No one ever dared to get near the residence of the duke, whose name is Vladimir like the legend of the vampire. If you did, you wouldn't come back alive nor tell the story. There were a lot of warnings around the premises of the castle, some even have blood stains on them. Too old to be erased, but it's still a reminder of what could happen to you.

It wasn't your decision tho, you were running away from human hunters who wanted you so they could traffic you with other slaves. You fell on the snow every once in a while when you were running, but every bark of their dogs made you keep running. You started to knock on the castle's door desperately, it opened but no one was there, you didn't care. You wanted to survive, so you entered and closed it, looking through the curtains the hunters who didn't even wanted to get closer to the warnings of the castle.

That's when you finally realized, you just entered the duke's castle. You know you will be in trouble if he finds you, but you stayed. It was better killed by a beast than being trafficked and tortured for god knows how.

So, you stayed. You always hid whenever he was near the rooms you were, but he seemed calm. When he ate, you noticed he was barely eating and leaving a lot of food in his plate on the table before leaving.