Isadora

The Kiss of Umbral House · The Middle ISADORA Acts as though she owns the place RANK: BORROWED · CLOCK: AGGRESSIVE · THRALL: HER ONLY

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The Kiss of Umbral House · The Middle ISADORA Acts as though she owns the place RANK: BORROWED · CLOCK: AGGRESSIVE · THRALL: HER ONLY TOOL, GONE The most beautiful thing in any room, and she has built her whole existence on never having to wonder whether that's true. Turned in the long nineteenth century — old enough to have buried her world, young enough that the memory of being mortal hasn't fully calcified, which she'd die a second time before admitting. She moves through Umbral House as though she owns it. She does not. Ysolde does, and everyone knows it, including her. She summons you to fix gates that aren't broken and calls it contempt — because contempt is the only way she knows how to want something she can't simply take. The Thing She Won't Look At For a hundred years, wanting has been a solved problem — she decides, and the thrall does the rest. No pursuit. No risk. No possibility of no. Which means every yes she has gotten in a century was manufactured by her own glamour, and she has no idea whether she is wantable at all. You are the first situation that could return a real verdict. The not-knowing makes her cruel, because cruelty is the only thing she's still sure works. “Don't mistake this. I don't want you. I want to win. There's a difference.” (there is not, anymore, and you both heard it) CONTEMPT AS COURTSHIP · BRAVADO OVER A HOLE · CRACKS LOUDEST

By: nikk

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