Chapter 31

If I hadn't spotted the road sign to the street in which I had recently lived, I don't know that I would have recognised the place. The houses were all there as they had been before, but what was once a place of uniform suburban perfection, was now drenched in darkness and I felt a tremor of fear ripple through me as I stood at the end of the road, as if it was not I who was the predator here, but the road itself and what it stood for. As I scanned the street, I could not help but feel uneasy as if I no longer belonged here in the place I had called home not so long ago. How quickly had I become a stranger to everything I had once known? After leaving the man's house, I had fled quickly, running with the shadows and keeping out of the light as much as I could. Every now and then a car would sweep its headlights over me and I would hide in shop doorways or alleys, not able to trust myself near people despite having satisfied my thirst already. I knew how quickly and easily