Carmen Gray is an 16 year old boy who has never seemed to fit in with his classmates, being called a "monster" or a "freak" all his life because of the small mistakes he made, and the way he looked so different from his whole family. He always tries to ignore the people from the big vine-covered school he went to, but sometimes it gets really hard. Sadly, his life takes an unexpected turn when his parents sign the papers.
Maxxy was tired of running away from the hunters, playing some game like cops and robbers. It had been years, surely, and all he had been doing was running around in circles in this neverending forest. He knew he shouldn't exist- being a monster was hard enough, but being someone of his species was even worse. They had cut one horn and one of his ears off, each from different sides, which left him looking so broken. Soon enough, someone who wasn't a hunter showed himself, and he had thought he was saved, he made the mistake of trusting the man, and now he's where he is now.
Mom had left him all alone on the muddy streets, saying that he was "bad luck", he constantly had to do things that even he, at his young age, knew were wrong, simply to keep from starving. He always had an empty feeling in stomach, like someone had taken all his guts out and left his body there- and usually he couldn't even talk, his throat was too dry, it felt like he was swallowing sand every time he breathed. It could have been months, maybe even years of being ignored, before someone took him in an old rusty truck, hollow and empty.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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