Status Updates From Carmilla

"'Carmilla, yes,' I answered.
'Aye,' he said, 'that is Millarca. The same person who long ago was called Mircalla, Countess Karnstein. Depart from this accursed ground, my poor child, as quickly as you can. Drive to the clergyman's house and stay there till we come. Begone! May you never behold Carmilla more; you will not find her here.'"

"In seeing him a brutal change came over her features. It was an instantaneous and horrible transformation; she made a crouching step backwards. Before I could utter a scream, he struck at her with all his force. She dove under his blow and, unscathed, caught him by the wrist in her tiny grasp. He struggled for a moment to release his arm, but his hand opened, the axe fell to the ground, and the girl was gone."

"Under a narrow, arched doorway, surmounted by one of those demoniacal grotesques in which the cynical and ghastly fancy of old Gothic carving delights, I saw the beautiful face and figure of Carmilla enter the shadowy chapel."

"He apologized for having followed me but said that he could not conscientiously take his leave without a few words more. He told me that he could not be mistaken; no natural disease exhibited the same symptoms; death was already very near. One more assault might extinguish the last spark of vitality which is, every moment, ready to die."

my girl Laura got no clue what gay panic is.

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