To Become The Monster
She stepped forward, and the forest seemed to lean away, as if unwilling to touch her.
She was stunning. Terrifying in a way that had nothing to do with fangs or claws. Her hair was silver-white, falling in soft waves to her waist, glinting with faint hints of moonlight, even in the morning. Her skin was pale, almost luminous, but not fragile—there was a hardness beneath the softness, the kind that spoke of centuries of surviving, enduring, ruling.
Her eyes caught me first. Pale blue, ice-cold and impossibly clear. But beneath that clarity, there was a shimmer of something else—a warning, a story, a memory that stretched back far beyond my own lifetime.