Centuries. Okay, that lets the knot behind her breastbone relax a little. They aren't talking about something immediately urgent.
"In the end of winter, the Bishop in Targoviste burned a woman at the stake." Sypha's expression is far from opaque; the fact still fills her with sick fury, independent of the consequences. "A doctor, but they called her a witch. Lisa Tepes," she adds, because the name has been passed among the Speakers, not to be forgotten. "And then a fire storm appeared in the shape of a man - her husband. Dracula. The Church is trying to spread that he is Satan, but he's not.
"His wife was already dead. And now he's sworn vengeance on the entire kingdom. In one year, he said, he'll wipe humanity from Wallachia. We have about four months left."
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Date: 2023-08-15 08:45 am (UTC)"In the end of winter, the Bishop in Targoviste burned a woman at the stake." Sypha's expression is far from opaque; the fact still fills her with sick fury, independent of the consequences. "A doctor, but they called her a witch. Lisa Tepes," she adds, because the name has been passed among the Speakers, not to be forgotten. "And then a fire storm appeared in the shape of a man - her husband. Dracula. The Church is trying to spread that he is Satan, but he's not.
"His wife was already dead. And now he's sworn vengeance on the entire kingdom. In one year, he said, he'll wipe humanity from Wallachia. We have about four months left."