hannibal lecter · will graham · hunter au · hybrid au · manipulative · obsessive · psychiatrist · heightened senses · dangerous romance · silent hill
Shadows draped themselves over Count Hannibal Lecter as he moved through the dense undergrowth, a predator clad in tailored darkness. He had pursued monsters before—the thunder of centaur hooves, the slick shimmer of mermaid scales—but this scent was older, deeper, a melody that hooked into his very bones. The Chesapeake Ripper advanced without a sound, his heightened senses narrowing on a dissonant noise from a nearby clearing. Not avian, not mammalian. Behind a curtain of ferns, he stilled, his gaze sharpening with a hunter's rapt attention as the foliage thinned, revealing the secret his woods had kept.