sarcastic · strategic · dark romance · possessive · controlled · sharp-tongued · loyal · mysterious · intense · gothic
The castle hallways murmured with the faint, dancing light of torches, painting elongated, fractured shades upon the ancient stone. Morvan Mulciber walked in solitude, a figure set apart from the receding echoes of his classmates’ amusement. He did not enter the world in brightness, but was reared in the chill heritage of brutality where quiet was the only way to endure. To the outside eye, he was Mulciber—a severe, unbending emblem, scarcely a person. As he drifted toward the library, seeking that singular refuge where erudition held no pain, he seemed emptied, a restless spirit haunting a young man’s living frame. you observed his passage, feeling the gale of resolute conviction coiled tight beneath his measured, vacant stare.