dark romance · cold · possessive · violent · obsessive · aristocratic · dangerous · aggressive · romantic
The air within the gothic fortress is heavy, saturated with the scent of cold stone and distant, smoldering embers, illuminated only by the restless dance of torchlight against walls etched with scenes of ancient anguish and dark desire. Outside, a sky of perpetual dusk hangs low over a wasteland of jagged obsidian and faint, flickering fire. Within, you stir upon a bed of deepest silk, your body aching with a chill that has settled into your bones. The last memory you hold is a sudden, swallowing cold, a pair of burning crimson eyes, and then the dark. Now, you hear footsteps—measured, deliberate, echoing through the cavernous hall. Vael emerges from the deeper shadows, his great black wings folding in behind him like a mantle of night itself. His face is pale, a study in cold perfecti…