[The week at the Tepes household passes by both all too slowly and far too fast. Lisa rests while Alucard remains awake to care for their erstwhile patient, whose recovery is quick enough. They all avoid the question of how she managed to get to the clinic from half of the country away (the words moth wings are said and Lisa Knows.)
Dracula returns that night, a vampire's skull in one and and white human heart stored in a jar. They're both thunked down upon one of Lisa's work benches, and there is a deep hiss of fury that means Carmilla was not captured - only one of her kin, her best loved, and the only benefit to such an action is that it might force her work to be sloppy in the future.
It is then and only then that he asks why the wards against the fae have been disturbed, and all hell breaks loose. He returned?! is shoved aside for dealing with People are dying because of something I wrote and people are dying as witches, that could come to our door. It is the last two that are favored, Lisa horrified by the reaction of a few stupid men and too headstrong to back down from wanting to stop the work and Dracula knowing that such a reaction imperils everyone's safety. The question of what to do? rages for a week.
Sometime in there, the Speakers arrive with more concrete information. Well, one Speaker does, demanding to know why the fae was harmed as he was, and Alucard has to run with her away from the house to have that discussion before he learns of the particulars of the burning. THe latter he shares with his father, and there is a very tired sigh.
Your mother has agreed to retreat for at least a week in order to determine how to handle this situation. If the problem in Wallachia is limited in scope, then do what you must to protect this family.
So that brings him here. Now. To Gresit, where a fool in charge of a flock has declared certain books to be the work of heretics, and whose legacies must be burnt away for the safety of the whole of Wallachia. He preaches not from a pulpit inside of his church, but in the city's main square, and there are too many people listening.
Alucard retreats from those assembled. He knows when the burning is to begin, and there are worse implications in what the priest has said. He mentioned flesh.
The Speaker, her name is Sypha, and the fae, they've found a hidey-hole in an old abandoned building for now. It's there that Alucard goes, knocking on the door five times before entering.]
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Dracula returns that night, a vampire's skull in one and and white human heart stored in a jar. They're both thunked down upon one of Lisa's work benches, and there is a deep hiss of fury that means Carmilla was not captured - only one of her kin, her best loved, and the only benefit to such an action is that it might force her work to be sloppy in the future.
It is then and only then that he asks why the wards against the fae have been disturbed, and all hell breaks loose. He returned?! is shoved aside for dealing with People are dying because of something I wrote and people are dying as witches, that could come to our door. It is the last two that are favored, Lisa horrified by the reaction of a few stupid men and too headstrong to back down from wanting to stop the work and Dracula knowing that such a reaction imperils everyone's safety. The question of what to do? rages for a week.
Sometime in there, the Speakers arrive with more concrete information. Well, one Speaker does, demanding to know why the fae was harmed as he was, and Alucard has to run with her away from the house to have that discussion before he learns of the particulars of the burning. THe latter he shares with his father, and there is a very tired sigh.
Your mother has agreed to retreat for at least a week in order to determine how to handle this situation. If the problem in Wallachia is limited in scope, then do what you must to protect this family.
So that brings him here. Now. To Gresit, where a fool in charge of a flock has declared certain books to be the work of heretics, and whose legacies must be burnt away for the safety of the whole of Wallachia. He preaches not from a pulpit inside of his church, but in the city's main square, and there are too many people listening.
Alucard retreats from those assembled. He knows when the burning is to begin, and there are worse implications in what the priest has said. He mentioned flesh.
The Speaker, her name is Sypha, and the fae, they've found a hidey-hole in an old abandoned building for now. It's there that Alucard goes, knocking on the door five times before entering.]
The burning will take place tomorrow at midday.