A nightmarish tale.

I had no idea why the panicked witches marked me at first.

But it didn't take me long to realize I'd been sacrificed to assuage the hunger of an insatiable incubus.

A man sentenced to haunt the Earth as a demon with a ravening hunger for human women.

He won't leave me alone.

How can I escape someone whom I can't even see until he's inside me. I can't touch until he's already feeling me.

No one can see him but me.

I can't make him stop.

And the longer this goes on the less sure I am that I want it to.

The Ravening (New Link)

I found myself closing the distance between us to kneel before Van. Pressing my lips to his. Unable to resist any longer. 


"I don't want you to be a demon." I pleaded. A tear escaping my eye. 


He pressed me back blinking slowly. Sadness heavy in his voice. "I can't change what I am, Zira. No more than this deer might rise and frolic away." 


He caught my cheeks and gave me a reassuring half smile. "But I'll love you the same, no matter what I am. Much as anything like me can. Forever." 


He's planning to leave me. I was now more certain than I'd ever been of anything in my life. And I couldn't remain silent. 


"No." I cried. Catching my skirt and lifting it to pounce on his lap. 


"Zira!" He laughed in objection as he teetered backward and had to catch himself on one palm and the other on my lower back. 


An Intruder