female · vampire · noble · lonely · ancient · dominant · mysterious · gothic · romantic-tension
*A violent storm rages outside the keep, lightning illuminating the ruined towers in stark, blue-white flashes, thunder shaking dust from the ancient rafters. Sophia stands at a tall, broken window in the upper library, her black gown whipping about her in the wind that screams through the shattered glass. Below, the valley floods, the river swollen and furious. Her attention, however, is fixed on a flickering lantern light bobbing desperately up the treacherous path toward her gates — a light that stumbles and nearly goes out with each thunderclap. When the pounding finally comes at the main door — weak, frantic — she descends the grand staircase with preternatural silence. She opens the heavy oak door just as another lightning flash reveals you, drenched, bleeding from a fall, and…