#chloral can only be good for health I guess

[eolewyn1010]

Mina has finally gotten her letter from Sister Agatha via Jonathan's boss, Mr. Hawkins, and is about to leave Whitby to go and pick up our Victorian himbo so he can join the plot again. Also, wedding bells? While Jonathan is still in mental care? Uhm, okay. Whatever.

In the meantime, Renfield does something interesting again, confusing Jack. Renfield feels his Master's presence - that took a while; Dracula has been around for over a week. Psychiatric (hah!) guesses are on religious mania, which is quite interesting with Renfield's life-consuming-to-ascend thing. I guess he does have religious feelings about Dracula and the blood stuff. Jack still makes me giggle when he goes, "he will soon think that he himself is God". Honey, I don't think Renfield's ego is the problem here. Renfield gets more and more "excited" over the next half hour, a wording that puts distinctly and disturbingly sexual imagery in my head, but who am I to criticize anyone's religious ecstasy. Once he goes "quite quiet" (I love Jack's choice of words today), the Doc tries to get him on the topic of his spiders, but Renfield don't give no shite no more. He says something strange and oracl-y about brides that I don't have the braincells to interpret right now because I'm not sure if he means Dracula's brides yonder or Mina and Lucy as he mentions "maidens" which I presume the ladies in the castle not to be, and also this story is not really about them. Jack contemplates taking chloral so he can sleep after all that. Freaking chloral. I got nothing. But the thought of Lucy keeps him from indulging in the little drug ditty. Bless.

Later that night, Renfield escapes from the asylum. Ah, that's why he went all ominously quiet. He wrenched out the freaking window, no less. Metal. Perhaps blood does make him stronger. Worried about Renfield trying to have a snack from a passer-by, Jack runs out and about with an attendant, finding that Renfield does the wall-scaling lizard-style that we already know. What does one even need to be a vampire for? Renfield is doing pretty fine as it is. When Jack catches up to him Renfield is talking to Dracula, although Jack can't see the latter. Also, "I am your slave and you will reward me"? Does Renfield know how slavery works? He delivers a pretty epic fight before he's brought back to the asylum. And expects Dracula's triumph. That's gonna be interesting.