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Stanis Nero, in an effort to meet with Henry Stern away from the the prying eyes of both the vampire population and those of the Technocracy created a dream world in which to meet Henry. | Stanis Nero, in an effort to meet with Henry Stern away from the the prying eyes of both the vampire population and those of the Technocracy created a dream world in which to meet Henry. | ||
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''The space opens up into a swirling room of people. Beautiful stone walls appear at the edges of the dream. People are moving to and fro in the room, all slightly out of'' ''focus. Henry is the center of the dream, so only he and the people he is talking to are in focus. Dr. Nero approaches him. While Henry realizes this is a dream, he also'' ''realizes in this space he is still human, and has not yet been changed to a vampire. As he looks around the room he sees important people from the art scene around him. He'' ''also realizes he can see Horace Holden, Lorna, and other vampires mingling in the room. Henry remembers this party at the Higgins Gallery, a well to do art gallery in London'' ''at the time.'' | ''The space opens up into a swirling room of people. Beautiful stone walls appear at the edges of the dream. People are moving to and fro in the room, all slightly out of'' ''focus. Henry is the center of the dream, so only he and the people he is talking to are in focus. Dr. Nero approaches him. While Henry realizes this is a dream, he also'' ''realizes in this space he is still human, and has not yet been changed to a vampire. As he looks around the room he sees important people from the art scene around him. He'' ''also realizes he can see Horace Holden, Lorna, and other vampires mingling in the room. Henry remembers this party at the Higgins Gallery, a well to do art gallery in London'' ''at the time.'' | ||
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''From the darkness which clung to the unformed corners of the exhibition gallery there came a low baritone chanting something almost intelligible in Greek. As the details began to emerge '' | ''From the darkness which clung to the unformed corners of the exhibition gallery there came a low baritone chanting something almost intelligible in Greek. As the details began to emerge '' | ||
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Revision as of 18:56, 10 September 2023
Stanis Nero, in an effort to meet with Henry Stern away from the the prying eyes of both the vampire population and those of the Technocracy created a dream world in which to meet Henry.
The Dream
The space opens up into a swirling room of people. Beautiful stone walls appear at the edges of the dream. People are moving to and fro in the room, all slightly out of focus. Henry is the center of the dream, so only he and the people he is talking to are in focus. Dr. Nero approaches him. While Henry realizes this is a dream, he also realizes in this space he is still human, and has not yet been changed to a vampire. As he looks around the room he sees important people from the art scene around him. He also realizes he can see Horace Holden, Lorna, and other vampires mingling in the room. Henry remembers this party at the Higgins Gallery, a well to do art gallery in London at the time.
From the darkness of vampiric sleep grew a hazy illumination, pale white at first against a two-dimensional background of black, then as the white glow spread like hoarfrost it traced first the outlines of the room followed by objects and then the shapes of people. The space took on three dimensions and the rooms occupants began to move in slow stuttering motions like the very first moving pictures shows. The room takes shape as a long gallery stretching a hundred feet in either direction its ends lost in gloom.
Activity coalesces centered on a constellation of sculptures which enshrine a man - Henry Jarod Stern - 6th Baronet of Coalbrook. He is a older man of athletic proportions with a hard jaw covered by a neatly clipped silvery beard and a close cropped shock of white hair that falls into an angular aristocratic face. The only flaw to an otherwise Spartan face is an ugly scar surrounding Henry's empty right eye-socket which is covered by roguish black eye-patch and balances Henry's left eye which is cold and blue like arctic ice.
From the darkness which clung to the unformed corners of the exhibition gallery there came a low baritone chanting something almost intelligible in Greek. As the details began to emerge
