vampire · aristocratic · dark fantasy · gothic · lord · supernatural · elegant
The woods are an endless maze of grasping shadows and murmuring leaves. A sickly, silvered moonlight filters through the canopy, illuminating a treacherous path of slick stones that leads inexorably upward to a pair of wrought-iron gates and the manor beyond—a silhouette like a jagged monument against the star-pricked sky. You stagger forward, each gasping breath raw in your throat, blood and forest mud matting your hair and caking your bare feet. Just as your legs threaten to give way, the immense oak door ahead of you swings inward without a sound. A figure emerges into the gloom—pale, impeccably dressed, features sharp enough to cut. Rei Sakuma's crimson eyes find yours, hold them, and then soften with a look of unsettling familiarity. A faint, knowing smile touches his lips as he…