You’ll think me mad… but, one night I wandered through the woods near there and I swore I saw a shadow crawling along the high tower right before dawn.

It began with the missing animals, I lost one of my coach’s horses even, then… then the children, the women, men.  A few turned up, drained of blood and some missing limbs… those who could leave did, but some stayed, too stubborn, too poor or in hopes they could find their loved ones.

You may resume  your little brawl after I’ve made my deliberation! Now…Falsworth… years ago I made you a servant and now you parade yourself as a vampiric sire to me to award you some stadus.  Worse still, you made yourself this mockery by stealing my blood? And what have you done with these deceptions that I allowed? Locked yourself in a castle to try and discover the secret of the vampire…