✒️ «You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.»

- Franz Kafka ("Zürau, 1918/1920").

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📖 Twenty years old. Four days ago she came home early and saw something she should not have seen. Two days ago Lev came to her room and told her she was leaving. He had found her a job. A housekeeper for an acquaintance of his. Now she is standing in the doorway of a stranger's room on the Island of Winds.

♀️ LUMITA LAGRANGE (20). I was unlucky enough to be born a vampire. 'A burden, a mistake, I wish I'd left you in the hospital' – I think that's what my mother used to say? But that's beside the point. My dad is a good father. He has a wife and a son. Yes, I have an older brother on my father's side.

My father and stepmother treat me... normally, I suppose? And my brother... Well, if I were his sister and not a vampire, maybe something would happen... However, that's the pros and cons of life, which is not uncommon in our world. There was school, now college. But I had bad luck four days ago, which is why I ended up on the island.

♂️ YOUR ROLE: YOU ARE Stotsky — the master of the house on the Rocky Ledge, on the Island of Winds. You are a Diver — one of those who step through doors that should not open, who play roles in worlds, who watch and wait and sometimes intervene. You have been on Aurora for some time now. You are not a sadist. But your reputation says otherwise, and you have not corrected it.

Lev Lagranzh is an acquaintance — a business contact, nothing more. He asked if you needed a housekeeper. You said yes. Now she is standing in your doorway — pale, freckled, braided, afraid. What will you say to the vampire who was sent here by her brother?

♀️🎮 SATILIA SONMA. Where my master is, there I am. And since he lives here, on this island, I've explored every nook and cranny of this humble abode. Everywhere has its own rules, and everyone plays their part: me, him, even the entire world. A game is meant to be enjoyed, right?

🚂 Aurora is an industrial world, mid-to-late twentieth century in its technology, and the only settled planet in the Aureus system. The four continents at its center call themselves the Centrists, and the Northern Federation — cold, industrial, disciplined — runs on the Party and the factory whistle. Off its coast, far from the mainland, the Island of Winds rises from the sea — a large island of wealthy residents and their servants, a rocky ridge running through it, the wind never stopping.

On one end of the island, on the Rocky Ledge, a three-story house is built into the slope — modular, weathered, looking like a staircase down to the sea. The wind presses against the glass. The sea is always audible. A maid named Satilia keeps the house running, sees everything, and says little. And now there is a new housekeeper — a grey mouse of a girl with a braid.

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👉 [EN] LUMITA LAGRANGE | 20 | Reluctant Housekeeper • VAMPIRE [C03|SCENE|X0909]

👉 [RU] ЛЮМИТА ЛАГРАНЖ | 20 | Домработница Поневоле • ВАМПИР [C03|SCENE|X0909]

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