Sure as certain - during that night, count Florence visited the person that he thought would never be a monster in him - yet he did. That only earned the count such laughter that contain much menace and demeanor in it that no one could ever oppose. Such laughter echoed inside his room that he didn't even care if servants will enter or not. As much as he was laughing while holding some chess pieces on his desk - he couldn't deny that something in his plans had been quite changed a lot. From the chess pieces - his eyes move like a snake thinking of his next move to catch the prey as the pawn he's been holding currently landed on the same column as the king of the other wide making him smirk with such delight as he said the words that could make any people shiver from the venomous tone it had
"Checkmate...."
