As night fell, he was patched up by Zoe, who re-attached his hand and provided him with the Genome Codex, a special device which once belonged to Mia. For mere minutes he was in a state of clinical death, only to begin waking up while being dragged into the Main House. Unaware to Winters at the time, he and Mia as well as the Baker family had become contaminated by the Mold by a human bio-weapon named Eveline this fungus replaces cells with more resilient fungal imitations. Įthan and Mia are captured by Jack Baker. He then took the two back with him to the Main House. This escape attempt was all for naught, however, and he was quickly captured by Jack, who inflicted severe brain damage on him with a stomp on the head. During this attempt, Winters was attacked once more by Mia, who cut his left hand off with a chainsaw before he could take her down with a handgun. Locked in the house by Jack Baker, Winters received a phone call from Jack's daughter, Zoe, which warned him too escape via the attic window. Mia was found to be amnesiac, hearing voices and actively self-harming, before becoming hostile and forcing Winters to defend himself with an axe. When searching the basement, Winters found Mia locked in a cell and freed her.

Winters' initial search of the 'Old House' uncovered Mia's driver's license, as well as a snuff film depicting the death of Andre Stickland, with Winters finding his remains soon after.

Due to this choice in action, Winters was left unaware the general area was being investigated by law enforcement following a spate of disappearances, in fact instigated by the Baker family. Rather than alert the authorities, Winters promptly drove out alone to find out for himself. On 18 July 2017, Winters received an email purported to be from Mia, giving him instructions to pick her up at the Baker ranch in Dulvey Parish, Louisiana.

Mia disappeared in October 2014 while crossing the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane, and was assumed dead.Įthan heads to find Mia in Dulvey Parish, Louisiana. In May 2011 he married his Texan girlfriend, Mia, who he believed was a high-ranking employee in a trading company but was in fact a research assistant for The Connections, a manufacturer of illegal bioweapons. Little is known of Winters' early life, though it is known that by 2017 he was living and working in Los Angeles, California as a systems engineer. 1.5 Inside Realm of Consciousness (2037).

How to Elude a Vampire by Alice Winters