His eyes glowed too; a vibrant gold unlike either of the others. Hyperaware, she heard a shift in the leaves and snapped her gaze around — there were glowing eyes all around. Swallowing hard, she reached out to take his hand and jerked back in shock.
He had claws. And when he spoke she could see his fangs.
And yet, there was nothing different about the essential Isaac under the skin. He was exactly the same to her other sense as always. She reached out again, and curled her fingers around his firmly.
A pained, almost animalistic whimper escaped him as she pulled back and he knew then and there that she was disgusted with him. Wishing that she hadn’t wandered into the woods tonight, or that they had all been more careful, he sat back and ducked his head in shame, tremors coursing through his hunching body.
But then, he felt fingers wrap around his, and he blinked in bewilderment, too afraid yet to lift his head up to look her in the eye. “What…what are you…?” he stammered out and then trailed off.
“That’s something I’d like to know too,” another voice said. This figure had red eyes, red like fire, and yet somehow they didn’t frighten her the way the blue eyes did.
“Friend of yours, Isaac?” asked a third person — the owner of the blue eyes she’d almost run into.
Surrounded. She was surrounded by not-human creatures, and Isaac was one of them. She let him pull her to her feet, much more easily than she expected, and then cried out and crumpled the moment she tried to put weight on her foot.