Ash's Pov.

She's late. The plan was simple. We meet here at our favorite spot in the park at midnight. Well here I am waiting in the park on this warm clear starry night and she's late. A soft breeze tickles the nape of my neck and my ears fall flat against my head as I bolt up. It's been too long. She is too late. Something is wrong.

You see we live in a world of pure-bloods and half-breeds. When our society first started there were only pure-bloods and humans. The two lived side by side peacefully but were forbidden to mate with each other. After a while they started to break the rules and gave birth to half-breeds. Originally half-breeds were hunted but eventually after lots of fighting they were accepted. The pure-bloods are the upper class and are quite rich and usually only become friends with humans. While half-breeds are the middle and lower classes. Within our society there are a few half-breeds that are rare, such as unicorns, dragons or pegasus. And if you were to mix two together such as a dragon and a unicorn then you would get the rarest type.

But you see I am simple. I am 10 and the result of two wolf half-breeds, my parents I suppose you could call them but to me they are just the reason that I am alive. They are always busy and when they aren't they are drinking. I suppose I am lucky that they are only neglective. My next door neighbour and best friend's uncle is abusive and when he gets drunk he beats her.

We have become each other's safe place. I keep her away and safe from her uncle and she gives me attention and scratches me behind my ears. For about a month now we have been planning to escape and run to my uncle's house. He is the only other family I have and he is loving and rich (but purely because he is close friends with a pure-blood)

So you see her being this late doesn't make sense. It means something is wrong because she was more excited than me to escape and run away. I bolt up and start running as fast as I can to her house. The whole street is dark, all the lights are off, except one. Her living room light. I quietly sneak up to the window and look in and I freeze. Her uncle is wasted and busy beating her dead body with a cane. For a minute I can't move all I see is her life-less body and then I'm moving. Running to my uncle, running to safety and love and most importantly running away from that image and my past.