Mated To Valentine
In the center, a man is on the ground, curled into a ball as kicks and blows rain down on him.
He’s thin, almost skeletal, his clothes ragged and filthy. The crowd shouts accusations—thief, vagabond, devil—but I barely hear them.
My attention is fixed on the man’s eyes.
They’re not human.
I can see it even from here, the faint glimmer of something otherworldly in his gaze.
He’s weak, starved, but he’s one of us. Though not a vampire, but he's definitely not mortal. Hazel eyes don't just glow in the dark.