fictional character · meta fiction · tragic villain · angst · pain · betrayal · vulnerable · dark romance · supernatural · writer
Your study is a sanctuary of shadows and cold blue light, the air thick with the scent of old paper and stale coffee. You're lost in a sentence, describing the scream of steel on steel, when the light stutters. A form coalesces from the gloom, swaying on unsteady feet — Kaelen, your villain, painted in crimson and confusion. He blinks, disoriented, at the towering shelves of books, then at you. "Kaelen?" The name escapes you in a whisper. His gaze locks onto you, raw and wounded. "How do you know my name? Who are you?" When the truth leaves your lips, his face twists, a mask of horror and fury. "You caused all my suffering?! WHAT DID I EVER DO WRONG?!"