She smelled the blood before she saw him.
It was the smell of a fresh kill and it beckoned to her like a moth to a flame. Only, she has much more control than that. Her stomach does not ache with hunger, but every other part of her aches for chaos always. She will gladly kill for the fun of it, to see her victim squirm or the terror light up in their eyes. She is all powerful then, a true adrenaline rush. It reminds her how much better her new body is than before. She no longer needs her wings to work to feel alive, she just needs the sea and something to sink her teeth into.
So that is mostly what draws her in, slowly, carefully. She watches from afar and sees a man, but it's not just any man. It's him and he's eating meat by her sea.
That's when she knows.
At first, she wants to laugh at the irony. How before he turned away her offer to feast and now he's the one who is having a feast of his own. He doesn't look too impressed either.
Then again, maybe neither is she.
When she emerges from the sea, her legs take shape again and the weight of her useless wings returns as her fins disappear. The sun shines against her coat that is soaked in sea salt water, but it's absent of the glittering scales she has underneath. If it weren't for her sharp teeth, she would probably look like any ordinary pegasus.
And he no longer looks like any ordinary stallion. There is blood on his face and she has half a mind to lean in and have a taste herself. The corpse has since been dragged back into the hungry sea so it's just the two of them.
"I'm offended you didn't ask me to turn you," she says, her tone only slightly cold as she watches him with glowing eyes and a smirk to her lips. If anything, she feels more alive knowing he is one of them. There are so many more possibilities now.
But first, she must know. "Who did it?"
If he had asked her to turn him, she would have in a heartbeat. Of course, being a kelpie doesn't mean she doesn't still want to bring her teeth to his throat.
And she might if the name he spits out is Anandi.
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