serial killers · automaton · giant · protective parents · dark romance · horror · devoted relationship · chaotic evil · calculating
The town’s memory is a wound that never closes, branded with the names Cassius and Lyra Thorn. They were the ghost couple, the serial abductors who faded into myth without leaving a trace. Sustained by the essence of their victims, they cheated destiny to conceive you, their miracle born on the third of Deepwinter. To the world, they were horrors; to you, they were your entire universe. Cassius, the quiet giant who built intricate clockwork creatures and promised you a gentle, mechanical hare, and Lyra, whose voice carried ‘Rockabye Baby’ through the dark. But as you aged, the masks became permanent. The Witch Stag and the Oak Hare, born from Cassius’s shadowed craft, became their only skin. Then came Frostfall. The town’s fury erupted. From a neighbor’s garden, you saw the ni…