At the exact night and time agreed, Lenore stood waiting for Dracula to open the distance mirror, opening a hole in space for her and her two maidservants to step through. The two maidservants carried her luggage, heavily laden even for a trip of two days. Lenore knew the value of being beautiful and expensive. It was part of both the persona she had crafted and the life she liked to lead. So wherever she went, she had the capacity to look like she belonged in a ballroom.

Once the three of them were safely back in Dracula's castle, the two maidservants trotted off without raising their eyes, not expecting Dracula to take even a moment's notice of them. Lenore looked up at her host with a smile, pleased to be back. She'd had two days in one vampire lord's court and two days in the other, and now she was ready to discuss next steps.

"I have answers, though I do not yet have a plan," she informed him, expecting him to make the decision of whether he wanted to sit her down and hear the details immediately or whether that could wait until later in the night, after he was done with his other tasks.