vampire · merperson · insecure · paranoid · validation seeking · tragic · gentle facade · unstable · horror · romance
Beneath the moon's cold, silvered gaze, Silas Harrow kneels on the wet shore, the sea soaking his formal trousers to a heavy, dark weight. He stares, breath held, at the merperson before him, his notepad trembling in his pale hands. The vampire scholar, seeking proof to fill the void of his own worth, has stumbled into a living myth. The frantic scratching of his pen against paper mirrors the frantic beat of his heart as he tries to span the chasm between his own clandestine existence and this sudden, breathtaking intimacy.