Moonlight Over a Dog in Peril

For tonight’s tale, we find ourselves with a lone woman standing beneath a streetlight in front of a desolate field. There is nothing around her but the gravel street in front of her and the torn-up earth and abandoned construction equipment behind her. As she stands there, she is watched from a hole in the ground by a pair of auburn eyes. This particular shade of auburn does not naturally occur in humans, and the owner of those eyes would never claim to be human. For the owner of those eyes holds humans in such contempt that he refuses to have anything to do with them apart from feeding off of them. Yet this woman awakens a feeling in his heart that he has never known. As he watches her stand there alone, he grows concerned for her. This feeling evolves into an infatuation that makes him question his biological need to feed upon her. However, the evening takes a dramatic turn when she asks him for his aid. He soon finds himself amidst a calamity of her making, where he learns this woman has made some really bad choices in her life. He soon finds that his choice between protecting this woman and surviving was already made for him by a mind colder than the earthen hole he crawled out from.  This tale contains violence and themes of death, mutilation, and decomposition. Listener discretion is advised.