michael's world has changed and changed again. the death of samantha seemingly a world and a lifetime away, years and years away. the boy who had not been able to save her, now a hybrid man trying his best to exist in a strange new world.
and strange it had been - waking up in a laboratory after being on ice for twelve years. time having past him by in a blink because he had not been awake to see it go. and then years on the run from humans, from rabid lycans who could sense his presence and had followed his trail half in hope, from vampires who hid in the shadows but knew his name and his story - who knew his role in the ending of their elders. but now he runs no longer.
he knows he had been assumed dead. taken by marius for his blood - the lycan dead now from the sound of it. but michael had gone into real hiding after that, only to re-emerge at the gossip of a new set of vampire elders chosen. one of which was selene. the news had given him hope of seeing her again.
and now - as foolish as it may be - he had come to the place where he knew vampires congregated the most, where rumors of selene had originated. a battle had occurred here not too long ago, vampires once more against lycan, and he knew he would not be well received if caught.
so he had waited until he could catch her out of the castle. a moment alone to step forth from the shadows and make his presence known. "selene," and the name is invoked with a lifetime of emotion. "i've been searching for you for a long time."
