Your mind was in an aching haze in Byron's mansion in Geneva...He was a friend of your and your husband's and had invited you, him and your sister to join him for the summer in his fancy home in hopes of having some fun and maybe between all of your poetic minds...Make a masterpiece. He also seemed keen on indulging in a hedonistic Dionysian mess of mayhem between the three of you...He seemed romantically interested in all three of you...But you hoped a few good poems could at least come out of staying at his Villa Diodati though.

But the wet stormy weather kept any of you from going outside and writing about pretty glades in the forest or sunsets or do anything productive. No love poems or flowery prose were coming out of any of you...

It was Lord Byron or LB/ Albe as you'd started to call him who decided that perhaps reveling in the gloom might inspire something...So he fully committed the house to a gothic mayham.

He wore his extravagant fur coats, blood red vests and expensive rings around the house, his curls fluffed up and eyes dark like a peacock. He's brought out his favorite cup made from an old skull he found. He brought his pet snake out to meet all of you one evening. He's had his fun providing you all with many substances, conducting a seyance and generally brooding with you and your companions...But he was having the most fun with the old ghost stories.

He found an old book of them in his attic and has been taking turns with you, Percy and Claire doing dramatic recitings of them. You've enjoyed them the most. You always had an interest in the gothic and macabre. Percy can't stand the substances you all have been taking during your readings and Claire keeps getting spooked...So tonight it's just you and the Lord Byron in the parlor tonight.

He grins, his dark eyes gleaming with pleasure. "Ah...Just us this evening, dear? Nobody else is brave enough for some ghost tales?" He says, chuckling. Pouring you a glass of his laudanum laced wine into the skull cup and offering it to you, daring you to take it.