Twilight 月 Incandescent Moon

Chapter 20: The Two Recruiters

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Chapter 20 - The Two Recruiters

　

　

　

After entering into the forest I'd wandered around for a bit, making sure I didn't run into any people or werewolves. I could sense them out in the forest, big spots of energy that glowed brighter than the humans. I found that I could also sense the Cullen family, but because their body temperatures were lower it was harder for me to spot them.

I noticed two of them that were moving out around town in the afternoon. They visited the shop and also the city hall. Every aura had different energy signatures, I just didn't know who belonged to who yet. Once I did that, I'd be able to spot them out anywhere among the town as easy as cake. For now, I was left to guess who was moving around.

The simple fact that they'd visited the spots that I'd been meant that the Cullens were looking for me for some reason. During the evening, I felt another one leave the house and travel to my aunt and uncle's. I'd rushed back to the spot and hid in the brush of the forest's edge. The white lattice fence also made me harder to be seen, providing the perfect color. I'd listened in on who I learned was Dr.Cullen and my relative's conversation.

I found out that he wasn't looking for me, but some other girl.

Or maybe he had meant to lead onto me since I'd made them forget. Either way, they were still out searching for me for some reason. After listening to the coversation to the end, I fled back into the forest to hide.

There I stayed for a while until a nawing hunger began to grow inside of me. It got bigger each day and I knew it wouldn't be long until I would need to go back into town. It had been five days since the day I erased my aunt and uncle's memories. Since then, I had found out that I didn't need to eat regular food anymore, or at least as much. But it didn't fill the special hunger that was eating away inside of me.

Werewolves ate a lot to keep up their energy. Vampires needed blood. So what I needed I had no clue. To try and fill my stomach, a couple days back I had eaten berries that I'd found in the forest. That's how I learned that my special hunger wasn't satisfied by regular food, but the rumbling in my stomach had been quenched.

I always avoided the werewolves, afraid that if I ran into them and Seth hadn't been forced to forget yet that he'd go mad. It was strange, but among the giant wolves that roamed the forest I could spot him out in an instant without having to confirm it with my eyes. His energy was just so bright it was like a beacon to me. I always made sure to make a wide berth around it when I felt it come into my range of 'sensing'.

During the day time I learned that I had to wear the shades I had gotten the old man to buy for me all the time. My eyes didn't adjust to the sunlight anymore and were super sensitive to the light. For a moment, I joked that maybe that's how the vampires not liking sunlight myth came from. It was all based on my kind. Even though it had been a joke, for a minute I actually considered it possible.

Hadn't there once been a myth that all vampires were pale and had white hair and red eyes? I didn't think I had the red eyes part, because no human I ever ran into ran away from me in fear, so I was safe in that department. Maybe I was just a special kind of vampire, I thought to myself. I considered tons of possibilites of what I could really be, but none of what I thought of sounded like my exact situation.

Before I knew it, eleven days had gone by. Time didn't seem to effect me anymore like it used to. I didn't mean that I figured out that I didn't age anymore, which I was still curious about, what I meant was a day was like five minutes to me.