#dearkaelsman

[ So noneof my current books actually seem to work for this prompt, BUT I have a very old post from the same meme which neverended up going anywhere. Might as well fix it up and recycle it! Get ready forspooky season in April. Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. That’s right, it’s vampire time. ]

There wasa human there, no doubt of it, and he was furtive, this one, moving in haste,painfully conscious of the fact that he had no right to be where he was. The night was nearly spent, thelast light of the full moon spilling through crumbling arched windows as Nicol swept down the corridor with preternatural speed, his thoughts tuned to their mortalintruder. There would be others, vampires like himself, dispersing into thenight now that the Supreme Council of the great clans had closed. This was nota safe place for outsiders.

ApriliusManor was graceful in its decay, a venerable ruin in the countryside beyond ablindingly modern city. But beneath the stones and beneath the earth, where nohuman had been, was avast, baroque complex of meeting chambers and living spaces for the elite ofthe vampire world. The semicentennial meetings of the great clans had takenplace there since the days when it was no more thana complex of crude caves. However, as many of their people migrated to space,there was growing pressure to move the seat of their ancient government as well.

Luckilyfor their human interloper, the wing in which Nicol sensed his presence wasempty but for themselves and the blind statues that stared out from alcovesalong the walls. Guards should have been called, Nicol knew, but tonight cautious curiosityand a desire to avoid unnecessary bloodshed outweighed protocol. Several of hisfellow clan heirs mocked this sense of mercy as a weakness, an insult to their vampiric nature. However, after nearly 50 years together their words held no sting and were now simply tiresome.

He cameto the top of a curving staircase, lit from behind by an immense stained glass window of roses in full bloom. Scarlet light coated the white of his suit andflowed down the stairs to the floor below.

“Hello?”he called out cautiously. “This buildingisn’t safe.”

// I was going to include some saved posts and profiles as a way of introducing old characters, but… I found them and now I want to burn them.

So instead I’ll just list a few:

Kendrick Addison and his daughter Rosette, Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.

Arvellas, a grouchy yet fashionable elf who probably hates you.

Ulrik Nielsen/Denmark from Axis Powers Hetalia. Best boy; fight me.

Contact Name: Big D (it probably changes all the time)

Contact Image:

Ringtone: Whatever the latest PLANT meme is.