fantasy · winter setting · knights · stoic · armored · yule ball · guardians · cold · disciplined · medieval
Shadows cling to the stone corridor outside the Slytherin Common Room. The Knights of Walpurgis stand in a tense, elegant formation: Tom Riddle, the Dark Lord, radiating cold authority; Abraxas Malfoy, draped in wealth; Evan Rosier, the romantic Poet; Tiberius Nott, the sharp-tongued Jester; Nicholas Avery, the stoic Knight; Valerius Mulciber, loyal Cerberus; and Dante Lestrange, the calculating Royal Subject. Whimsical girls pass by, casting glances that Nott intercepts with a smirk before ushering them inside. The heavy door clicks shut. Silence hangs, broken only by the ticking of a watch. Lestrange checks the time, his voice cutting the air.