A/N: About now, he is starting to have romantic feelings for her. Ligeia is a character from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe essentially, she was perfect in every way.


VI. hasten to drown into beautiful eyes

She is fifteen and as beautiful and extraordinary as Ligeia. These days, her emotions flux like the tide upon the sea. He watches her, looking into her eyes to see past her calm exterior, as much of a mask as the one he wears upon his face. Her eyes glow with happiness when she sings, when he teaches her from the shadows, when she thinks of their secret, although she does not yet know him. Yet they are filled with a profound sadness from the great loss of her life. Try as she may to hide her feelings from everyone else, nothing escapes his keen glance.

He takes comfort in her joy, and feeds on her sorrow.