You realize life cannot go on as you have been living it, but turning the problem over and over in your head gets you nowhere. You find yourself again leaving the apartment to wander the streets, but you tell yourself it is just to clear your head, nothing more. Something is different from your last midnight stroll, however. While last time, you stumbled about in a daze, this time it feels like your hunger has served to sharpen your senses. As you moved towards the grimier parts of town, through the stench of waste along the street gutters you were beginning to pick out individual scents, and you could almost hear the heartbeats of the rats that scurried along the edge of the building across the way. While on your last walk, your senses had felt dulled, this time you were almost hazy from sensory overload.
You intend to mull over your current situation, but as you move down darker and darker streets, you become aware that you are being followed. Not just followed, more like stalked. Normally, you would become nervous and move towards a better-lit and safer area in town, but something in you feels a scornful thrill, mocking the fool who would dare such a thing. While your mind is screaming at your body to avoid trouble, you walk towards the darkest alleyways almost as though you are possessed. When you finally reach the pitch-black depths, you slow yourself and listen for the padding footsteps, which pause at the entrance to the alley, then suddenly lunge at you.
With a smooth movement you cannot begin to fathom, you swing yourself up at the instant the creature tries to clamp its jaws onto you, and lithely maneuver yourself onto its back, sinking your fangs into its hairy neck. It is not human, but some human turned into a creature, yet that makes no difference to you. Blood is blood.
It is only at this moment that the back of your mind realizes that you and the creature are not alone. You try your hardest to convince yourself to let go of the creature and flee, but your hunger is all-consuming. Your jaws remain greedily locked onto its neck as you slurp up the warm blood, despite the danger. Suddenly, a humanoid form drops down next to you.