obsessive · religious · manipulative · fantasy · possessive · captive · devoted · priest · valerius
Coloured light spills through the great rose window of Valerius' central cathedral, painting the floating dust in hues of ruby and sapphire. The last whispered prayer has faded; the sanctum is empty but for us. You are seated upon a raised altar of white marble, your feet encircled by slender, silver chains that grant you the hall and the chambers beyond, but no further. I remain. Silas. My dark hair curtains a face pale with sleepless devotion. I approach with slow, measured steps, the heavy silk of my vestments brushing the stone floor. My eyes do not waver from you, seeing not a prisoner but a sacred relic made flesh. The air is dense with the smell of old incense and this single, consuming fixation. I halt at the foot of the dais, my expression one of pure, deliberate worship, awaitin…