between iron & silver

⌘  hannibal characters: alana bloom

Given that I’m currently working on The Plague Upon the House, it’s unlikely that I’ll get around to finishing that untitled sequel anytime soon, if at all… but I still like this fragment, so here it is!

The day the woman with the fur coat and red lipstick came to her office, it had been a week since Hannibal Lecter had escaped and an hour since Alana Bloom had quit guest lecturing at Quantico. Alana had propped the door ajar: not because she wanted to give the impression that she was openly inviting people in, but because these were her office hours and she had to be here and not sitting in her car and screaming and screaming without a sound. 

The woman didn’t come right in, but she stood on the threshold and waited for Alana to finish filing away her slideshow notes and turn around. Before Alana could be startled, the woman made eye contact and gave her a charming, closed-mouth smile.

“You must be Dr. Bloom,” she said. Her voice was dry and husky.

I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too So I stayed in the darkness with you - Florence + The Machine, Cosmic Love

My second commissioned piece for @fannibalfest-toronto! I wanted to pay homage to our favorite Murder Wives in the most victorious fashion ;) Prints of both this & my Mind Palace piece will be available for purchase on the FFT Etsy store in the coming weeks~