"Oh, no, my pet. This is just the beginning."

Once Upon a Time

3. The true beginning of our end.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act V, Scene I

( Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little girl. )

The Lunatic and the Poet

1. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act V, Scene I

The Royal London Hotel was the most sumptuous building William had ever been in. He’d been in nice buildings before, of course, but only thanks to the social circles he’d desperately tried to move in. This was different. He wasn’t that person anymore, for a start. No more cringing, no more clinging on at the edges of society. He was going to show the world who William Pratt could be.

( Although he needed to work on the name. It wasn’t very ... vampiric, was it? )