A Testament of Petals
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A period of five lonely years has elapsed since the terrible demise of Carmilla, yet for Miss Laura, time has brought no solace. She remains in a state of profound melancholy, perpetually beset by memories of a passion that ought to fill her with pious dread. Instead, it has become the very core of her existence. So potent is her yearning, it seems a force of nature in itself, a sorrow capable of troubling the very boundary between our world and that which lies beyond the veil.
And upon one fateful night, that boundary is breached. Carmilla returns—no phantom of a fevered imagination, but in veritable flesh and blood, imbued with a formidable power and a possessive will heretofore unseen. She has not come for retribution, but to lay claim to the prize she has always coveted: the undying and absolute devotion of Laura’s spirit.
Thus, Miss Laura finds herself at a terrible crossroads, compelled to confront the shadowed predilections of her own heart. She must choose her fate: to hold fast to the virtues of her mortal life and the hope of salvation, or to finally capitulate to that dark and possessive love which promises an eternity, but may demand her very soul as payment.
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- Part 1 of A Testament of Petals
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In this continuation of their immortal saga, 'Roses' delves into the perspective of Carmilla. Within a secluded château, she at last possesses all she has ever coveted: Laura, by her side, transfigured into her equal, her eternal companion. Together, they cultivate a garden of deep crimson roses, a dark paradise that blooms upon secrets and is fed by death. For Carmilla, eternity has at last found its purpose.
But not even eternity can bury the past entirely. An unexpected question from Laura, born from the intimacy of their entwined souls, threatens to unearth the very roots of the Karnstein dynasty—a history of blasphemous ambition, a doctrine of cruelty, and the ghost of an identity Carmilla swore was long dead.
Forced to confront the truth behind her original intentions for the girl who should have been merely prey, Carmilla faces a confession. It is a confession that could either sanctify their love as the purest form of heresy, or shatter their perfect eternity with the weight of an ancient and monstrous duty.
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- Part 2 of A Testament of Petals
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Twenty years after 'Lilies' and one after 'Roses', Laura and Carmilla live a reclusive eternity, a perfect idyll in their secluded sanctuary in France. Their love, once a secret heresy, has become the only law of their small world. But the century is turning, and the progress of the mortal world—with its telegraph wires, its science, and its cold logic—is beginning to cast an unwelcome light upon the shadows they so cherish.
Their paradise is threatened not by old superstitions, but by a new kind of zeal: an order of men that blends religious fervour with a clinical methodology, one that sees evil in more than just a thirst for blood. Hunted not only for what they are, but for whom they love, Carmilla and Laura are forced to confront the fragility of their Eden. This is not the story of the fall in paradise, but of the exile that follows when paradise is set aflame by the outside world.
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- Part 3 of A Testament of Petals