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What the fuck is going on?
What is this?
Are these Hector's night creatures?
No.
Come on then.
We're under attack?
By night creatures. Hundreds of them.
Well, there's only one person that could be.
We need to get you out of here.
And go where?
Somewhere safe. I can't have you in harm's way.
I'm sorry, Lenore.
I honestly am.
But this is right where I need to be.
Dantalion Presidio.
Hector, what are you doing?
I'm a wizard, remember?
Not to be trusted.
That was a very clever trick that we don't have time for.
Never enough time in the end, is there?
But time enough, I hope.
I don't have much time.
The calculations look correct,
but you want a second gating mark to control the flow.
And don't trust Varney. Good luck.
- If you'll excuse me... - Ah...
I have to go and get killed now.
What the hell was that?
The mirror?
I got it from one of the mad vampire wizards
you keep in the dungeons.
They're really very easily bribed.
I mean, and you know I mean, what did you just do?
Oh. That.
Well, I've been conferring
with fellow scholars on a way to bring Dracula back.
It seemed only fair,
since I got him killed in the first place.
And I laid a few traps in here during the month,
because, well, you never know
when you're going to need a good cage, do you?
You've gone mad.
I've been mad.
This doesn't feel like that.
Maybe I've gone sane.
And here we are.
Hector.
Isaac.
Leave her alone.
Is this not one of Carmilla's ruling council?
If you're here to kill me, kill me.
But leave her alone. She is not the threat here.
Are you the threat, Hector?
No.
Carmilla is.
Isaac, I've taken steps to return Dracula to life.
I've done my part to atone for all that has happened.
I'm done.
Take your revenge.
I hold no malice.
I am not here to kill you.
What?
You and I, Hector, we have been children.
Revenge is for children.
It is our duty to grow up, don't you think?
I...
I've tried to.
Good.
It is time to find our own way.
But I will ask a favor.
Yes?
This place has many of your night creatures.
Command them to stand down.
Ha.
I can't.
Ah.
Yes. Command and control flows through me to Lenore here
and to her friends.
Hold on.
I used debris from broken hammers
to make this while nobody was looking.
I've been putting down fenceposts for an escape channel
all through the castle for weeks.
How far will this channel take me?
All the way up to Carmilla's chambers.
I had to assume I might be running
from the top of the castle one day.
Place your intent upon it.
The command is "Ba'al Initium."
You have been busy.
Well, I needed a way out.
Carmilla intends to actually, literally rule the world,
and I suspect the world would find that bad for its health.
This one stays safe with me.
Carmilla, on the other hand, should probably meet you.
I tend to agree.
But even if this device works,
it would take time to fight through the creatures
you've made for her.
Can I borrow your knife?
I just cut off Carmilla's command and control
over the night creatures.
Makes them easier to pick off.
Thank you.
Just get it done.
Lady.
Fuck you!
He's going to murder Carmilla.
Yes, he is.
But not you.
Or me, it seems.
That was unexpected.
I don't really know what to do next.
Surround me!
Ba'al Initium.
Well done, Hector.
Is that Isaac?
The least interesting man in Dracula's castle.
Hello, Carmilla.
Eat shit!
Is this about Dracula?
Hector's downstairs, if you want someone to kill.
I've spoken to Hector.
Oh. I see.
The humans are sticking together.
I understand you have developed some more ambitions.
I'm nothing but ambition.
I'm a queen.
This world belongs to me...
because the likes of you never knew what to do with it!
I am not sure that is the point of having a world.
What kind of druid bollocks is that?
An opinion I came to after wandering the world
following your destruction of Dracula,
his army and his castle.
I never touched his fucking castle.
So you've personally come to Styria to kill me,
is that it?
I think the world would be a better place without you, yes.
You can't be trusted.
I would always fear you and your ambitions.
So, yes, I'm very much afraid I have to kill you.
Look at you all.
You're not big enough to kill me.
You're nothing.
You don't deserve my blood.
And when you die and go to hell,
I'll be there waiting for you...
with a sharp bloody stick
and the determination to find out
if you can die twice.
I am Carmilla of Styria,
and fuck you!
I win.
Did you feel that too?
Carmilla just died.
What do we do?
The castle is swarming with night creatures.
Hector's monsters?
Not unless he could make hundreds in a few days.
An invasion, and...
and they killed our Carmilla.
Do you think Lenore...?
If Carmilla is dead,
then Lenore certainly died first.
Should we retake the castle?
We don't know what we'd be riding into.
I don't know if I have enough soldiers.
We can try.
But should we?
It's over, isn't it?
No. Not for us.
What are you thinking?
The cities of the west sold me
quite a lot of soldiers to guard Styria in our absence.
I presume they're all dead up there.
In a newly uncertain world,
those cities won't be fussy about where they take
temporary reinforcements from.
It's simple commerce.
And after that?
What's the plan?
What if there isn't a plan?
What if it's just you and I?
I think...
I think I might be all right with that.
Carmilla had plans.
Vampires always have plans, don't we?
Maybe it's just in our nature to overreach,
grasp at too much at once, try to drink everything.
Maybe that's why, in the end,
we win all the battles but always lose the war.
Striga...
you and I?
It's not like we ever really needed anything else.
You and I forever.
We ride west!
Where's your vampire friend?
This structure has a basement. She's down there for the moment.
How is your hand?
I may never play the pipe organ again.
Did you ever?
No, but I might have wanted to.
Do we now ride to aid the return of Dracula?
- No. - What?
No.
But...
I've been working towards this for weeks.
Of course you have.
You feel guilt.
You want redemption.
I want to mend my mistakes.
The mistakes you have suffered for.
That said, Hector,
you had no agency in those events.
You were manipulated.
You were used as a tool for leverage
by those who are truly responsible
for the end of Dracula.
You believe that?
I have had a lot of time
to put it all together and think it all over.
Do you know, I've even been talking to other people?
Actual living people?
Well...
mostly.
You've changed.
I hope so.
I believe you have as well.
Let him sleep, Hector.
We were both mistreated by the human world.
We were both admirers of Dracula's intellect.
We both saw something bigger than ourselves in him.
We both wanted to see the world punished.
We can do more than that.
Dracula earned his rest.
We can and should move forward.
What do you want, Hector?
I want to be left alone...
with Lenore.
I want to read, and make things, and think.
That's all I really want now.
Then you shall have it.
What do you want, Isaac?
I have recently begun to consider the future...
which has been a novelty for me,
because I never really thought I had one.
This is how they get us, Hector.
They convince us that there is no future.
There's only an eternal now...
and the best we can do is survive until dawn
and then do it all again.
That's no way to live.
And I've discovered, to some surprise...
that I am interested in living.
I am interested in building a way to live.
And I think I will start here.
I have come to wonder that perhaps Dracula
did not run things well.
Even before his wife died.
He lived in one long night, and never the future.
I think perhaps he earned his rest...
and that we should not disturb it.
I will instead build something new
on all these old bones.
Something where people can live for a future.
I'm going to live.