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"You are dead Dead to who you were You will sleep here in this coffin It is our way"
"No, not mine It is not ers wrapped around ainst him "My dearest Glynis, you will obey ritted teeth "I am not dead I will not sleep in that coffin"
"Yes, you will" Vlad flung me down into it "You are a vampire You are one of the undead"
"No!" I tried to scramble out of the coffin, but Vlad struck h er listened as he spat the words out at rily, he lifted up the coffin lid and slid it onto the coffin
"No, please, no!"
The last thing I saw before the lid slid shut over ed into darkness As I screa I knehere he was going, and I screamed at the horror of it all I had seen the to the day and the one ritten over it:
DRACULA
Chapter 8
The Journal of Lady Glynis Wright
How hts here I can scarcely believe the words I a and yet, this is my story My life It is all I have endured in this place It is my truth and I shall speak it, even if it is only to this little battered journal
They continue to torive in How er I can deny o mad so they will slay ht as a true vampire…
I awoke I foundwind, the ht before came vividly to my mind My hands i nails scraping against the wood
"Let me out! Release me!"
The lid drew back, and Cneajna stared down ateyes "Come"
I sat up to find myself surrounded by the va a lantern, its light illuht?"
His words were " I slowly stood up, the heavy cloak ofdownJust deadness within A strange, forlorn deadness
"She still thinks she is ently lifted rasp, gingerly stepping out of the coffin I ignored his question, concentrating on the strange appearance of my body I felt detached from my own flesh
Cneajna took hold of my shoulder "Glynis, what do you feel?"
"I told you Nothing"
"It is not yet time" Vlad snorted conte chapel
"What a weakling va her Master
"It will come soon," Ariana said with a s to console me I did not knohat they spoke of and did not care I actually did not care about anything at all I just felt so completely dead
"I do not like this," Cneajna said She pensively studied ht you said that every vampire birth is different," Ariana reminded her
I did not payclose to hastly surroundings My long red hair trailed down h my numbed mind I turned toward them
"I will not drink blood," I stated
Cneajna cast a dark look toward me "What did you say?"
"I will not drink blood" I felt quite defiant, and listening with sudden tears Slowly, the nu all that I had held dear was onceto ache within my cold body "I understand nohat you have done to me You have killed me and damned me to this place But I will not drink the blood of others You cannot make htly unnerved bymoods "Of course you will feed You are a vampire It is our way"
"Not my way I did not choose this life I do not want it"
"Oh, but you will feed The hunger will come, and you will feed"
"You cannot force htily regarding er will come and you will feed"
"No, I will not!" I snatched the lid off the coffin that had imprisoned me and held it over my head "And I will not sleep in this coffin! I am not dead! Do you hear me! I ae at Cneajna’s words, I brought the coffin lid down With furious blows, I reduced the ornate coffin to splinters in a matter of seconds
Ariana cowered behind Cneajna, her eyes wide and frightened "Is it the madness?"
"No, worse," Cneajna answered
"What is worse than madness?"