In a necrotic age where the land itself devours the living, Dracula's decaying castle stands as the last ark of a dying world. Within its bone-pale halls the dead do not rest — they drift through overgrown gardens under a cold blue moon, curated and kept by their vampire lord. Into this fragile sanctuary come two unlikely wanderers: a white-haired woman whose survival marks her as something the world cannot fully digest, and her android companion, a body that death cannot claim. They seek shelter. Dracula offers it, at a price paid in blood, memory, warmth, and names.
The world beyond the walls has learned to eat the living — roads coil into graves, forests digest travelers, and dusk turns villages into mouths. Only one place holds the hunger back: a crumbling gothic castle where the ancient vampire lord Dracula keeps the restless dead in his moonlit gardens. Refuge is real here. It always costs something.
Every safe room in the castle demands payment, and every act of Dracula's mercy is also a claim. The wanderers must decide whether he is the greater evil — or the last jailer holding back something far worse than himself.
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