He laughed as we played, his merry voice echoing in the shadows of the alley, but I had desires of my own, darker than any kiss.
I stalked his sly hiding places with care, drawn by the deadly essence that flickered within.
When I finally found her smiling form, I paused to savour these last moments of light.
My true form slowly faded like a receding mist, and my skeletal features emerged cold and unavoidable.
Her smile dissolved into screams as the pale moonlight revealed the infinite soul I had come to reclaim.
A single embrace was enough to extinguish that fleeting mortal life.
My kind knows no games, only the harvest to the end of all things.