• Her heart pounded in her throat. The only thing she could hear was the dull thud of her heartbeat. Someone was following her. She knew it as surely as she knew the sun would rise in the morning. She could not hear them, she could not see them, but they were there. She continued down the forest path, wanting, with every fiber of her being, to run with all the speed God had givin' her legs to the safety of her home just some hundred feet down the forest path. She could see the edge of her house peaking out from behind the trees. She began to breathe a sigh of relief. She was safe at la- someone grabbed her from behind, there cool hand going against her mouth so tightly she could utter not a sound. "Hello, my pretty." He murmured against her ear, his warm breath brushing against the delicate skin there. "Didn't your mother ever tell you not to walk alone at night?" Tears coarsed down her moon-pale cheeks as she squeazed her unnaturally bright blue eyes shut. "Kittens like you shouldn't stray so far from home. Mmmm, well that's just too bad for you, isn't it? Why should I surrender my dinner, so you can go home safe and sound? Hmmm? It isn't my fault you were out wandering alone at night. No, I don't think I'll release you." He leaned down, his tounge flicking out to taste her pulse-throbing neck. "Mmmm, yum. You are a tasty morsal, aren't you?" Suddenly, he shoved her forward several feet, however, before she could regain her balance, he had her shoved up against a tree. His normally green eyes shown bloodred, his lips curled back over ivory fangs. "Do not wander alone after dark, Kitten. you may find yourself someone else's dinner." His voice was deathly quite, and even more frightning for it. Then, he vanished, leaving her leaning against the tree for support, her chest heaving, ebony tale twitching, and pointed cat ears quivering.