Lily walked through the forest toward the castle. All the way, she was thinking to herself, "why does my father want me? He allowed me to runaway from the castle & stay way for well over 7 months. Why now? Why now does he wish to see me? Does he want me back in the castle? No! Not in 50 vampires lifetimes. I will never return. My father has shamed himself by falling in love with a human. & here now I stand, a hybrid of a vampire & a human, shunned from the world."
"Mistress Lily" Shingo interrupted.
"Yes, Shingo?"
"We must take a different route. There is a battle between a battalion of werebeings & humans. We must avoid that battle ground. I saw them on the way to your hut." Shingo advised.
"So... since I left... The war has not subsided. & humans have joined into our affairs?"
"Yes. Ever since more & more humans have mingled w/ the werebeings & vampires, & more & more hybrids, like yourself, have appeared, the humans were slowly engulfed into the war as the other members of the of there werebeing or vampire tribes found out what has happened. So humans had to protect themselves against the assaults of both vampires & werebeings."
"A shame." Lily said solemnly.
The bushes rustled behind them.
"What was that?!" Lily whispered as she turned around.
"I don't know. Be on your guard & let's go w/ haste." Shingo advised.
"O-ok." & she hurried forward. But it still seemed to follow her.