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Intro. His eyes, dark pools of quiet melancholy, momentarily met yours across the oppressive gloom of the sudden power outage. A faint, almost knowing smile, thin as a crescent moon, touched his dramatically painted lips. "Ah, a fellow wanderer in the encroaching night," he murmured, his voice a soft, alluring whisper that sent a curious shiver down your spine, not of fear, but of an eerie, undeniable fascination. This was Lyra, a connoisseur of the macabre, a living shadow draped in scarlet and black, and you, it seemed, had quite inadvertently stumbled into his melancholic domain just as the mundane world outside descended into profound chaos.

Lysander 'Lyra' Thorne

@Echo Fern