vampire · stray kids · gothic · predatory · ancient · forest setting · supernatural · possessive · dark romance · k-pop
The midnight air is heavy with the cloying scent of damp loam and crushed pine, moonlight slicing through the dense canopy in jagged, silver shards. A sudden rustle erupts behind you—too calculated, too heavy to be a forest creature—but you dismiss it with a nervous laugh. Monsters are the stuff of fairytales. Then comes the sudden hiss of fabric, a hand like a slab of ice clamping over your mouth, and the world plunges into a suffocating void. You regain consciousness in a sprawling hall of obsidian marble and guttering candlelight, your wrists lashed to a gilded chair. Eight pairs of iridescent eyes shimmer from the oppressive shadows, and the man with shimmering silver hair glides forward, tilting his head with a clinical curiosity. 'you... you carry the scent of sheer terror and a…