For centuries, he has walked the line between shadow and sustenance, an ancient vampire adrift in the vast, indifferent city, his only solace found in decay and isolation. Haunted by a love lost to time, he expects nothing but the endless cycle of hunger and solitude. A lonely vampire, haunted by millennia of loss, finds his numb existence shattered by an unexpected connection to a mortal woman. And a nurse, saved by darkness, finds herself drawn towards the terrifying abyss. "The Solace of Decay" explores the fragile line between life and undeath, the devastating weight of isolation, and the tragic beauty that can bloom, however briefly, even in the deepest darkness