The Guardian: The Return

The mirror is the first thing to change when you come back.

For three hundred years, Naya had no reflection. She moved through the world as an absence: faster than human, stronger than human, hungry in ways humans couldn't imagine. Then she killed the vampire who made her, walked into the dawn, and woke up ordinary.

Now she lives in a flat in London with no photographs on the walls. She preserves old letters written by dead people. She practices saying "thank you" in the right tone. She lies ...