Interview with a Hybrid

Renald Davis told me his life story while measured his weight, height, and temperature, also his blood pressure. Even when I was taking swab samples of his mouth and nose. I was so engrossed in his storytelling that I stopped in my track a couple of times.

“I am a hybrid. My mom is a vampire and my dad is a werewolf,” he started, “Hybrids are kind of… an abomination to both beings. They have been at war since the very beginning.”

I stopped writing. Instead, I gave him my full attention.

“I was hidden for the first half a century. Lived in a small cottage in Norwegia to avoid both clans. We were happy. Just the three of us. My mother was even pregnant with my sister.”

When the curiosity hit me, I found it hard to resist questioning him about the basics of vampires and werewolves. He explained to me patiently that full-born vampires stop aging at the age of eighteen or nineteen. While vampires that were once humans