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I was a little confused by their relationship in this piece. Is it before they've met? Has Trista had experiences with non-humans before. Darian makes some comment about it when he notices her window is open, that she should know better. Should she?
The prose seems really thick for this piece. It's quite beautiful in small amounts, but too much of a good thing can still be too much. It's kind of like dark chocolate: in small amounts, it's rich and satisfying, but eat an entire bowl of it and you're heading for a stomach ache. It's coming across as purple prose.
Darian took another drag of his treasured cancer stick, allowing the tension in his body to be replaced by his trusty nicotine mood regulator.
I like both of these descriptions, but stacked on top of one another as they are in this sentence, tit is just too much. Pick one or the other to remain in the sentence, then try putting the other somewhere else. As is, they are just competing for the reader's affection and each's awesomeness is cancelling out the other's.
I would write out the numbers. There's a rule dictating this, but I don't recall it exactly (plus it never seems to be written the same way twice anyway), so I'd just say try writing them all out. The numerals just look a little wonky.
Not a lot happened in this chapter. We've met the two characters, we know he is stalking her, but why? What happened to her before this? Why has he chosen to stalk her? I suppose you're going to tell us eventually, but as of right now, we know so little about the characters that just watching them go about their routines (strange as Darian's might be >.> ... <.<) is not incredibly enthralling. Give us something to chew on, some actual information rather than just subtle hints. Dangle a little meat and the readers will swarm to it and be hooked.
Keep on truckin'.
~GryphonFledgling
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