Scene 10 The Center Courtyard of the Temple Ruins

Jennifer: I’m sorry, I said something rather rude.

Francis: You are?

Jennifer: I’m Jennifer McCartney, from the “History Detection Club”.

Francis spots her corsage.

Francis: What is this rose?

Jennifer: Is it really so rare? It’s a memento from my grandmother.

Francis: Your grandmother… Has she passed away?

Jennifer: Yes. (Francis looks away for a moment.) Did you know her? You couldn’t have. She secluded herself in her cottage in Scotland until last year.

Francis: Why are you participating in this symposium?

Jennifer: During the war my grandfather found a suit of armor here in the temple and brought it back with him to England. I wanted to return it, and that gave me an opportunity to get involved in this project.

Francis: In other words, the armor called you here.

Jennifer: And you? Is this your first time here?

Francis: No, I was here once, long, long ago.

Jennifer: You talk as if you were an old man!

Francis: Ah, dealing with the structures which have survived through the ages, I lose all sense of time.

Jennifer: They say there were vampires in this temple.

Francis: I know. Everyone would gather long ago in this inner courtyard to worship. They held engagement ceremonies here too.

Jennifer: You’re well informed, as I would expect!

Francis: On that decaying cross over there, five different colored stones were attached and shaped to look like five roses. Just like that corsage. Would you let me borrow it for a moment?

Jennifer: Of course.

Francis: Thank you.

When Francis reaches to take it, she spots his tattoo.

Jennifer: A rose tattoo!

Francis: Yes, the result of youthful impetuosity.

Jennifer: How strange. Grandmother said she got that diamond from a vampire. When I was a child she told me that man had a rose tattoo on his arm.

Francis: Did that story really happen?

Jennifer: She said she got that diamond when she was fleeing the Nazis and left her homeland. So you see, she got really angry whenever she saw a movie with Dracula. She said he was more handsome.

Francis: Ohh?

Jennifer: She said he danced the tango. Can you dance?

Francis: No, not at all.

Jennifer: Of course. But it really does seem as if you’re connected somehow.

Francis: Won’t you hang that rose on the cross? A memorial to the past.

Jennifer: Sure.

Jennifer walks towards the cross, when suddenly ominous thunder rumbles.

M49 “Mikhail’s Entrance ~ The Confrontation”

Mikhail: Jennifer, what are you doing?

Jennifer: I’m listening to some explanations from this man from UNESCO. Mr. Edward F. Jones. This is the president of Everlife, Michael.

Mikhail: F stands for Francis?

Francis: Mikhail in English is Michael…

Jennifer: Do you know each other?

Mikhail: Yes, long ago.

Francis: He has been here before as well.

Mikhail: Don’t say unnecessary things. We’re rose collection rivals. How many have you gathered?

Francis: One. In Vietnam. You?

Mikhail: Still only two.

Francis: Jennifer, you can’t give that rose to him!

Jennifer: What is going on with you two?

Francis: We’re vampires.

Jennifer: Wha?

Mikhail: Jennifer, can you believe that? He’s crazy.

Francis: I know you can’t believe it, but it’s the truth. Your grandmother was Paula. She left Berlin with four others: her older sister, younger brother, and a Jew called Hans.

Jennifer: How do you know that?

Francis: Because I was the one who gave her that diamond!

Mikhail: He’s a lunatic.

Several of Mikhail’s lackeys and the doctor arrive. They circle Francis.

Jennifer: But he knows the truth about my grandmother. A seventy year old story! All of them died long ago. And there’s the rose tattoo…

Mikhail: He probably looked most of it up. Jennifer, he’s dangerous, come this way.

Mikhail leads a reluctant Jennifer away.

Doctor: Now then, let’s cure this man imprisoned by his own megalomania.

Francis: The doctor?! Jennifer, don’t give him the rose!

Jennifer: Michael, tell me what is going on.

Mikhail: When the event is over.

They exit.

Francis: You think you can take me down?

Doctor: I know you’re immortal. But I have made a lot of progress in my vampire experiments. Mikhail is weak against sound waves of a certain frequency. Humans can’t hear them, but they seem to be very severe for you.

The lackeys don huge headphones to cover their ears while the doctor pulls out an odd-looking gun. Francis collapses in agony from the frequency.

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