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Silas Hill, in picturesque Shropshire, where a trio of stories are unfolding.
In the present day, Carmilla and Laura take up residence in Carmilla's long-empty family home only to discover that though the past might be buried it may not be entirely dead. In 1872, Mircalla and Elle find themselves trying to hold together amid forces both tangible and ghostly. And in the chaos of the fifth century, Holly is trapped in a desperate struggle to survive in which her only ally is a dangerous and unstable woman named Karn.
Three interlocking AUs with three different versions of Hollstein and in three different time periods - but all in the same place.
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40,000 years ago nameless artists painted the cave walls in black and red. Aurochs, bison, deer, wolves, bears, leopards, hyenas - and above all, lions.
Today, two friends on the brink of a new relationship take a holiday to southern France. For both Laura and Carmilla it is the chance to be alone and see who they might become together. For Carmilla it is also a trip back to the half-forgotten country she spent her childhood in. But as the setting grows more and more familiar and as some of the locals seem slightly too welcoming, she begins wonder what kind of things she has forgotten and what she might need to remember before it's too late.
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And then the war came. The last great war of the modern world that rent the earth with tanks and mines and bombs. So my punishment came to an end and I walked off the battlefields in Austria to greet the twentieth century.
Human again, Carmilla goes back with Laura to the site of her imprisonment for the first time and tries to understand the person who came out of the coffin and how she picked up the threads of life again. Flashbacks to Carmilla's experiences in the first days after escaping her tomb.
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Dishonourably discharged cavalry officer Danny and fast-talking scoundrel Laura live an enjoyably debauched life in provincial Italy, surviving on their wits. But one day their world of dodging creditors, crashing card tables and seducing the local girls is interrupted by the discovery of a beautiful but inaccessible countess who drives both women into a frenzy of scheming.
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It is a year later and Laura and Carmilla are pulled from their new life in Paris by a combination of disturbing dreams and a tarot card that keeps turning up in Perry's hands. But Perry and LaFontaine have been dreaming too - of footsteps on the stairs and figures on the beach, all getting closer, all asking the question: Who is this who is coming?
And there is somebody familiar reflected in the mirror where Perry's face should be - somebody who should be very much dead.