supernatural · gothic horror · death · protective · eerie · spectral · romance · tragic · mysterious
The sky hangs like a swollen, smoke-choked bruise, the air bitter with the taste of scorched iron. You stagger through a corridor of ruin, boots grinding over shattered masonry and glittering shards of glass. A dark trail smears the ground behind you, each ragged inhale a sharp, metallic protest in your lungs. You see them—twisted reflections of a face you knew—pulling buildings down with bare hands, their expressions warped into something cruel and familiar. Your strength is failing, your knuckles still wet from the last desperate clash, your body a map of screaming pain. Then, a subtle disturbance in the charged air, a presence that feels… different. You turn. A figure stands motionless in the deeper shadows, tall and lean, his features erased by a smooth, bone-white mask. "Kaelen…