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How did things go with Count Dracula? Did he have a fine castle? I suppose there will be noto displease hiain See, Glynis, ill ood tiain soon I shall await your response

With eline

And then, to my dismay, I saw a letter with the distinctive red wax seal ireat burden of fear descend upon me For it read:

My dear friend,

Meet ht There is much to discuss

Your Friend,

D

Somehow, he knows I feel it All is doomed and I know not what to do!

The Journal of Lady Glynis Wright

The Castle

23rd of August, 1819

I aht up in my journal now I have reached the point where I shall now record events as they occur Sadly, this does not bring ht, I stood beside Elina on the decaying battlements of the castle The Carpathians spread out before us in all their dark er as sharp as it had been

Vlad has not made an appearance in the chapel for several days None of us has seen him e retire or e rise Of course, I have been off secretly writing inthe lot of them It was not until Elina stood in the ruined chapel and said in a frightened voice, "He is not here" that I realized Vlad wasCneajna and Ariana had woken before us and were not about Alone, we gazed at each other warily

"We should look for hireed

Elina and I searched the castle only to realize he was no longer with us

"When did he leave I wonder?"

She glanced at o At least that is what I assu the castle We should have realized then They always lock the doors and stay ahen he travels"

I s rid of Vlad for awhile I utterly despise him and this was absolutely wonderful "Well, that is fine with me But, why do they not enter to serve us as they do Vlad?"

Elina eyed er will coer"

My eyes greide at the thought of starvation We had fed four nights ago on an unlucky hunter The hunger pangs were already beginning to throb andaway and kneould have to feed soon I realized that without Vlad bringing us some lucklessus starvation I had been so relieved to discover that Vlad was gone I had not realized the full ied froht sky was breathtaking tonight Not one cloud hid the stars fro a lullaby to herself, but when she saw ?"

"We searched the entire castle Every room Every hallway Every hidden roo cases are gone," Elina responded

"I went and peered down at the stables The carriage is gone That is e have not seen hiht he had not the desire to love us," Ariana said softly

"How long will he be gone?" I looked to Elina

"I do not know He cooes like this often We never knohen he will return," she answered, her face drawn and fierce

Ariana began to wail and fell to her knees Sobbing hysterically, she pummeled the floor with her tiny fists "I do not want to starve!"

"He shall return before then," Cneajna said confidently from behind us "He pro with unspoken anger "Why did you not tell us he had left us?"

Elina hissed with anger "How could you keep this from us?"

Ariana just wailed

"He proht There was no reason to worry you"

"He does not always return when he says! He has starved us before! Why did you not ask him to release us to roam the valley below?" Elina’s voice was ripe with fury

"He did not want Glynis to be away from the castle, therefore, none of us could leave"

All three looked at me, and I stepped back "I do not understand any of this"

"Usually, he releases us as far as the valley so we can hunt for ourselves But because you are his new prize, he did not free us this time And ill starve" Elina folded her ar deeply

"He will return He prohtily "I am the First and he would not lie toto starve" Elina brushed past the blonde vampire and disappeared into the darkness of the castle

Cneajna looked down at Ariana, as grunting and sobbing at her feet, then up at h at her blind devotion I could not believe this miserable world Scantfree from the dark moods of Vlad, but now I yearned for his return I was terrified of the hunger slowly blosso within me

"He will return," Cneajna insisted, but her own doubt was creeping into her melodic voice

Ariana mumbled to herself as she crawled across the floor She reached out to Cneajna and grabbed hold of her skirts "Mother, Mother, please, call hi away Crawling on top a pile of rubble, I stared down at the silvery sparkling waters of the river that wove its way through the valley below The cool breeze flowed overbehind er comes, there will be plenty of time for tears

For noait

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