People say to cherish your life. What is the point when you live in constant fear of being found.

I run through the halls, my cat ears twitching, listening for any sound of pursuit. Not hearing any for the moment, I decide to make a detour. I stop and focus my demonic energy and create a tunnel in my mind out to the forest, soon appearing there. I pause to catch my breath before continuing my escape. You might ask what I'm running from and why, and the answer is simple. I am running away from my older brother Ethan, who is the head demon in an organization that controls other demons and makes them fight the human race. My name is Jayd Kihonari, and this is my story of how I escaped my death.

I stop at a small Inn, covering my ears with the hood of my sweatshirt, and making an attempt to hide my tail. Once I don it good enough I step up to the threshold and knock gently, hoping someone would answer. After waiting a few minutes I go to turn around just as the door opens and a gentleman around my age opens to door. Of course being me I stutter and just stare at him, noticing his eyes first. One is a bright shade of blue, almost like the sky on a sunny day, the other is a shade of emerald like I had never seen before. Next I notice that he has dark, black hair, and that he was grinning at me for some reason.

"can I help you miss?" he asks politely, glancing at a couple wondering the streets. Then, as soon as they pass, he grabs my wrist and pulls me inside, slamming the door. He pins me against the door and looks at me, "are you absolutely insane?" he asks.

I look at him confused for a moment before realizing that my hood had fallen off and that my cat ears were showing. I quickly attempt to hide them but he grabs my other wrist, making it impossible, "wh-what do you want?" I stutter.

"I want to know why you thought that you could wander around a human town with these hanging out," he says, touching my ears softly.

I gasp at the touch, never have had them touched before, and realizing the sensitivity of them. "I-I just need a place to stay the night, I thought that I had covered them up, and I was hoping that you wouldn't find out, please don't send me back, I cant go back I-"

He cuts me off by placing a finger against my lips shushing me, "I am not going to send you back, that place is hell on earth." He says smiling as suddenly his ears change into that of a wolf, and a long bushy tail appears behind him.

"what, but, wait." I stammer, trying to process everything. "you mean you're a demon too?"

He laughs at my shocked expression and lets go of my wrists, though still uncomfortably close, pinning me to the door still with his body. "yes I am a demon, why did you think I didn't instantly report you to the humans?"

I pause for a moment, realizing what he was saying. "well, yeah, but still, you looked human, how did you hide your demon parts?" I ask confused. I had never met someone who was able to do that.

"heh, it's a spell I got from a witch a few years back." He says finally stepping away, moving farther into the building. "so, you need a place to stay?" he asks.

I nod, forgetting for a moment that he wasn't looking at me and then I say, "uh, yeah, I was hoping you had an open room…" I trail off, realizing that the building was more of a normal house than an actual Inn.

"yes, actually I do, business has been slow recently, and I only have one other guest," he says whistling softly. Suddenly a cat comes running into the room meowing and I giggle softly and run over to it, petting it as it purrs softly.

"oh, what s it name?" I ask, watching the cat walk around in a circle around me.

"her name is Sophia, and she is the witch I was talking about, the other resident of my Inn." As her says this, the cat walks away before transforming into a tall, curvy woman of about thirty or so.

"why hello there, I don't believe that we have met, I am Sophia, the town psychic, but really I'm just a witch having some fun." She says giggling and walking over to the man.

Its then that I haven't even learned his name and I blush and bow quickly, "oh, uh, my name is Jayd, Jayd Kihonari." I say a bit to loudly and stand up, covering my mouth shyly.

The man laughs and bows back, "hello Jayd, I am Lunar Anatov."

Sophia laughs, "but you can call him lulu like I do." She giggles, "ha, I just rhymed, I'm a poet and I didn't know it." She then transforms back into a cat and walks back to the room she came from, all the while I could hear her in my mind laughing.

Lunar laughs softly and looks at me, "okay, I'll show you to your room so that you can… never mind I'll just show you to your room." He says walking over to a set of stairs, heading up them.

I followed him, not realizing that by doing so, I would change his life forever.