The legend
How Count found Friends
Count Vlad has been around a long time, and for most of it, he was very, very tired. Being up all night will do that.
One evening he flapped past downtown Elkhorn and spotted a glowing red drink through the café window. Cherry. Fizzy. Electric. He swooped in just before closing and asked for 'something with bite.'
The team handed him a Cherry Lotus and a little syringe of strawberry purée. He squeezed it in himself, watched it swirl like a scene from one of his old movies, and took a sip. His eyes went wide. His cape fluttered. He did not sleep for three days.
He's been a regular every October since. He insists on squeezing the syringe himself — 'It's the ritual,' he says — and honestly? We get it. It's the most fun drink we've ever made.
“I vant to suck… through a straw.”