Book 1: Scene 3. Humans and Greed.

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Eros looks around at the small market around him, holding a list in his hand while he examines the items Eva told him to run and grab for tomorrow

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Eros looks around at the small market around him, holding a list in his hand while he examines the items Eva told him to run and grab for tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is February 14th, which means he will be turning 16.. or 112 years old. Eros chuckles to himself at the thought of him hitting over 100 in nonhuman years. 

Eros has grown in size in many ways, height, and build already at his age. His horns have fully developed, his fangs are full size, his hair is the mid-shoulder length where he wears it up in a messy bun when he's out of the house. His tail has developed and grown in length and strength, as well as an odd crystal looking object at the end of his tail that glows when he's emotional and lets not even mention how sharp it is. It's dangerous. His wings have doubled in size and are fully working at this point. They are a gorgeous black to red ombre where they sparkle in the middle of the night. Overall, most people mistake him for being older than he really is, but still, things in the village have been getting worse with people around him. 

He sighs heavily as he picks up a few apples from a man's produce stand before the man looks up and huffs. "You have a lot of nerves coming out to the market without your witch wielding grandmother. " Eros sighs in discomfort as he pulls out two silver coins before offering them to the man. "Two silver pieces will be good for three apples, correct?" Completely disregarding what the man at the stand said to him. The man chuckles before he shakes his head and holds up five fingers. Eros' eyes sadden before he sighs heavily, pulling out three more silver coins from his pocket and hands them over to the man. He chuckles happily before placing the coins in his pocket and winks at Eros. "Thank you for doing business with me, you nasty ass demon." 

The man throws an old fruit towards Eros who quickly dodges the blow and quickly scatters from the stand. Hearing the man complain and make complaints to other stands around him. The more Eros gets away from the stand, the less he can hear. He sadly chuckles as he looks down at the list, crossing off apples from the list. "Well, luckily my side job at night has been offering me good with money.. So money is not a worry to get the rest. Eva would be upset to hear of how bad the stands are getting with our money though.. Greedy pigs." 

Once he makes his way out of the market, he begins to walk back to the direction of home. As he does, he notices from the many years he has been here, the town has grown and tripled in size. The only difference though is the number of humans has declined. The whole village from the beginning used to be nothing but humans where Eros was the only oddball out. Now? There are at least multiple elves, a fairy or two, a vampire couple, then a werewolf, and her twelve kids. Its become quite lively and because of the festivals, many new people come around each weekend which brings new people here. 

He smiles to himself as he looks down at his feet every time they take a step, his tail swaying back and forth before he accidentally bumps into someone. He gasps and falls back onto his bum as he drops the basket of food. The person he bumps into gasps loudly and lends a hand out to Eros to help him up. Eros extends his hand out and he looks up to the mystery person with a nervous face. "I- I'm so sorry!! I wasn't looking where I was going. I got...distracted." Eros takes a look at the person he bumped into before his eyes widen slightly, the blood draining from his face as he laughs nervously.

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