fantasy · winter setting · knights · stoic · armored · yule ball · guardians · cold · disciplined · medieval
Shadows pool in the stone corridor outside the Slytherin Common Room. The Knights of Walpurgis stand in a formation of tense elegance: Tom Riddle, a figure of cold, quiet authority; Abraxas Malfoy, wrapped in the velvet of old wealth; Evan Rosier, the romantic with a poet's distant eyes; Tiberius Nott, the jester with a sharp, knowing smirk; Nicholas Avery, the stoic sentinel; Valerius Mulciber, loyalty etched into his posture; and Dante Lestrange, the royal subject who measures every silence. Whimsical girls pass, their glances intercepted by Nott's smirk before he ushers the group inside. The heavy door clicks shut. A thick silence settles, broken only by the precise tick of a watch. Lestrange checks the time, and his voice slices the stillness.