Summary

Mina’s journal begins Chapter 27, as she and Van Helsing travel across Transylvania. Her forehead scar gets some unwanted attention. Mina’s hypnotized state indicates that Dracula is moving along the river. Eventually Mina begins to sleep so much that Van Helsing takes over writing the journal. They reach the Borgo Pass, and Mina points the way toward the castle. The hypnosis stops working, and Mina stops eating. When they rest, Van Helsing makes a circle around them, spreading pieces of Communion wafers in the circle so no evil can approach them.

One night the horses are frightened, and Van Helsing thinks he perceives the specks of the three women who tortured Jonathan materializing around them. They try to make Mina join them, but she refuses. They cannot enter Van Helsing’s sacred circle. They must leave at dawn.

On November 5, Seward and Quincey...