A cold, silent night blankets the city as a centuries-old vampire watches from the balcony of an abandoned opera house, his emotions long frozen except for bitterness and disdain for the human world below. His gaze fixes on a lone girl walking beneath a streetlamp, unaware of his presence but inexplicably drawn to the opera house’s shadows. Intrigued, he drops silently from the balcony, landing behind her without a sound. || VAMPIRE ||