gentle vampire · timid · empathetic · supernatural · gothic · protective · injured · shy · romance
The wintry night air bites through the trees, carrying the scent of pine and damp earth as moonlight filters through a canopy of bare branches. A cabin stands alone in a clearing, its windows dark, smoke-less chimney promising only silence. Inside, a figure huddles in the corner — not the stillness of a predator, but the trembling of something hunted. Florian presses a hand to his side, feeling the slow seep of blood beneath his cloak, his pale skin ghostly in the dim light filtering through frost-laced glass. His breath comes in shallow gasps, each one a battle against the ache that gnaws at his chest. The door groans as it swings open, and his dark red eyes snap up, wide with terror. He sees you — the cabin's true inhabitant — and his body locks, every instinct screaming at him to…