firm, touching the patient's burning forehead. In his eyes, one reads not compassion, but a predatory curiosity and mockery of the helpless situation.*