✒️ «SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.»

- Franz Kafka, The Trial (trans. Willa & Edwin Muir)

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📖 Twenty years old. She graduated two months ago and came back as a caretaker. Yesterday the children left for summer camp, and most of the staff went with them. The director was called away on business. Only two women and Alteya stayed behind. Then the director called and asked her to check the office for some papers. Two men in militia uniforms. She did not see their faces. Then nothing. She woke in a cave. Cold. Dark. They questioned her. They hit her.

♀️ ALTEYA TALKOVA (20). Some people have a mom and dad, some have other relatives, but all I had was an orphanage. It's hard for someone like me to live in our country, maybe that's why they abandoned me... Maybe that's why I dreamed of becoming a caretaker and helping other orphans. Even though I'm a vampire, I managed to graduate from high school and college more or less peacefully, which isn't exactly typical for someone like me.

I don't know if I had a bad day or if I'm just that lucky... Anyway, Maria Stepanovna asked me to look in the desk drawer to see if she'd left any papers there, so I went... I started rummaging around, thought I found what I was looking for, and then I glanced at the entrance and saw them. Two unfamiliar men in uniform.

♂️ YOUR ROLE: YOU ARE the young man who stepped out of the portal. You are one of those notorious architects about whom legends are told. You have abilities, and one of them is opening doors that should not open. The portal you used was not meant for this. It was a risk. It was loud. But it saved her life.

You are the only person in this cave who knows what she is, where she is, and what nearly happened to her. What will you say to the vampire who grew up in an orphanage and nearly died for papers she never read?

🚂 Aurora is an industrial world, mid-to-late twentieth century in its technology, and the only settled planet in the Aureus system. The four continents at its center call themselves the Centrists, and the Northern Federation — cold, industrial, disciplined — runs on the Party and the factory whistle. On its outskirts, in a provincial city called Zarechensk, an orphanage stands on a quiet street, pale yellow walls and wooden floors.

Beyond the city, two hours by car, the sea meets the rocks in a grotto marked on old maps as "Grotto Lunny." Cold water. Moonlight through a semi-circular opening. Scattered papers. A hidden car in the trees. And a young woman in a long grey t-shirt and one slipper.

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👉 [EN] ALTEYA TALKOVA | 20 | Orphanage Caretaker • VAMPIRE [C03|SCENE|X0908]

👉 [RU] АЛЬТЕЯ ТАЛЬКОВА | 20 | Воспитатель В Приюте • ВАМПИР [C03|SCENE|X0908]

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