The Dream of Henry Sterns last night as a Human
Stanis Nero, in an effort to meet with Henry Sterns 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 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.
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
