Nathalia: Fledgling 1

"Breathe deep.  As you exhale, you release yourself into the comfort of the smell of burning leaves.  You can hear the fire crackle.  That comforting warmth blended with the kiss of a cool autumn's breeze.   The smell releasing a world of color in your mind as you imagine the leaves of the autumn tree.  Breathe in once more, and you see the pumpkins carved and lit.  Another breath takes you to a smooth bite of pumpkin pie.  Each time your nostrils absorb the scent further transports you through the season until you reach home."
I allow the words to fool me, transport me, and take me away with them.  Opening my eyes, returns me into the sad reality reflected in the grey walls of my tomb.  I share truths about my week while silently denying the dark thoughts.  How sometimes I think about driving my car into the lake.  How sometimes I wonder how the blade would feel on my skin. Those thoughts I quietly tuck away from the sight of anyone.  I wouldn't really do those things.  I have no desire to do those things.  But I can't help to imagine what it would be like.  What would it be like to fall from the top balcony. With a flick of his spine-like tail, my cheek radiates with stinging pain.  "The sooner you admit whatever it is you hide and become more honest with me, the sooner we can end this nonsense."
I've spent months in his care.  He's been incredibly patient with me as I have stumbled through my new life.  He's taught me to reach my mind to animals, helped me to find my animal type for summoning, to see the auras and what the mean, to read the history of an object by it's touch, and even to speak and comprehend the English language.  With a deep sigh, I listen myself saying aloud the dark curiosities of my mind.  He just sits back, listening with a devilish grin spread across his face.  It feels difficult to place myself with the words escaping my mouth.   Andrei extends out his taloned hand, chuckling as he toys with the cross necklace that was given to me upon meeting the rest of the pack.
"If you're that curious about the various pains of life, I would be happy to meet those needs me princess," he hissed before plunging his talons into my scalp.
The sound that escapes me is a blend of pain and pleasure.  The sensation is so fresh and amazingly new, leaving me almost as quickly as it came.  Andrei smiles warmly at me as his arm extends to the wall on our right.  Plucking the mirror, he pulls it towards him and I can see what he's done.  My skull now forms points and curves, like a crown encircling my head.
"Now you can begin practice of manipulating the flesh and bones," the curl of his grin almost looks to spin more than once as he smiles. "The flesh and bones of yourself and of others my fledgling child."