♛ ✧・゚:*Masquerade Ball Starters | not accepting
☆ ▌┊ ❛ 𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐒 as the cold, damp asphalt beneath her body rouses her from dormancy. The crisp night air against her skin coupled with her fluctuating consciousness was enough to make her believe she was at the mercy of death’s sweet release, yet the dull pain in her head did plenty to dispel such notions. An experience I know all too well, she darkly muses, for the goddess of the dead spares star incarnate from her domain once more.
Stella Nox Fleuret waits for her headache to subside as she slowly finds her bearings in the new world she had woken up to. As she looks up to take in her surroundings, her eyes are greeted with a scene that leaves her dazed and confused : the neon lights, the towering skyscrapers, and the looming shadow of what appears to be the Citadel from a distance away were all sights she recognizes. Sights that are forever burned into her memory.
Is this place not Quadratum, she wonders. Had the ( nameless star ) sent her back home to Insomnia by mistake or had she been led astray?
Despite the familiar scenery before her, Stella could not shake away the uncomfortable feeling that something was oddly different about this world—something that made her feel as if she simply did not belong. Before she could delve into the matter further, a voice from the shadows interrupts her train of thought and breaks the unnerving silence of the slumbering city.
And so, the night unveils its secrets to her ; the ghostly luminescence of the moon reveals a young man of shimmering silver hair and eyes a unique shade of crimson and azure. He was beautiful, she thought at first glance—so hauntingly beautiful that she could not help but be reminded of him.
It is unclear however whether the mysterious @verumking was friend or foe, but he showed no hostility as he made his innocent query, and so she responds by letting down her guard momentarily in return.
“ —— I don’t believe we have met before. ” Stella answers truthfully, wondering if perchance he had mistaken her appearance for another under the bleak, starless sky. “ And you are…? ”