#romance dump

Tags: Christine Daae/Erik (Phantom of the Opera 1925); just a scene I wrote to make myself happy, SFW romance, this is based off the Lon Chaney Phantom but you do you, I just like ‘em freaky, Björk lyrics, Gaston Leroux, Lerik

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“ …This "Angel" had swooped over her. No, he was a bat in the night. He had held out his hand to her - those hands that conduct and take lead, that play up and down on the smooth necks of violins and on pipe-organ keys so expertly... she shivered watching him play. She could fall apart in those hands. Crooked five fingers aligned themselves perfectly to take her wrists gently in handshake - and did this scare her? It electrified her. Hands that speak power to anything his face would otherwise express... but for that mask. Boney, yet skilled fingers that curl and beckon her to follow him deep into the belly of the opera house. A grave elegance so overpowering…”