A scene from part 2 of my Love Bites story. This is Teisel’s teenage daughter Eloise with the story’s villain, Stanley, aka The Nightcrawler. Eloise is a dhampir (the child of a vampire and a mortal) and is struggling with her body image/self worth. Stanley, seeking to bioengineer his own vampire, deceives Eloise and grooms her into becoming his test subject. Eloise is none the wiser and thinks he’s her friend, so she changes herself to appeal to him. This is the first clue that tips her family off that something is wrong.