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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    What does it mean to give yourself to something dangerous... and love it anyway?

    Ellen has always felt different. Her psychic gifts have brought both terror and exhilaration, but above all, a relentless pull toward darkness. It finally pushes her father to isolate her, leaving her heartbroken and desperately lonely. In her sorrow, she cries out to the void—and He answers.

    This seductive phantom invades her dreams, offering eternal devotion, if only she swears herself to him. Unable to resist, she surrenders, igniting years of passion. He cherishes and understands her as no one else ever has. The sight of his monstrous form shakes her, yet the darkness within her yearns for him. These nightly visits continue for years.

    Until she meets Thomas.

    His love fills her waking hours, and Ellen's trances end. When they marry, dread looms. Thomas pulls away, repelled by her strange ways. He disappears on an ill-fated business trip, and death and plague descend on her city.

    Ellen knows—He is responsible. Orlok is coming for her.

    Despite his evil, Ellen cannot deny the call to his darkness. She summons him, not just to end the devastation, but to embrace her fate 🖤

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    14 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    There is something that feels small, like her —a tinge of stress and tightness that is not her own — comes from there often—but also love, a holding as her mama does for her. Warmth she leans into.

    There is something big, and empty, that Ellen shies away from, that occasionally makes her heart stutter, makes her burst into tears in the night. It frightens her mama. She pushes it aside, looks away from it, if she doesn’t acknowledge it, it is not there.

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    27 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    The sarcophagus was gone when they returned to Grünewald. The charred corpse of Herr Knock laid exposed and discarded in its place.

    No sign of Orlok or Ellen was found.

    He is still uncertain if it is despair or relief he's felt since the discovery. All he knows is this: that Orlok lives and so, too, must Ellen — in some way, some manner — and that Professor Franz and Dr. Sievers would murder her the same as the count. A sort of madness sinks its teeth in him as he faces this understanding, and Thomas is aware, distantly, that his thoughts turn ever more monstrous.

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    17 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    The most difficult part revealed itself at the end of that week. A final obstacle. The demon.

    Or Thomas finds out about Orlok during the honeymoon.

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    13 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    A crash. Then quick foot steps down the stairs. A man similar to the ones from her home, but quite pretty. Curly brown hair, blue eyes. Dressed in a white undershirt and trousers. He had stopped in front of her monster, giving a slight bow. There were a few bite marks scattered on him. She kind of wanted to add some more.

    “You’re back,” he’d said.

    Then he saw her, staring at him. He backed away slightly, behind her monster. Oh. Her fangs were out. She must have looked like she was about to devour him whole.

    Or Thomas and Ellen meet in a much different way than in canon.

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    10 Jan 2026