Lucy Westenra awoke as if from a coma, one moment she was having a dream about a prospective suitor and the next, without warning, she started to stir. Her eyes opened and she stared around confused. Trying to place her surroundings was no use, but where was she?
Then it hit her. Mina had been stabbed! a man had betrayed her and, but how could he? She was awake so perhaps it didn't happen after all. But she knew that it had happened and pretending it hadn't was useless. But vampires weren't real, were they? So why was she feeling so hungry and the only thing she wanted right now was blood?
She got up gingerly from the hard, tiled floor but it was so dark in there that she was unable to see where she was.
Just as she had decided to explore, she heard footsteps coming from the floor above and waited.
The footsteps continued and then the door opened, she moved away instinctively, perhaps in anticipation of more attacks.
