Blessed animals

Renfield, fanatical servant of Count Dracula, scans every inch of the psychiatric ward where he is confined in search of spiders, ants, flies and even birds. His aim is to devour them until he is filled with vital energy on his initiatory path to the immortality promised by his master. Each time he craves heavier animals, with more blood, he manages to manipulate flies, tame a bird, but they are too small creatures. He becomes engrossed, delirious, speculates on the greatest, he is a madman of extremes, but not even in his most lunatic thoughts could he imagine himself subduing a dinosaur, despite the fact that he is being enslaved by a vampire.

Thousands of miles away, in England, Mina accompanies her fiancé Jonathan in the preparations for his trip to Transylvania to close a sale with the count. It is difficult to arrange everything inside the trunk with the light of the incipient, but still precarious, electric bulb and, on top of that, with the incessant games brought by her dog and cat. Mina, still ignorant of what fate has in store for her, chides them affectionately without looking up from her recently published treatise on natural history. Moved, she finds striking similarities between the whimsical shapes of the book’s inhabitants and her mischievous companions.

Dawn. Dazed, Dracula runs swiftly down a corridor lined with ancient tapestries with twisted zoomorphic figures and indecipherable typographical symbols. He crosses a hall, stumbling over rusty armor and stuffed vermin on his way up the spiral staircase that leads to the castle’s highest tower. Through the windows of the building, always closed, the first rays of the morning sun filter through, lacerating his nocturnal figure. He sticks his head out of a small window, scrupulously observing the horizon with the scrutiny of an eagle and, as such, he launches himself into the void. He soars mightily towards the great incandescent ball and in a matter of seconds, his charred body is eternally extinguished.

His conflict has been resolved, he will no longer be a wolf, nor a raven, nor a vampire, nor will he ever be a mortal human again, now he is just another prodigy of nature that disappears forever.