The Dracula Principle

"And, (and here is the evility to recognize) it would [the serpent], and does, eat its very own in order to stay alive.

"It is verily the Dracula principle, one which holds contempt for every creature considered frail or beneath them, dismissing their existence mercilessly, as no more than sustenance or sacrifice for their own ends.

"Those who have given over to this reptilian coldness can be recognized in this World as being faithful to only one, and self-serving at the core.

"They may lie very well, professing altruism, or mimicking charity, yet they are but two faced forgeries.

"In truth, their own arrogance draws them into the serpent’s hole, as they justify harm to even they of their own kind. Thus the Dragon devours its own tail - the ultimate self fulfilment - closed to all else within an infinite cycle of self love and acquisition.

"Cannibalism is universally unworkable. It is a practice that comes from the invert worlds - and make no mistake, it is pure evil."


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Circle of Endless Cycle

The great Lion raised its paw and pointed to an invisible wall where a motif appeared there before them. It was of a dragon that had become a circle, eating its own tail.

“See the Ouroboros. Do you know what it represents to many?”

“Infinity” came the reply.

“Yes. And its imagery is apt - for the Dragon lives on.

"Firstly, this circle of endless cycle, represents a continuum of the same i.e. a constant death of sorts - an enduring world that refuses to break down or give way, one that clings to its own existence … a Luciferic sphere, that does not seek or tolerate change … wishing only to maintain that which it already is."


- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Infinity times Two

"There is not just one type of infinity my child - but two. I shall explain to you now the very mystery and truth about good and evil.

"Yes, it can be told: one from the other. One is not the same as the other, as evil might have it … the principles of good and evil are indeed very clear, when you know them.

"And, equally, there are two ways of infinity."


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Ouroboros Serpent

Vlad would hold his inner gaze on this Serpent for hours at a time.

Later in life he despised all who he considered to be less than he. Weakness, he perceived, was a sign of unholiness. The weak did not conform to God.

In his alignment to the unnamed one, Vlad walked a lonely path - for no other came close to his private and personal elevation. He hid well this secret alliance. His certifiable smugness. This extreme and inverted egotism. He took his own counsel, and agreed with himself, that Vlad, and only Vlad, was worthy of the highest prize.


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

Young Vlad

When young Vlad knelt again and again, on calloused knees, he became a human compass aligned with the magnetism of those also in devotion; when the youth scored the holy script into his recall again and again, he would often, most often, fixate on a wall in the Mosque, where embossed into stone, was a circular dragon eating its tail.

When his body cried from the violations he had endured, and the shame that he inwardly hurt with, thoughts of revenge, and the ultimate might of the Holy one, soothed his upset and reinforced his rage's righteousness.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

This Elvish Man

“Take heart that your mother is around and knows exactly how you feel.”
“Do you think she is in the room with us now?” Charlotte asked dolefully.

“I can’t really say,” said Puck, who was genuinely aggrieved at his own shortcomings. Of all the things his vision could not penetrate, it turned out that he was not omnipresent after all.

Marley was in the room with them, as often was. And she was seriously rethinking her own absence. Loving this Elvish man was easy from afar, but in reality, how would they be together now? She never really understood the attraction in the first place. But one thing she did know, especially from what this ghostly oversight had revealed: although unconventional, and otherworldly as well, he truly was a good man - one who kept the best interests of this world and its humanity close to his heart.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances

A Good Man

"She said you are a good man.”

Puck warmly smiled at this. Even with his telepathic skills he had had no idea what Marley had thought of him now. And, she had called him a man. He wore that word with pride and was clinging to this phrase rather awkwardly.

“Dad, I don’t want that encounter to be my one and only with Mum - I have had so much to say and ask, and I feel that I just wrecked it.”

“It wouldn’t have been you that made her go”, he said consolingly with a small kiss on the forehead.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances