"I was young by todays standards...though already an adult in my days.... I was 16 or 17...I can never remember...it matters not though... I was a gypsy...a Rom...I traveled in a caravan with my family...I loved the excitement...the wandering...though the attitudes at that time towards my people left something to be desired it wasn't quite as bad then as it was later...I tended to live in fantasies and the every changing lifestyle we led just seemed to fit...." you hear a faint sigh and images flash in your head... a beautiful dark haired young women wandering in the woods...her sitting reading tarot...her dancing...the images become blurry as though viewed threw a veil of tears...

"We stopped at a dark castle...it was surrounded by mists and shadows...an aura of mystery seemed to cling to it...I was instantly drawn to it and was happy when we decided to stop there. We were greeted pleasantly....the people that lived there had gone so long without travelers...without any entertainment. We decided set up camp in a clearing by a dark forest....I went off to wander around....as I walked through the clearing I was drawn to the forest...it seemed to call my name....I was young and oh so curious..."

You begin to be dragged into her memory...you feel what she felt...hear what she heard...see what she saw...

You wander about ignoring most everything and allowing your thoughts to drift...you hear a voice whispers to you....

"What beauty...fair maiden why dost thou honor thy with thou presence..."

You turn about startled..."oh..m'lord...I saw you not...my mind wandered..."

You look at him clearly...you see a handsome man...dark in coloring...and probably of the aristocracy...a noble man.. you look into his eyes and feel drawn to him...to the shadows that seem to mark his soul...he begins to speak again...

"That tis what I figured....I'm Lord Carasgrove...."he nods to the slight view of the castle... "I am lord of all you see here...you are of the caravan..are you not.."

You nod slightly ..."yes m'lord...I....I am called Rosalea.."

You bow your head as you curtsey in proper respect...he walks to you and puts his fingers under your chin lifting your head.."Rosalea....its fits you...a beautiful name for a beauty...come..walk with me.."

You feel your breath catch in your throat and think that you would follow him anywhere...

You pull back from the image and are again in the shadowy room... her voice surrounds you as she starts to speak..." We wandered all through the woods that day...and many other days that followed....he became my greatest dream and fantasy...he treated me like a lady...you can't imagine what that was like for me...we were viewed as trouble...as whores...thieves...though I loved that lifestyle, and my people, I always yearned to be a proper lady and for once to be treated with respect...." she smiles slightly and continues her tale..." though we were welcomed at the castle we began to feel unwanted..it was dark...in appearance and atmosphere...and so many strange things had happened...two of our people had disappeared and we were preparing to leave....I wanted not to go...I loved my lord...I couldn't stand the thought of losing him...he knew I must go and asked me to meet him in the woods one last time...of course I went...I could refuse him nothing..." again you drift into her memories becoming her..

You enter the woods to meet your lord with an aura of sadness...the thought of leaving him was tragic...you spot him ahead of you...but he doesn't seem normal...he's so much darker...he seems surrounded by the mists...his eyes glow and he beckons to you....you begin to feel afraid yet your feet have a life of there own....you go to him and stare up into his eyes..he flashes you a smile...you feel a scream in the back of your throat...he has fangs...they glitter in the moonlight...he looks at you and speaks quietly..

"Do not be afraid....it will only hurt momentarily....this way we can always be together..."

He tilts his head toward you...his teeth break the delicate skin of your throat....

Suddenly you are back in the shadowed room....You gaze at her with frightened shock...

"I am nosferatu....vamphyre....I live with eternal hunger....I am a creature of the night...of the shadows.."

Suddenly shadowy mist surround her...she fades into them and disappears from your sight...her voice echos about the room.." Wander... Learn..."