[id: new scene, outdoors, night. wide shot from the porch of courtley manor as carmilla beings approaching the house up the walk. a pair of narration boxes in the upper left and lower right corners of the panel with quoted text in comic sans continue the speech of the offscreen male vampire: “she’ll kill you as soon as look at you, so leave all the talking to me. i have always known how best to handle her moods, even though i’ve never been able to read her thoughts.” /end id]
People, places and things far too threatening and dangerous for me as my adventure days and survival skills evaporated decades ago.