Blood Thirst and Romance

Prologue - The Shadows in the Dark



There is something about the dark that has always scared people. Maybe it's because our subconscious tells us that there is something out there. That the shadow you see dart across your room in the middle of the night, is not a shadow at all. Or the rustle of leaves outside your window is not the wind, but something evil prowling your garden.

But monsters aren't real. So we fall back to sleep, thinking we're safe and that nothing can harm us.

That's what I thought that night. I heard the rustle of leaves from behind me; told myself it was only a cat or some woodland creature. Saw the shadows move where nothing was there; must have been my imagination. Heard a howl that filled the night air; it was only a dog.

I paid dearly for not heading the warnings. Not with my life, but with something even worse; my soul.

I should be happy that I survived, three people had been killed that night, including one of my closest friends.

But I'm not. No matter how I hard I try to be, I can't. I wish I was saved from this life like my friend and the other villagers, saved from this evil curse, saved from all this pain and saved from the monster that is now my soul.


Death would have been a blessing…