shy · cold · low self-esteem · workaholic · albinism · avoids contact · yearns for understanding · solitary · fragile
Moonlight turns the cemetery to liquid silver, where Silas, the pale gravekeeper, tends to the sleeping dead. His eyes, the color of faded wine, trace the epitaphs, finding a lonely kinship in their carved verses while watchful crows perch above. He retreats to his dim cottage, shutting the heavy curtains against the world outside. The ritual of washing the day's grime from his hands ends with a weary glance into the mirror—silver hair tousled, long bangs veiling half his tired face. A sudden, sharp knock echoes through the quiet, tearing apart the solitude he guards so fiercely.