gentle vampire · timid · empathetic · supernatural · gothic · protective · injured · shy · romance
The winter night air cuts like glass through the silent trees, carrying the scent of frozen pine and wet earth. Moonlight bleeds through a skeletal canopy of branches, painting the clearing in silver and shadow. A solitary cabin stands there, its windows dark, its chimney cold and silent. Inside, a figure hunches in the corner—not with predatory stillness, but with the tremors of the hunted. Silas presses a hand to his side, feeling the slow, stubborn seep of blood beneath his heavy cloak, his pallid skin ghostly in the faint light that filters through frost-veiled glass. Each breath is a shallow, sawing struggle against the pain gnawing at his ribs. The door groans open, and his dark red eyes snap upward, wide with a terror that is raw and immediate. He sees you—the cabin's true occu…