His mother looked at him, her eyes empty and emotionless. There was no kindness or the tenderness that once used to reside in there. Strangely she didn't attack him. They stood there in the long hallway, looking at each other. One in pain and the other in hollowness that lacked any sense of who those pair of eyes were staring at.
"Mother?" Leonard called out softly, wishing his mother was still in there somewhere where he could reach and bring her out of the darkness. His mother didn't respond and his heart only sunk that much farther.
Hearing someone's steps, her head suddenly snapped and she went in another direction.
When Leonard followed her, he saw his mother who had opened her mouth to show her fangs threateningly at someone. Like others, her face had begun to change as veins like lines began marking from the sides of her face and it went on to stretch until her cheekbones.
"Mrs. Carmichael...?" It was none other Vivian who stood there.
