Carmilla
Mina enters Carmilla's court for a confrontation shaped by threat, attraction, and uncertain intentions.
A violent invitation
Carmilla reverses the expected relationship between vampire and victim. Mina enters Carmilla's court knowing exactly what awaits her and addresses its ruler with equal measures of threat, mockery, and attraction.
Mina's morality
The encounter expands the history first disclosed in The Council's Call, where Mina's long sleep is connected to Carmilla, and completes the journey begun in Grey Skies Rising.
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Mina dismantles the vampire's entourage and reveals that she has not come merely to kill. As Carmilla's old court falls, Mina offers her a place among the Hexbreakers.
The encounter is an extravagant recruitment operation conducted by an assassin who is comfortable using death and spectacle as persuasion.
