A Date with the Future
"I certainly didn't expect, four centuries into my service to this Council, to find myself standing witness for a wedding between a Voss and an Ashgrove, genuinely moved by the prospect rather than dreading it as some reckless political gamble."
The music began before Damon could formulate a response, an arrangement blending traditional pack drums with the more formal vampire strings, and he turned toward the pavilion's entrance, breath catching entirely at the sight that greeted him: Elena, in a gown of deep, elegant ivory that caught the winter light like captured moonlight, walking the aisle on her father's arm with a radiant, unguarded joy that made every careful strategic calculation, e