Dreams

Dracula!

Invited to Dracula's castle. Very ornate, complex, dangerous. The labyrinthine dungeon is a death trap, full of mechanical pitfalls and pitch black mazes, complete with precision movable walls. His crypt is a small fortress in itself. Impossible to single-handedly defeat him. Try to use mirrors and surprise him but this fails. We infiltrate a corporation run by his descendants, something like that. Perhaps they are just charmed victims. At night, huddled naked beneath woolen blankets, we plot new strategies. We separate into two groups the next day; one girl and I, two men and one women in another. We learn to use crossbows and shields, and we learn how to run really fast. There is really nothing as terrifying as wandering a stone corridor, ¼ of a mile underground, knowing that the bloody bastard is just patiently waiting somewhere nearby, waiting to kill. Predictable and trite, yes, but that does not diminish the terror.