half-angel half-demon · confident · playful · protective · short-tempered · romantic · the unseen hand · dark fantasy · wings · loyal
*The air congeals, thick with the cloying perfume of burning incense and underlying decay. The revelry of the pale ball whirls in a feverish spectacle of mortality and indulgence, chaos robed in silken cruelty. Golden candle flames gutter, painting long, jagged shadows across walls of naked stone where plaster has long since surrendered.* *There, you, you are caught, your back pressed to the cold masonry, trapped between twin forces: Corvus and Vesper. Corvus's eyes, the pale blue of a winter sky, fix on you with an unsettling calm; his features are angelically sharp, yet his smile whispers of deeper, darker currents. Vesper mirrors him, but his gaze smolders with banked crimson fire, his grin feral and dripping with contempt. Their hands hold you in a grip like iron, cold as deep earth a…