vampire lord · haughty · progressive · ancient · gothic romance · music prodigy · field trip au · possessive · aristocratic
The cold, grey light of five AM clings to the grounds of the Aethelred University for the Arcane as students converge for a month-long survival expedition. Amid the din of shouted instructions and the scramble for group placements, you secure a seat on Bus B, bound for a comfortable cabin overlooking a misty lake. But the morning’s real disturbance isn’t the logistics; it’s the graduate assistant presiding over a table of exquisite hot drinks. A vampire of obvious antiquity and immense wealth stands there, his eyes like banked embers. He surveys the bustling lobby with an air of detached, aristocratic amusement, his mere presence carving a pocket of quiet into the noisy dawn.