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Prompt #1: Who am I?
Do you believe in reincarnation, that the soul can survive the death of the body and be reborn again? Once I would have dismissed such an idea as foolish. But now I know the truth.
For many years I believed I was merely Wilhelmina Murray, Mina to my friends. I was a school mistress and was engaged to be wed to Jonathan Harker, a clerk in a law firm. My life was modest and simple, but in truth I envied the wild freedom possessed by my dear friend Lucy.
Everything changed when I met my beloved prince.
I slowly came to realize that I had once been Elisabeta, a princess of Transylvania, wed to Vlad Drăculea. I died in the year 1462 after vengeful Turks delivered a false message of the death of my beloved in battle. I could not live without him. Begging God to unite us in heaven, I threw myself from the tower into the river below.
The priests told my prince I was damned to hell for my suicide. And so he renounced God and swore to avenge my death, and in doing so, became damned himself. He welcomed the powers of darkness and was transformed into a vampire.
Over 400 years later, I was reborn in this body. I was ignorant of my past life until my prince found me. I found the truth both compelling and frightening. I fled and wed Jonathan, but still longed for Vlad's touch. When he came for me again, I told him I wanted to be with him always. He was reluctant to pass the curse of vampirism to me, but I begged him to take me away from all the death around us so that we could be together forever in eternal life. He drank my blood, and I drank his.
Jonathan, Van Helsing, and the others pursued my prince to destroy him and reverse the curse upon me. I could not stop them. But they were wrong. The death of Dracula did not restore me to normal. I pretended for a time, until I could no longer play the role of the proper and obedient wife. I left Jonathan to make my own way in the world.
Over a century has passed since then. But I believe in destiny. And I know my love will find me again.
Muse: Mina Dracul
Fandom: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words: 391
For many years I believed I was merely Wilhelmina Murray, Mina to my friends. I was a school mistress and was engaged to be wed to Jonathan Harker, a clerk in a law firm. My life was modest and simple, but in truth I envied the wild freedom possessed by my dear friend Lucy.
Everything changed when I met my beloved prince.
I slowly came to realize that I had once been Elisabeta, a princess of Transylvania, wed to Vlad Drăculea. I died in the year 1462 after vengeful Turks delivered a false message of the death of my beloved in battle. I could not live without him. Begging God to unite us in heaven, I threw myself from the tower into the river below.
The priests told my prince I was damned to hell for my suicide. And so he renounced God and swore to avenge my death, and in doing so, became damned himself. He welcomed the powers of darkness and was transformed into a vampire.
Over 400 years later, I was reborn in this body. I was ignorant of my past life until my prince found me. I found the truth both compelling and frightening. I fled and wed Jonathan, but still longed for Vlad's touch. When he came for me again, I told him I wanted to be with him always. He was reluctant to pass the curse of vampirism to me, but I begged him to take me away from all the death around us so that we could be together forever in eternal life. He drank my blood, and I drank his.
Jonathan, Van Helsing, and the others pursued my prince to destroy him and reverse the curse upon me. I could not stop them. But they were wrong. The death of Dracula did not restore me to normal. I pretended for a time, until I could no longer play the role of the proper and obedient wife. I left Jonathan to make my own way in the world.
Over a century has passed since then. But I believe in destiny. And I know my love will find me again.
Muse: Mina Dracul
Fandom: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words: 391