Hampton, Virginia

November 8, 1850

Several days of research have yielded some hope. If Mary was, in fact, turned into a vampire as I suspect, there is still hope I can save her. My poor Mary will never have a carefree life again, but that’s of little concern to me, being a monster myself I can live with what has become of her. The important thing now is to sever her connection to the worm, and for that, I have to figure out who her grand-sire is.

Under normal circumstances, I would have to kill the original founder of her clan to sever her connection to the worm. However, out of the five grand-sires who were initially born here, only three remained. If she were turned by one of the other two clans which no longer have a leader, that would make my life so much...

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