East

The east side of the city is the very heart of Sacrosanct - it's unique skyline is a clash between modern sky rises and small Victorian-inspired storefronts. In the heart of downtown, the sleek colored glass buildings reign supreme though their old-world roots can be seen in the most peculiar places from the lamp post styled electric street light to the stone sidewalks. The old world architecture slowly returns the further from downtown you travel, however. It's here that magic thrives, it hums in every stone and can be felt in every breath. Often, newcomers to the city may become overwhelmed by such sensations but, eventually, it becomes an ever-present feeling that's hardly noticed.

What You'll Find Here

City Creek Center
Dark Hunter Department
Inner Sanctum
Red on the Water
Starlight Tower

City Creek Center

The City Creek Center is an upscale open-air shopping center centered in the heart of downtown Sacrosanct. With its numerous fountains, foliage-lined walkways, and bubbling streams, City Creek Center offers three blocks of chic boutiques, delicious dining, and the newest showrooms.

Dark Hunter Department

The City of Sacrosanct's Dark Hunter Department's primary concern is the safety of all of Sacrosanct's residences. Their public safety responsibilities include code enforcement and supernatural crime prevention. The Sacrosanct Dark Hunter's Department follows the directions of the International Dark Hunter Council and serves as a local point of contact for any Dark Hunters working within the Council's ranks.

Inner Sanctum

The Inner Sanctum is an independently's owned specialty coffee company and cafe with a singular focus: quality. A hidden gem on the side streets of the busy downtown, the Inner Sanctum source's the world's finest beans and local treats. From it's delectable pastries to the exquisite latte art, the Inner Sanctum is dedicated to both its craft and the customer's experience. With beans roasted in house and every cup prepared by the best baristas, you will never be disappointed at the Inner Sanctum.

Owner Alexander Macedonia

Barista Alexis Wilde

Red on the Water

Nestled in a pleasant alcove that is but a stone's throw away from the dazzling labyrinth of downtown, Red on the Water is a spectacle in its own right. Renovated in the style of a classic Irish pub with a dash of modern flair befitting the city that boasts it, this up-and-coming venue is the perfect place to snag an impeccably prepared home-cooked meal and enjoy the city's most impressive collection of brews from Ireland and beyond. You and your guests are sure to be mesmerized and invigorated by the energetic offerings of the live Celtic band to be found here every weekend.
Home of: Elysium

Owner Isolt Marcello

Co-Owner Damon Marcello
Waitress Yumi Chizue

Starlight Tower

With one hundred floors and a 125-foot spire, the Starlight Tower rises high above the Sacrosanct skyline. More than just a landmark, the Starlight Tower offers a unique mix of restaurants, shops, and offices spaced throughout the building. Organized into nine verticle zones, each of which features a sky lobby and a light-filled garden atrium which merge the upscale interior with a faux landscaped exterior setting.

What You'll Find Here

Crash Choir Records
Pentagram
Ellington Enterprise

you can still be what you want to


Posted on December 18, 2016 by isolt griffin
East

isolt griffin

I'm more alive than I've ever been


It takes everything, every shard of self control to which she might lay claim, for Isolt not to allow her fingers to brush against the flesh of what she is sure is naught more than her mind's darkly-impressive personification of the depthless sorrow that has crippled her of late. If she is correct there will be nothing for her fingers to caress, there will be no warmth of flesh that she may allow her arms to wrap around. There would only be, could only be, the shadows and dust that were her constant companion these days. What a cruel comfort it was indeed, to lay eyes upon her most trusted and cherished companion for what surely would prove to be the final time, to be able to utter his name and, should the strength not abate, impart upon him her final goodbye. To bid him a loving farewell so that the ether might finally usher him onwards, his handsome face and brooding smile to exist only in the storybook of her memory.

Her name upon the lips of this phantom is a rapier to Isolt's ailing heart, a wince pinching its way unto her features and for a moment her eyes fall for she cannot bring herself to look upon him as he speaks to her. Hardly does she hear the words that he offers, instead attempting to only questionable avail to have herself rise and simply leave this specter, to walk away and search for peace in the darkened hallways of her establishment. Peace she knew without the barest shard of doubt that she would not find, not so soon. And then... she feels a hand skate ever so gently upon the supple flesh of her cheek. Quickly does a single hand rise to meet the one laid upon her, chilled fingers placed upon ones that emanate such heat that Isolt's eyes are quickly drawn once again to the specter of her lost compatriot. It is, though her mind fights the implications bred of impossibility, his hand, his heat. It was him. She knows not how this was possible, but Isolt was certain that Tetradore sat before her, weary and ailing... but present nonethless. The realization draws the tendrils of crimson tears from her lids, a sob escaping her for she is capable of choking it back no longer as she folds her arms about him in a tender caress so as not to amplify his pain. Her fingers move to curl within his hair, to craddle his jawline as she draws apart from him only enough to place her lips upon his cheek.

"Tet," she says again, her own vocal cords perhaps as rusted with disuse as his own. "What... how...," she struggles to formulate the words, to articulate the inquiries that beg for explanation. The young woman yearns to say nothing and everything all in the same moment, to know the details of his whereabouts for the past fortnight and yet part of her wishes not to speak of any of it and simply to hold him close for fear that if she did not she would surely lose him. However, curiosity is, as it always had been, Isolt's greatest vice. "What happened to you? I heard about Frost, I heard about the fight and how you...." For a moment the vampire queen cannot bring herself to continue, a trail of crimson ushering tears anew upon the pallor of her cheek. "Everyone said... Damon told me that... you died. They said that he killed you. People said you died and then I couldn't find you. I looked, Tet, I looked everywhere I could think of but I couldn't find you." This, it would seem, is but all she is capable of mustering as a single hand rises to cover her mouth and muffle the sobs that set the entirety of her lithe frame atremble.

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