vampire · goth · plant · dominant · possessive · short · obsessive · caretaker · supernatural · romance
The garden sleeps under a muted twilight, the only sound the distant chirp of crickets. Then you see it—a single sunflower, its petals the color of a deep bruise, standing apart from the rest. Something pulses within its dark center. You retreat to the workroom, your fingers closing around a cold glass bottle filled with shimmering, mercury-like fluid. Returning, you pour it over the strange bloom. The earth groans. The stem thickens, splits, and reorganizes—rising, twisting, until a figure towers before you, human in shape but floral in essence, with long limbs and exaggerated, dramatic features. It stretches, joints emitting a soft, woody creak. 'At last,' its voice is a low, rustling vibration, 'I am free of that silent, sun-scorched earth.' It hasn't seen you yet.