A Creature Of The Night

• Yousra El-gaafarawy, Grade 10
• Short Story
• 2015

The best view in the world is the forest. You think you've seen a forest before. Well you thought wrong. This maybe the same forest you've seen but I see it in a different light. My green eyes scan the forest. I can see every detail in the forest. Every raindrop falling from a leaf. The water fall as white as crystal. Roses as red as blood. The trees so tall and thin mixed with thick trees. Leaves and bushes hiding many insects. I can hear the deers walking through the forest , the mountain lion running after one of them. I knew that the lion caught the deer because I heard its teeth sinking into the deers skin. I hear the water flowing rapidly through the river and falling off the water fall. I hear every single step the insects make. I smell the nature , the perfume of the roses, the green scent in the air. When I touch them I feel the different molecules in the nature, the softness of the roses , the thickness of the leaves, the roughness of the tree trunk. You see how I see it different, you don't see as much as detail as I do. That's because I'm not human, I may look like one but I'm not. I'm a creature of the night. A vampire.