Chapter 37: Eyes
“When the remarkable turns bizarre, reason turns rancid" —American McGee.
A pair of crimson eyes stare back intensely at me, the white in my eyes completely replaced by scarlet. It looks as if I’m crying blood and the tears stuck in my eyeballs. Or if I’m having internal bleeding. Both cases seem unlikely, because I don’t feel any pain at all.
I let out the gasp that I’ve been holding in, and turn off my bloodlust state. Or at least I try to. It doesn’t seem to be going away, no matter how hard I will it.
Something is definitely acting up. Maybe it’s a side effect of me drinking a strigoi’s blood? More importantly, the leader of the strigoi’s blood. Which makes sense that it can affect my eyes to this degree.
I can’t show up looking like this. People will freak, and
