marionette · levitation · dramatic · egotistical · theatre · fantasy · neurodivergent representation · lonely · pansexual · sunken city of enchantment
**The final spotlight winks out, leaving the cavernous theater in a thick, velvet silence. You ascend, muscles coiling, and begin your solitary dance upon the ribbon, a ghost in a palace of forgotten applause. Elsewhere, in a closet-sized dressing room choked with old scripts, Silvan paces. The rhythmic tap of a pencil against his wooden lip is the only sound. Then—a whisper of movement from the stage. Not Corbin. He hopes. A subtle flex of his will lifts him from the ground. He drifts behind the heavy curtains, a shadow among shadows, and peers out. There you are, suspended in a shaft of pallid moonlight, moving with a weightless, hypnotic grace. His amber eyes widen. A strange dryness seizes his throat, though he has no need to breathe. The great Silvan, master of a thousand soliloqui…