How did Darla establish a psychic connection with Angel in his dreams?
If she had been brought back as a vampire, the connection could have come from the psychic bond between vampire and sire. But she’s human. Perhaps her new humanity does not break the psychic bond established earlier between vampires. Vampires and love Drusilla’s visions Evil in “Dear Boy” Angelus: In 1860 London, doting lioness Darla found an interesting target for her seasoned spawn Angelus–an innocent young woman with pre-cognitive gifts, the mortal Drusilla. Angelus was later surprised by an accidental meeting with his “mark” in a confessional, just after he’d killed a priest (Becoming, pt. 1). Dru’s unreliable visions did not warn her that she was speaking to an evil vampire, much less the man who’d stalked her on the street earlier. Angelus tormented Drusilla into madness (LTM, B1), killed her family, then invited Darla to help him slaughter all the nuns in the convent where Dru had taken refuge. And in the final move of his sadistic game, he made her insanity eternal by turning
