Back to the dorm. 

And Dani will get ready for bed.

Carmilla watches her.

"How late are you planning on staying up?"

"I'm doing night classes - I'll probably go to bed right around when the sun gets up."

"We're on kind of opposite schedules, then."

"Maybe I can tempt you over to my side..."

"Next semester."

"Wouldn't want to be too tired in class, I guess."

"It'd absolutely ruin my reputation!"

"Well, we have some overlap in schedules at least..."

"Enough for pizza."

"And I'll probably push my wakeup time forward as I settle in."

"Then maybe we can include tea, too."

"An excellent enticement."

"I'm good at those."

"Tempting all around."

Hee.

Quick kiss. 

"G'night, Carmilla."

"Goodnight, caterpillar."

Dani giggles all the way to sleep.

She has odd dreams that night. Dark things, that slip through her grasp. Flashes of light and dark, of movement and stillness, there and gone too fast to process. 

She wakes up from what was surely a nightmare with the taste of blood in her mouth - though she can't remember what she dreamed - 

And she can't move. Something heavy presses her in place, traps her.

Nnn. Why can't she move, gotta move, gotta breathe-

There's a dark shape hovering beside her - flowing out from under her bed, its body liquid shadow - 

(And the shadows are crawling up her body.)