it had taken me a while to realize that I now regarded everyone around me as prey. I made peace with it early on, though, and had rarely spared a thought about the subject since. But I should have, because when I looked into Gideon’s purple eyes, my brain slammed me with the realization that my mind had been too stupid to comprehend. Prey wasn’t the only thing that existed in the world around me. There were also predators.
