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Speaker 1: Everybody knew that the woods were not a safe place

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to be after the sun had gone down. Wolves prouded

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the tree covered hills, and it was said, bandits and

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thieves watched for lonely travelers, waiting to separate owners from

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their belongings. But those would be the least of your worries.

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Something far more sinister haunted the shadows, watching and waiting

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for just the right opportunity to come along. And it

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would appear such an opportunity was happening right at that moment.

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Along the narrow track through the trees, illuminated by the

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light of a silvery full moon, hurried a figure wearing

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a long, dark cloak and hood. It was exactly what

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the lurker in the darkness was hoping for. He plunged

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through the inky night on wide bat wings, transforming at

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the last moment into a thin, long limbed figure blocking

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the traveler's path. Wa Ha, laughed the vampire with menace,

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as he flashed his sharp pointed teeth.

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Speaker 2: Prepare to meet your.

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Speaker 1: Doom, you, what said the figure, stopping abruptly. What did

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you say, I said, repeated the vampire.

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Speaker 2: Prepare to meet your doom?

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Speaker 1: Prepare the meeting room, asked the traveler in confusion. What

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are you talking about, you daftbrush. We're in the middle

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of the deep dark woods. There ain't no meeting rooms

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in here.

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Speaker 2: If you'd like to pay attention for a moment, snapped

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the vampire crossly, I said, prepare to meet your doom.

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Speaker 1: How I'm sorry, cackled the figure as she pulled back

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her hood to reveal a head of long tangled hair.

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You must have been mumbling or something. You should really

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speak more clearly. You say to you a question. I

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left it back at my cottage, the vampire normally.

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