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She was not born to unite with others, but to haunt herself. Like a bat she kept to the castle where by birth right, her power was unlimited, black, dark, thinking of nothing except lolling slowly and watching the blood flow, continuously.
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Valentine Penrose,
The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory (via
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