Glynis Wright’s dream warning to Andrew Wright turns a private nightmare into a clandestine appeal for resistance: she tells him that Vlad Dracula is evil, that he has killed their parents and May Wright, and that his arrival in England would threaten Andrew’s family. The dream also makes visible what Glynis has concealed behind her veil—her transformation into a vampire—and asks Andrew to act without revealing why.

Background and Frame

The encounter is recorded by Andrew in his journal on 20 April 1820, after he wakes from a nightmare and cannot return to sleep. Its dream begins in the fog beside the Danube, with a drunken butcher staggering through the night. The sequence shifts from this disturbing street scene to Andrew’s own bed: he sees himself stir and sink back into sleep before hearing a woman call him to open his eyes. The ordinary details of the nightmare give way to an intimate visitation, but the dream does not present itself as mere fantasy. Glynis insists that its words are true, and Andrew’s journal entry traces how that claim begins to alter his understanding of his sister and Vlad.

The approach is marked by mist and a strange heaviness that makes it difficult for Andrew to stay awake. When he opens his eyes within the dream, he finds himself in his own body, looking toward Glynis at the end of the bed. Wisps of mist seem to restrain him as he tries to sit up. The setting makes the warning feel both close and inaccessible: his sister is physically present in the dream, yet he cannot meet her under ordinary conditions or freely respond to her.

The Revealed Sister

Andrew recognizes Glynis’s features, but the figure before him is unmistakably changed. Her skin is pale and almost translucent, her eyes shine like aquamarine, and her blood-red lips and sensual presence do not match the sister he remembers. Her face appears whole to him, prompting him to notice the contrast with the damaged appearance he expects. The encounter therefore exposes the supernatural secret that her veil has helped conceal, while preserving Andrew’s uncertainty about how much of the figure is truly his sister and how much belongs to the dream.

Glynis acknowledges that the setting is a dream but insists that its message is truthful. She confirms Andrew’s suspicion that something is wrong with Vlad and describes him as evil. Most consequentially, she tells Andrew that Vlad has already killed their parents and May. The dream thus gives Andrew knowledge he did not possess: the family’s apparent losses are not simply the result of the accident or circumstances he had been led to believe, but acts of Vlad’s violence. Glynis urges her brother not to fear for her, claiming that she has more power than he realizes, even as she admits that Vlad holds her under his control and that she cannot yet escape.

The Appeal to Andrew

Glynis connects the danger in Buda to Vlad’s intended move to England. If Vlad reaches England, she warns, Andrew and his family will be destroyed. She asks Andrew to proceed cautiously in assisting Vlad, to delay him and make excuses, and to give her time to find a way out. Her request turns Andrew’s suspicions into a practical responsibility: he is not to confront Vlad openly, but to obstruct the journey while concealing the reason for his resistance.

The appeal is especially difficult because Andrew remembers Glynis as having said that she loved Vlad. He raises that apparent contradiction, and she answers that she loathes him: Vlad’s power prevents her from escaping, but her apparent attachment is not consent. She also tells Andrew not to speak of the dream or explain the real motive behind any delay. If she escapes, she promises, she will come to him in England—but not with Vlad, whose arrival would endanger Andrew, Angeline Wright, and their child. Andrew eventually accepts the instruction, though the dream leaves him frightened by the sister he recognizes and the inhuman being standing before him.

Awakening and Consequences

The dream ends with a physical and emotional parting. Glynis leans over Andrew, presses her lips to his forehead, and calls herself a dream with truths woven within. Andrew then watches from outside his own body as she weeps tears tinged with blood. Mist rushes out through the window, and she disappears. The image binds the supernatural revelation to grief: Glynis has reached her brother, but she remains separated from him and still caught in Vlad’s power.

When Andrew truly wakes, he crawls to his desk and writes down what he has seen. He cannot fully accept that the visitor was his sister, yet he believes her warning despite recognizing how irrational that belief may appear. He resolves to delay Vlad’s move to England and give Glynis time to escape. At the same time, the dream changes how he interprets earlier evidence: he wonders whether Glynis’s veils hide more than scars, and recalls the strange paralysis that seized him during his first day at her residence.

Glynis’s journal entry of 21 April confirms that the visitation was her deliberate act. She went to Andrew while he slept and spoke into his dreams, hoping that he would obey without exposing her message to others. She felt his power resisting her attempt to reach him fully and feared that he had seen her true face. Although she cannot know what effect the warning will have, she believes it has at least placed Andrew beyond Vlad’s immediate manipulation and may help him protect Angeline and their child. The two accounts therefore frame the dream as both a revelation and a covert intervention: Andrew records it as a nightmare that he chooses to trust, while Glynis describes it as a risky attempt to enlist her brother in her escape.