Chapter 7 - Ivory Shade

The first time I met Professor shade was the day I was to start working as her TA (teachers assistant). She was pleasant and beautiful. Cleanly directing the conversation and making me none-the-wiser to her manipulations.

I wish I had know, instinctively, that she was a predator. But unlike the lambs and deer who know they're prey, I didn't. I was the dog. An unsuspecting and loyal creature happy to do whatever you want and take any pain for just a sliver of your love.

I walked straight to my death. With a fucking smile on my face. Because she wasn't a predator to me. She was my friend. And now I'm this…monster that attacks it's best friends and random girls in Irish bars.

God, what has become of me?

Maybe I should let those "hunters" kill me. At the very least, then I wouldn't be drowning in guilt.

At least then I could look into the mirror and see a normal pale boy instead of this sharped edged man-boy with pointed ears and sharp teeth. That was new. And entirely unwelcome.

I was now a predator. Even more so than I was as a omnivorous human. I was no longer the prey.

And I think that's what terrifies me.

The temptation.

To hunt. To feast.

To become what I never was as the prey. As human.

To become a killer.

I'm scared.

And I don't know what to do.

God damned, Ivory Shade.

You've ruined me.