"Ohh." "My name is Lisa." "I am from the Village of Lupu." "I want to be a doctor." "You bang on my front door because you want to daub chicken blood on peasants." "Don't mistake me for a witch." "Everybody out there already does that." "but..." "I need to know more. and all the stories say the man who lives here has secret knowledge. and I do not get many visitors." "What have you to trade Lisa from Lupu?" "Perhaps I could help you relearn some manners. and you haven't offered me a drink or even to take my coat." "What if I took a drink from you? and garlic in superstitious fear?" "I might have eaten some roasted garlic earlier." "Was that rude?" "I-it was all I had left. or being some muttering wise woman cheating people with boiled nettles and entrails." "I want to heal people." "I want to learn." "Will you help me?" "You are definitely different to most humans I have met in recent times. or stop putting them on sticks." "I gave that up a long time ago." "Where is Lupu Village?" "You don't travel much." "I can travel." "This entire structure is a traveling machine." "But... you don't." "Do you?" "Maybe you should." "The world is changing." "like people do." "You might like it. and you offer for me to walk the earth like an ordinary peasant the true science." "Ohh." "My." "They won't be peasants anymore if you teach them." "scared lives if they have real medicine." "They won't be superstitious if they learn how the world really works." "Why should I do that?" "To make the world better." "and I'll start with you." "I think I might like you." "Bishop?" "I saw them with my own eyes." "thin as paper." "Lightning." "Strange weeds and tools." "Witch's things. none had such a collection." "And it had to come to this?" "Mayor." "Lisa Tepes of Lupu was so far gone that she just couldn't see that it was all given to her by Satan." "you know." "of course." "I-I'd never think to practice such things." "The Archbishop would prefer that life in Wallachia" "Mayor." "Simple." "Pure." "Good." "Don't hurt them!" "They don't understand!" "Who's she talking to? for a witch." "Perhaps I'll say a prayer for her." "A small one." "but... if you can hear... they don't know what they're doing." "Be better than them." "Please!" "Are you Mr. Tepes?" "She talked about you." "What happened?" "Where is my wife?" "Ohh." "The Bishop took her." "he said." "They're burning her at the stake." "your wife." "A good doctor." "It's not right what happened." "Where are they holding her?" "The cathedral?" "Oh." "sir." "Sh-she'll be dead by now." "What?" "I couldn't be there." "I don't care what they say." "I won't take joy in that woman being killed by the Church." "I'm here remembering her instead. then live as a man." "Travel as a man." "She said you were traveling." "I was." "The way men do." "Slowly." "No more. she who loved you humans and cared for your ills." "Take your family and leave Wallachia tonight." "and do not look back... for no more do I travel as a man." "Ohh!" "Ah." "There." "Quite a show." "Drinks?" "I should minister to the Archbishop." "to be honest." "eh? serving God in His true house and all that." "to be honest." "Really?" "There's so much left to be done on earth." "Wallachia could be God's own country had I but time to burn out all the evil that hides here." "What have you done?" "Satan!" "What have you done to my wife?" "In nomine Patris et Filii... and you will tell me why this thing has happened to my wife." "God!" "Dracula! a story made up by heretics!" "She... she's a witch. and the one thing that justified humanity's stench upon this planet." "You are not real." "You are a fiction that justified the practice of black magic!" "A fiction!" "You take my wife and deny I even exist!" "Wallachians." "You have one year to make your peace and remove any marks you have made upon the land. and then I'll wipe all human life from the land of Wallachia. so I will take from you everything you have" "and everything you have ever been." "One year." "One year!" "It will take me one year to summon an army from the guts of Hell itself!" "No." "no?" "That woman was the only reason on earth for me to tolerate human life!" "Then find the one who did the deed. and many thousands of people just as innocent as her will suffer and die." "There are no innocents!" "Not anymore! we won't behave like animals anymore." "I won't let you do it. but I won't let you commit genocide." "Ahh." "For twenty years have I served you and God as the Archbishop to Targoviste Cathedral." "Yet never before have I felt the love of God shine so upon this great city. many of us suffered a vision during the God-willed punishment of a witch in our midst." "The devil himself came to us and threatened us with doom in one year." "here we are." "The devil lied." "Why should we be surprised?" "Do we not know the devil for a liar?" "Do we not know his works to be illusion?" "Of course we do. living as if cradled in the love of God." "One year." "I gave you one year to make your peace with your God." "And what do you do?" "Celebrate the day you killed my wife. while I assembled my armies." "And now I bring your death." "You had your chance." "Kill everything you see." "Kill them all. go forth into the country." "Go now." "Go to all the cities of Wallachia:" "Arges!" "Severin!" "Gresit!" "Chilia!" "Enisara!" "Go now and kill." "Kill for my love!" "Kill for the only true love I ever knew." "Kill for the endless lifetime of hate before me." "It's my goat." "I been tending goats since I was four years old." "right." ""And I'd know if my goat was in love with you." "For God's sake." ""I know your goat's in love with me." "Bosha?" "So I says how!" "don't she?" "And that's when you hit him." "Right across the eyes with a shovel." "And now the headman says I have to pay the bastard money because he went blind." "Not fair." "You didn't think he was gonna go blind fucking a goat with mange?" "too." "too." "But what am I supposed to do fucked within an inch of its life and a naked man with blood and straw all over his peck?" "Hit him with a shovel!" "Fucking right I hit him with a shovel!" "More ale for me and my cousin Kob!" "Brother. but you came out of my aunt." "Don't make me get my shovel." "Anyone else while I'm pouring?" "One over here." "Ale!" "For Christ's sake!" "Piter!" "We was just wondering if you'd spotted any attractive sheep on your ride out." "mate?" "sweeping west!" "Shit!" "You think they'll reach us?" "I think they might pass us by." "I don't know." "I hope." "I'm told they're closing on Gresit." "Serves 'em right." "Stuck-up bastards." "come on." "No." "doesn't it?" "The great houses of Gresit." "Vlad Dracula?" "An old family." "The capital?" "All run by the great houses." "And they're not even the worst." "The Belmonts?" "We should have killed all the Belmonts." "Shit." "Frederator!"