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Van Helsing: Blood Rain
Prologue: Vlad's Soliloquy
The soul, forever bound by its eternal fate, recognizes the need for surcease.
Human souls, ever sensitive to pain and agony to short but blissful bursts of joy, are placed in us humans, to breathe in us life. Life is carried by the innate fraility that is the soul.
It is highly possible that the soul is remerged by an outer force into another human being after its vessel has withered away. And because the soul cannot contain memories, the person born that is merged with it will not remember any so-called past lives except for only a few fragments —sensations— that one has been to this place or that before.
Human minds are the ones that carry memories, and therefore the soul cannot take those with it as the human body is not eternal.
I conclude with the cheerful thought that this soul I carry will pass on to another after my body weakens and is too frail to contain it. It must be clean.
So Lord… help me be clean.
—Count Vladislaus Valerious, 1449