Stray

Stray is a story about an immortal man named Ivanthat starts a new life with a woman named Muriel. While trying to live his new life he is haunted by flashbacks from his old life where he took advantage of people and eventually slauhtered them. He constantly makes refrences to his abilities that he is seeming to lose. He takes to the form of a black man in his new society and only his wife Muriel knows what he truly is. One day he encounters a white girl praying, so he takes the form of a white man to find out what she is praying about. He learns that she is a soon to be orphan. As he is talking to her his friend walks up and he is forces to go back to his black form. When he does this the girl freaks out and Ivan offers to take her in. When he brings her home, Muriel freaks out saying that people will not accept this. Eventually Ivan tells the girl she must go home and the story ends with her standing abandoned by god.