The Crimson Veil
Somewhere deeper in the castle, the violin began again—low, mournful, impossibly human.
I followed.
The sound led me through a vaulted passage to a door bound in dark iron. I pushed; it opened at a sigh. The library stretched beyond, full of books climbing the walls, ladders poised like conspirators. On the central table lay a single sheet of paper. Written in a hand far more elegant than the letter’s, it read:
For Miss Blackthorne. Begin anywhere. Some doors open both ways.
“Dracula?” I whispered.
No answer—only the violin, closer now, coming from behind the far wall.
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