Luna Rising
he whispered, almost pleading, “then what am I?”
A young hybrid—no older than seventeen—met his gaze. There was no reverence there. Only horror.
The last of the black veins disintegrated at his feet, dissolving into nothing more than gray dust carried away by the rain.
The dark glow beneath his skin dimmed, not extinguished but thinning, like ink diluted in water. Without the web to feed him, to circulate stolen strength through him, his shoulders sagged almost imperceptibly.
“You were never strong,” I said quietly.