Chapter 2: Chapter 1

I floated above the little girl as she stared at me. She had a curious look on her face, probably wondering what I was. I couldn’t actually see her through eyes. It was more of a feeling I would get from watching the mortal races. The more she looked at me, the more I wanted what she had. It wasn’t fair that she had arms and legs. I wanted special protrusions that would allow me to sense more than my basic sensations. 

The more I was around mortals the more jealous I had become of them. Something within me was telling me to consume her just as I had the miasma around the world. The miasma I consumed would always bring with it a temporary relief to my problem. Maybe if I eat her I will have a longer period of relief? It was the mortals' fault anyway for being gifted things that I could not possess. With those thoughts in mind I floated towards the small human. She tried to run away, but I was faster as my body engulfed her.

After consuming her, I started to feel a ringing throughout my whole body. New sensations were being transmitted to me one after another until the ringing subsided. After that I felt pain for the first time in my existence. It was a dull aching pain at the top of my body. “Ugh” When the sound that was no more than a grunt left me, I became confused. “Uuuh?” I used my hand to cover my mouth. It was the first time I had ever used my upper protrusions, and I was elated upon seeing them. I started to jump up and down using the lower protrusions that my body now had. I was so happy that I failed to realize I was also seeing things for the first time.

The world around me was bright and colorful. There were different shades of green all around me, and in the sea of green I stood there with my mouth letting out “ooh” or “Aaah” at the sights before me. There were small creatures within the greenery that would skitter away from me as I stumbled over to them. It was hard to use my lower protrusions that I had zero experience with.

I stumbled around for hours until I found an animal with its life stolen from it. The animal was brown with 4 legs, and in its flank there was handiwork of the mortals. There was an arrow protruding out of it. There was also a bright red liquid gushing from where the arrow had struck. I heard a rustling from behind me, and as I whipped around there were two humans standing there. They were dressed shoddily in pelts from various animals. They had their bows at the ready, and when one of them looked me over he started talking in the language I had yet to comprehend. “Eva, what are you doing, so deep in the forest? What happened to your hair!?”

The words transmitted to me went over my head. As I just stared back at them. I had a growing sense of hunger from the blood pouring out of the animal, so instead of paying heed to the newcomers I turned around. I got on my hands and knees and started lapping up the blood like an animal. “Eva, w-what are you doing!? Come on, we need to get you home!” 

“What are you saying, Udur? It is clear that this girl isn’t Eva! Eva has black hair. I have never seen silver hair before on any of the inhabitants in our village.” I continued to lap up the blood as it filled me. The blood brought with it a sense of pleasure as well as making the dull pain in my head disappear. When I was content with the amount of blood I had lapped up, I turned around to face the men.

“I would know what Eva looks like, her pops lives right next to me. I don’t know why her hair color has changed, but that is clearly Eva! Maybe this is a sign of our goddess?” I still couldn’t make out the words they were saying, and it was starting to make me angry. I wanted to understand. I needed to understand, so I walked slowly towards them. Strangely, walking had become easier since drinking the blood of the animal.

“Uugh?” I said as I approached them, and they relaxed their bows. “What is wrong Eva? You look like a wreck.” The man gestured to my body, but the words went unanswered. I was growing increasingly agitated about my inability to understand them. “You are right she does look exactly like Eva, but look more closely. Her eyes are red. I have never seen someone with red eyes before.”

I started to pick up on something from their speech. Everytime they said “Eva” they would gesture to me. I tilted my head pointing at myself “E-e-e-b-b-a?” I had to know what they meant when they called me “Eva”. “You might be right, she doesn’t seem to understand us. Maybe she is a lost child from another tribe? She has fangs, and I have never seen a human with fangs.” 

“Are you sure? She could be a monster.” The man received a glare from his friend. “She could be no monster! Look at her, she was probably abandoned here. Maybe we should take her back with us? We could teach her how to speak our tongue.” 

“Are you mad!? Our village has enough mouths to feed! She is clearly not right in the head. She was licking blood from our kill! She has to be a monster. I don’t know of a little girl that could survive for long in this forest.” The first man paid no heed to what his friend was saying. He knelt down in front of me and presented his hand. I tilted my head to the side, and then I poked his hand with my own. The warmth from his hand was transmitted to me through my own, and when I put my entire hand on his he grasped my own. I tried to yank my hand away, but his grip was too powerful. “There there, I won’t hurt you. I just need you to come with me.” He said in a soft voice, but due to me not understanding I just became angrier. 

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I tried again and again to free my hand. Then I started pounding on his arm with my other hand, but nothing I could do would free me. As I started to panic he began to drag me. “You… What is the village chief going to say about this!? I think you are mad! This little girl clearly doesn’t want to go with us.”

When the pulling became too much to bear I got an idea. I took the moment when they started to argue in their language that eluded me. Then I bit down into the arm that clasped me. As the blood rushed into my fangs new information flooded my brain. “Wh-what are you doing!? That hurts!” The man yelled at me before letting me go. The previously unintelligible speech registered as words to me. That was the last thing I heard before the other man knocked me unconscious. 

When I awoke I was inside of a wooden cage. There were about 2 dozen curious onlookers, and they were all staring at me like I was something strange. We were inside of a larger building made out of wood and thatch.  “So, you are finally awake.” An old man with graying hair spoke to me. He had in his mouth a strange contraption. He would inhale from it, and when he exhaled smoke would be blown towards my face. “I am awake?” I tilted my head again. I was surprised that the words left my mouth.

“Hey, you said she can’t speak!” The old man looked over to my 2 captors with a stern gaze. “She wasn’t able to speak before. I don’t know how, unless…” He gazed at his arms that had two small holes in them. “No, that couldn’t be possible. Something like that is…” He mumbled the last part quietly, and no one seemed to pick up on it besides me. The old man looked me over for a while before asking “What are you? And where is Eva? She went missing today.” 

“What am I? I don’t know, and I don’t know what Eva is.” I responded to the questions clearly. I smiled to myself. I was so happy I could finally understand their speech. “Eva is a little girl that looks a lot like you. Only she has black hair, and her eyes were brown. Have you seen her?” I thought about it for a while, but I didn’t know if I had seen anyone like that. I couldn’t see colors before I got my body after all.

“No, I don’t know anyone like that. I was a spirit before I consumed someone, and I have never met anyone like that since getting my body.” Murmurs started forming from the crowd, and then the chief looked me over in understanding. “I see, you consumed Eva. That much is obvious. You are a demon. I have never heard of a demon that uses speech, but it does not matter. You will die for what you have done! You abomination. Udur, open the cage and restrain it! Tor, go get the salt! We will need to perform the ritual!” 

The words registered in my mind, but I was confused. I knew what dying was. That animal had been dead, and I knew that I didn’t want to be like that animal. I was alive. Immediately, when the cage opened I lunged at Udurs neck. I felt that my body had more strength now. I sunk my fangs into him and drained his blood swiftly before a spear impaled my side. Ignoring the pain I grabbed the spears and pulled it further into my body. The pain came in waves, but after pulling the person closer to me I sunk my fangs into their arm. The rush of blood from my attacker alleviated my pain. I yanked the spear out as people started to surround me. 

The spear in my hands now became my weapon to use, and I stabbed it through the next attacker. The end of the spear got stuck, and I pulled the skewered person closer as the next spear stabbed into me. I started drinking their blood as a spear impaled my neck. The blood of the person drained faster than ever before as they dropped dead. I yanked the spear from my neck, and I noticed my speed start to increase as I clawed at the next person. With every person that died after being drained, I felt myself growing stronger. I drank and drank from the people who were now screaming in terror of me.

The bodies kept piling on. I had been impaled many times, but the stabs weren’t fatal even when they pierced my skull. I just had to drink. I felt a rush, and I wanted to drink more and more blood. Several people fled the hut, and after everyone in the hut was dead besides me, I went outside to find even more of the huts. I rushed into the hut next to mine to find people sleeping. I took their lives by draining the blood of the entire family. It wasn’t enough. I wanted even more of what they had. I noticed after drinking some of their blood. I would understand the world even more. I would understand what it was like to be gifted like they were. 

The carnage continued until the entire village was dead. Not one single person or their child were spared. It was their fault for trying to kill me anyways. It wasn’t fair that they got to live the way they did. They had their families and villagers. They knew things about the world that I didn’t, and I needed to learn. When the village went completely silent, I noticed the road leading out of the village. I smiled thinking that there would be even more that I could take from them. I envied everything that they had, and so I would be taking it. “Why? I wanted to be like you! Why did they have to attack me!?” 

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