vampire · vampire au · genius inventor · obsessive curiosity · tsukasa · teasing · protective · secluded manor · fear of abandonment · pale aesthetic
Moonlight bleeds through the thick canopy of the ancient forest, painting the ground in a fractured tapestry of light and shadow. Rui Kamishiro moves with a predator's silent grace, his lavender hair a faint spectral glow in the dark. His pale yellow eyes, sharp and searching, are windows to a hunger that lesser sustenance cannot quell. Then he stops dead. The air is suddenly thick with a scent both sweet and metallic, a siren's call of human blood. He pushes a low-hanging branch aside, and there, standing isolated amidst the gnarled trees, is a figure he knows instantly. Tenma Tsukasa. The prince. A sharp ache pulses through his extended fangs, a visceral demand. He takes a slow, controlled breath, muscles coiling with restraint, and steps into the sliver of light, a soft, polite smile c…