The Dream... (F for Dom M character, mysterious gothic romance fun in store)

[LamentingQuill]

Listen to the music while you read the dream description. Very important for atmosphere



For months, ever since her twenty first birthday... Aaria Sanderson has been having the strangest eerie reoccurring dream...

-the reoccurring dream-

https://youtu.be/STIsEKfZLsQ

It's always the same... there is a dimly lit ballroom, there is an eerie melody on the air... with no musicians or even any instruments in sight anywhere...

There is no one... she is standing alone in the middle of the ballroom, garbed in a beautiful ballgown of days long past... she feels like she is expecting someone, waiting most anxiously... but she does not know for whom she waits or why...

Suddenly, she feels a presence behind her... a powerful and compelling presence, so alluring that resisting the urge to turn around is impossible...

She comes face to face with a man dressed in the same period of attire she is... this man is so beautiful, gazing into his eyes leaves her feeling mesmerized... she knows this man, she is certain she knows him, but from where? Who is this breathtakingly gorgeous man?

The beautiful and almost hauntingly eerie melody begins to grow louder, closer... and then the man is extending a hand to Aaria...

With no hesitation at all, she places her hand in his and he sweeps her into a slow sensual waltz... he holds her so close, those beautiful sorrowful eyes gazing intensely into her own... he leans in then, she can feel the velvety softness of his lips brushing feather light against the shell of her ear and then she hears him whisper...

“Come back to me...”

-end dream-

One morning while drinking her coffee at the local coffee shop like she did every single morning before work, Aaria is stunned and shocked to find an article in the paper about a secluded long abandoned mansion up north from where she lived... the pictures included... she would feel absolutely numb with shock as she sees the outside of a mansion that looks far more familiar to her than a place she'd never set foot in should... and a picture of an intact but dusty and cobweb covered ballroom that she instantly recognized at the ballroom from her dream...

Without thinking twice, unable to resist the overwhelming need to go... Aaria skips work and packs an overnight bag into her jeep, driving all through the night...



I would absolutely LOVE to brainstorm further into this idea with my partner and perhaps hear their idea about who the mystery man really is

My idea regarding Aaria, is that perhaps she is reincarnated and her birthday coincides with the night her previous incarnation died... at the age of twenty one. Her turning twenty one in this life has awoken whatever lingers in the mansion... and him...

What is YC? Is he a spirit of some kind? Was he too reincarnated in some fashion?  If that's so, how is he reaching out to Aaria via dreams? Or perhaps... is he mixed up with something like necromancy or vampirism? Is he good? Or... is he bad? Let's hash that out!

PM me if you're interested!