What if supernatural creatures don’t exist anymore? What if they did once, but through the years, they mixed in with humans?

You can see the blood of fairies in the way a ballet dancer hovers in mid air before he or she hits the ground. You can see it in the way that middle school girl never forgets when someone makes her a promise.

You can see the blood of naiads in the way a professional swimmer seems to command the water to help them. You can see it in how a cross country runner needs a water break more often than his teammates.

You can see the blood of mermaids in a surfer who can be tossed around underwater for a long time without drowning. You can see it in a teenage boy who doesn’t have to pretend to be unbothered by the pressure when he races friends to the bottom of a pool.

You can see the blood of sirens in people who never have a problem with getting people to date them. You can see it in the camp counselor who all the straight girls have a crush on, who can play guitar and sing better than any of the others.

You can see the blood of shapeshifters in the way an actor adjusts their personality to become their character with scary accuracy.. You can see it in the way you always lose that one friend in a crowd if you’re not careful, because he’s just too good at blending in.

People who carry the blood of werewolves don’t change with the full moon anymore, but you can still see it in the way your best friend always knows something is wrong, they don’t know they’re smelling the changes in your body chemistry. In the way that one guy seems to eat more than the reasonable amount of red meat at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

The blood of supernatural creatures may have mostly faded away, by looking close you can still see it.

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Professor Miller spent years studying how supernatural blood affects humans, eventually opening a school with 150 students, whose purpose was unknown.

With a bit pushing a person can reconnect with the supernatural blood in their system bring abilities back