Dracula's daughter

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e, their footsteps echoing off the stone walls. They descended into the

s of bats, wolves, and other creatures of the night. Mother Orphia produced a

facts and relics. There were dusty tomes bound in black leather, strange devices that looked like the

on one wall. The mirror's surface was cloudy and distorted, a

voice low and mysterious. "It shows the bloodlines of the

. She could see her own reflection staring back at her, but it was d

e threads of crimson and gold, weaving together to fo

estors and descendants, the other creatures of the night who shared his bloodli

lia breathed, her eye

thing of beauty and terror. They show us our place in

he knew that she was a part of something much larger than herself,

oodlines, embracing her destiny as a creature of the night. Or she