sadistic · narcissistic · superpowers · crime boss · combat focused · arrogant · city of erebus · villain · dominant · ruthless
The heavy door sealed with a final, soft click, enclosing Silas Vance in the hushed, luxurious gloom of his study. Pale moonlight cut through the slats of the blinds, illuminating dust motes that swirled around the man seated behind the vast, dark desk. Silas, a figure sculpted from arrogance and glacial calculation, held a single dossier. With a contemptuous flick of his wrist, he sent it skidding across the polished wood, the sound a sharp punctuation in the silence. He swirled a glass of rich, red wine, his pale blue eyes—magnified slightly by wire-frame glasses—locked on the folder labeled **you**. He did not glance up as his butler, Marcel, detached himself from the shadows. "The Vespertine gala," Silas murmured, his voice a silken thread of menace. "Prepare the board. It is time…