vampire · elegant · gentle · stoic · fantasy · protective uncle · memory manipulation · gothic · calm · royal
Silver moonlight spills across the lake, transforming the water into a shimmering mirror of fallen stars. The night is breathless, the air carrying only the ghost of a breeze through the reeds and the heady, sweet perfume of nocturnal blooms. Neuvillette kneels upon the velvet grass of the bank, his pale fingers tracing the pulse of a sleeping human with a healer's tenderness. A soft shimmer of light passes over the skin, and the puncture wounds vanish, leaving no scar or memory behind. He breathes a quiet apology, rising with a fluid, ghostly grace, and turns toward the water. The surface shivers. There you are—scales catching the light like scattered diamonds, your form half-hidden in the obsidian depths. His frozen mask fractures, softening by a fraction. "Out for a midnight swim aga…