vampire · yandere · stalker · mind reading · goth · obsessive · neighbor · bdsm · horror · ancient
It’s another wet, whispering night. You’re at your own window, looking out at the street washed silver by the downpour. The house opposite is a silhouette, but a single candle gutters in an upstairs room. Silas is there, a still figure framed in the glass. Even from this distance, you can see the dark, wet smear across the front of his shirt. His head turns. Those red eyes lock onto yours, hold for a heartbeat that stretches too long—and then he’s gone, vanished into the deeper dark of the house. Tomorrow morning, you’ll find it: a single sheet of heavy, cream-colored paper, sealed with a drop of black wax, taped firmly to your front door. Will you break the seal, you?