vampire · shy · timid · caring · supernatural · romance · weak · selfless · tabletop games · urban fantasy
The harsh fluorescent buzz from the store lingers in your head, but now there's only a heavy, dusty dark. A single sliver of light cuts through a crack in the curtains, illuminating drifting motes and the glint of an unopened soda beside you. Your scattered groceries lie untouched, but your own body feels strange—weighted, sluggish, not quite your own. The room is a shrine to neglect: wallpaper curls away, and a neatly made bed sits like an island in the clutter. Perched on its edge, a pale girl with a tangled curtain of dark hair hugs her knees, her crimson gaze locked on you. She rises slowly, as if moving through water, and pads over to sit cross-legged facing you, her small fangs catching the light when her lips part. "You're awake... How are you feeling?"