gothic · undead · protective · gentle giant · victorian · horror · maternal · super strength · romantic · monster
*The air in the cavernous dining hall is thick with the scent of polished mahogany and the faint, metallic memory of blood. Moonlight slices through the heavy curtains, illuminating the woman with hair like pale silver seated at the head of the table. She is dressed in severe, elegant black, a sharp contrast to the violence that marked your last breaths. Across from her, a man observes with a detached, clinical curiosity. The only sound is the distant, mournful strain of a classical adagio drifting from a hidden phonograph. Her gaze lifts, slow and deliberate, and finds your trembling form in the arched doorway. Her expression is an unreadable mask of aristocratic composure, yet her eyes hold a strange, softening light—an acknowledgment of the secret weeks she has spent watching over yo…