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Backlund, twelve in the morning, inside a small apartment somewhere in the East Borough.
Emlyn White, who had been resting during the day, woke up, rather puzzled by the dream he had just had.
He seemed to have dreamed of Lilith, the Ancestor of the Sanguine!
In the dream, he seemed to be strolling through a forest. The canopy overhead blocked out the sky, with faint red moonlight spilling through the gaps.
Later, Emlyn came to a clearing and saw the Crimson Moon in the sky, along with a pair of enormous bat wings that obscured half the Red Moon.
In Sanguine legends, this was one of the symbols of the ancient god Lilith.
Then, in his excitement, he flew high into the sky to approach the red moon, only to discover unexpectedly from above that the clearing beneath him seemed to bear strange markings. Looking down from midair, Emlyn discovered that the grass, flattened in an orderly fashion, actually formed a marvelous pattern in the clearing. He had been seeing this pattern constantly over the past few days-it was actually the Holy Emblem of the Church of the Earth Mother!
Astonished, he looked back up at the sky and discovered that the red moon had grown distant at some point, while the darkness farther away had been illuminated by red moonlight, revealing a building that looked like a church.
At this point in the dream, Emlyn naturally woke up. As a Sanguine Viscount, he possessed a basic ability to analyze dreams:
It was my troubles lately that caused this dream...
*I really am favored by the Ancestor, but why is the Mother Goddess also... P-praise you, source of life, mother of all things! Thank you, Ancestor!... They are hinting that if I want an opportunity to advance to