Things get complicated. It's a fact of life on this planet. You fail an exam, your friends get in a fight. It happens and you have to deal with it. If you get fired you can't just flip out and sink into depression. You get another job. My kind of complicated of late has nothing to do with exams, touchy friends or lost jobs. My kind of complicated involves your typical kidnapping evil guy and his evil henchmen who most likely want to take over the world. Like I said, things happen and you have to deal with it, so I'll deal with it.

It happened when I got a call to go babysit. It was a normal enough call, no suspicious cackling or anything. When I got there though, the little boy was tied to a chair. Not exactly what I was expecting but I could have survived that had it not been for the man standing behind the chair. He looked normal, brown hair going gray, a nose that had been broken once, blue jeans and a gray button down  shirt. Even his smile was normal without even a hint of malice. The only thing that gave him away were his eyes. They were orange and as flat and vacant as a mouse squished on a highway. Strangely, they were also pupil less.

That was the last thing I remember.

I woke in an entirely white room on a metal bed and the back of my neck was killing me. I pushed back the covers and sat up. My neck was on fire and my mind was still cloudy with whatever they gave me.

I rubbed my eyes with the back of my hand and looked around. Still not my room. There was a window set high in one wall, a mirror, a metal set of shelves holding only a box and a heavy steel door with no handle. I walked to the mirror and held up my hair, squirming to see the back of my neck. I couldn't. 

I walked to the shelves and opened the flaps. Inside was a hand mirror and a note.

"Room 312, gender: female, age: sixteen, name: Moonleaf"

Using the hand mirror I squirmed around until, utilizing both mirrors, I could see the back of my neck. A fresh tattoo glistened on my skin. A crescent moon and an alder leaf.

Moonleaf.

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