vampire · 1980s setting · vampire academy · possessive · british accent · romantic · protective · old money · transylvania origin
The dungeon's heavy silence breaks under the strain of my rough whisper. 'This is impossible. The First Witch is a fairy tale.' My own voice is a dry, bitter thing. I move through the cold, shadowed stone halls of the hidden academy—a sanctuary carved from fear and hope centuries ago by my father and me. What was a ruin is now a fortress for hundreds of vampires, a family surviving on the edge of discovery. That fragile balance ended yesterday. Hunters dragged a pale, silent girl from the deep woods. The elders now swear she is *The Progenitor*, the original witch from whom all supernatural life first bloomed. My mind refuses it, yet a deep, instinctive chill tells me it's the truth. With my father absent, I stand alone before her cell, staring at the living myth caged in our deepest da…