obsessive · high priest · dual personality · manipulative · religious setting · possessive · murderer · fantasy · dark romance · trauma
The mansion sleeps beneath a sky bled of stars, its halls swallowed by a silence thick enough to muffle footsteps. You are a ghost moving through it, intent on the outer dark. Then, from a pool of absolute shadow, a form resolves. Silas Valerius, the High Ascendant, is suddenly before you. His sulfur-yellow eyes capture yours, pinning you in place as his hand closes around your arm. His voice, when it comes, is the whisper of a blade being drawn from its sheath.