Birthmarkers

Chapter 3

It was dark when I got back. I walked into the small tent that Zane made in the woods away from town. He looked up from his book and nodded. I couldn't think of anything to say, so I just sat down on the cot he was sitting on. 

"How was your hunt?" he asked closing his book. 

I rubbed my leg. "It was ok," I said.  

Zane sighed. "I got some clothes for you. They should fit you, but I don't know," he told me. 

Zane looked at me. His aura turned a bright red. He leaned into me. His teeth sank into my neck. 

"Zane." I said shocked.  

He moaned; then I understood how thirsty he was. I held his head to my neck. I finally felt his tongue run over the wounds on my neck.  

"Sorry, I shouldn't have done that," Zane told me. He got up in a swift motion and walked out of the tent.  

After a few minutes, I heard a low howl. I touched the tender spot where he bit me. I sighed; I never thought he would actually bite me. I stood up and grabbed some clothes. I walked out of the tent and went over to a creek near it. I washed my hair and body. I watched Zane come back up to the tent. His aura looked brown. He was still upset. I sighed. I pulled my towel out from under my clothes and dried off. I got dressed and walked up to the tent. I heard Zane thinking about him biting me. 

"Zane?" I asked touching his shoulder. 

He turned around a little bit and looked over his shoulder. "Blaire," he said simply. 

"It's ok. I was about to bite you when that guy shot me," I told him pulling his shoulder around so I could look at him. 

He pulled a knife of the table and cut his wrist. "Give me your hand," he said holding his hand out.  

I put my hand into his. He put his blood onto my sun on the back of my hand. It started to burn my hand. I pulled my hand from his. I looked at him and held my hand to my chest. "What was that?" I asked. 

Zane sighed. "It is how every guardian knows who they are supposed to be with. The men protect the women, Blaire. When guys get to a certain age in his life, just something tells them to go to a city. We just go where our conscience tells us to go. A lot of the guys will wait for centuries for their girl to come into the world," Zane told me sitting next to my feet.  

His aura changed from brown to black with red flares as I sat down next to him. "So, are you older than me?" I wondered as I tried to grasp the fact of a supernatural power pulling him to me. 

Zane chuckled. "No, you are actually a lot older than any of the elders, but you were brought into the world 18 years ago. But there are some guys, in our school, who are 200 years old."  

"Really?" I asked amused with that fact. "So I'm older than the elders?" 

He nodded. "Do you remember that dream that you snuck in on at school? The sun and the moon were rejoicing because you are their grand-daughter." 

I looked at Zane to make sure he wasn't lying. He wasn't. "How are they my grandparents? They never had kids, and even if they did have kids, how could they? They are inanimate objects."  

Zane shook his head. "You of all people should know that everything has a soul. The sun is male and the moon is female. Their children were night and day. Night is a male and day is a female. You are night and day's kid." 

"So that's why I am werewolf, vampire, and human?" I asked.  

"To tell you the truth I'm not sure. Because I'm all three and so is Skyler." Zane told me.