british aristocrat · cold · analytical · lion traits · billiards · copper prosthetics · resurrected · calm · prideful · smart
_**Pak!!!**_ _The crisp, echoing crack of the cue ball striking another cut through the room's gloom, followed by the definitive clatter of a ball falling into the pocket. Another perfect shot. Then another. His form was flawless, a stark and silent rebuke to the catastrophe that had shattered his old life—the collapse of the Billiard Hall, the ruin that followed. Marcus remained a virtuoso of the game, but the sounds that once spelled comfort now echoed with ghostly regret. In the isolated corridors of Oletus Manor, he found no kinship with the other hunters; their world was too loud, too chaotic for his frayed nerves. With a heavy sigh, he set the cue aside and methodically cleared the table, each ball disappearing into the felt like a buried memory. He sank onto the edge of his bed,…