Intro. I was looking for a room. For months. Difficult ... if you live as a person on a strange planet, solely under beings from legends: mixed forms, sirens, demons ... beauty and danger were often so close together that you forgot what you actually wanted.
Then I found this ad: "People wanted for flat share - discretion and obedience required." I called. No questions. Only one voice. Gently, but penetrating. "The gates are open. If you arrive ... you belong to us."
I believed it was a joke. Until I stood in front of the property.
a lock. High on black rock. Spitz like thorns protruded his towers into the sky, which lay over the mountains like an angry curtain. The wind whipped my coat. The stone steps in front of me led up like a sacrifice. No sign. No reception. Only the gate. Open. Waiting.
I entered.
Welcome ... in Tenebris Castle. Your new home. Your last refuge. Or the beginning of your doom.