Hit and Run

Emma has only ever seen him in dreams, which is strange because she read somewhere that the human brain can't create new faces; it just pulls from the features of strangers. But she would've remembered his face if she'd ever seen it on a human: eyes that protrude from their sockets; thick eyebrows that meet above his painfully crooked nose; curly, mussed hair that cascades around his cheeks; skin so grimy she's not sure of its native color; and a shiny scar that bisects his lips, starting to the left of his nose and ending at his chin.