And Binding With Briars My Joys And Desires

Vergil first sees her the spring of his eighteenth year; the winter snow falls in mournful drifts the day he leaves. And even now, twenty-three years after her death, a part of him mourns for her still. In which Vergil is hit with hallucinatory demon venom on the twenty-third anniversary of his lover's death, and finds his aching memory of her embodied at last.