This is a short story.Saved by the hunger of a child, Ian is changing ... transforming into something not human. Something Old and undead. He struggles between two lives -- the side that still breathes, and the side that must feed on the living to exist.The real horror is being a man.Year 1809. Young boy is sent to war in which he doesn't want to fight. He learns about the cruelty and destruction in the battle of Tarvis. But at the same time he also grows up and becomes a man.