STEFANO

When the vampires start to fly around me, I knew that this is the infamous Circle of Death that I've read about many times and dreaded happening. Only now, it's not a series of images from a book.

I'm surrounded, with my chest growing increasingly tight, my breathing getting more and more ragged.

The vampires' wings flap more aggressively. Their screeches hang in the air. I can almost feel them taunting me, counting down to the second where I fall flat and die out ...