"Pet." My Mistress stated and this time I was able to look at her. I felt guilty and it became worse when I saw her unimpressed expression. "What happened?"

"I saw the girl again." I told her and frowned as I thought of what she had told me. "She said that I was fighting it. Fighting the mana that wanted to use me. She said I was being a container when I was meant to be a conductor."

"Beatrice told me what happened when your first came here to this garden. Was it the same girl?" My Mistress asked no longer looking unimpressed with me, which I was thankful for.

"Yes Mistress. She said that I was a being of mana, that it is me and I am it." I answered her.

My Mistress was silent for a little before she spoke up again. "What do you do when you say a spell?"

"Well I no longer have to actually speak a spell, but I usually pull in the mana from around me then release it when I know what I want it to do." I answer.

"Yes, that's what you would normally have to do and it does sound like you're trapping the mana inside you when you don't exactly have to." My Mistress said sounding like she was thinking out loud. "Why don't you try preforming a spell without pulling in any mana but use the mana that is already around you?"

I frowned slightly in thought wondering if that would actually work or not. "Yes Mistress." I reply anyway.

I breathe in and think of a spell. I had to force myself to not reach out and pull in mana but soon enough I felt the mana that around me start to move and was ready to do as I wish. As I breathed out the pain I was feeling in my chest and head was released and the crazy hunger I was feeling went away. All around us the air became cold and small butterflies made of ice were formed with just a thought from me. They started fluttering around with yet another thought. There were about twenty of them.

I didn't feel drained after creating such a large amount of butterflies, I felt like I never did a spell at all. I stood up then and felt completely rejuvenated. I felt the mana around me fill me but this time it didn't hurt and feel as heavy and weighted as before. It just felt like I was breathing in normal air.

"Well that's something." I heard my Mistress murmur and I looked at her to see her looking back at me, though she was looking at the side of my neck.

Confused I lifted my hand to my neck and felt the familiar jagged skin of a scar. Confused and without being aware of thinking it, a mirror appeared in front of me and I was able to see that an old scar I use to have when I was human had reappeared. It was hand-width in length and partially covered my neck and shoulder. It was the scar that I had received the night my parents died. It had disappeared when I was changed into a nightwalker.

Just above the scar on my neck, just under my jaw, a birthmark I never had marred my skin in the shape of a crescent moon. I looked over my body after these revelations but saw that no other scars from my past had come back and there were no other strange markings either. I wonder why that scar came back and that birthmark appeared...

I didn't move when my Mistress lifted a hand and touched the scar and mark with soft fingers. "How did you get this scar?" She finally asked.

"I don't necessarily remember, but I know that I got it when my parents died when I was younger and that's why I was on the streets in the first place." I answered her.

"I wonder why it came back..." She murmured to herself eyes narrowed on my neck making me feel nervous. "I can barely feel your presence. If we weren't connected as we are I wouldn't be able to feel you at all. You're just like the air around us."

"I think it's because of the mana that's running through me, like I'm not a solid being." I commented not really understanding it myself.

"Hmm." My Mistress looked thoughtful some more before smiling like she just thought of a great, and very clever, idea. "That will be very useful. I guess it's time to put you into better use. From now on you can continue your lessons with Beatrice and Galen, you'll go on hunts and will accompany me to wherever I need to go outside of the estate as my personal body guard."

I was surprised by the sudden amount of work I was being assigned. "Yes Mistress." I agreed though without question.

"Fantastic." My Mistress smiled and started walking away back towards the mansion just as Lady Beatrice was coming down.

"Aviva." Lady Beatrice greeted her sister who returned it with a smooth and quite pleased smile before continuing on her way.

"Good morning Lady Beatrice." I greeted her with a short bow.

Lady Beatrice seemed to start a little in shock, seeming to not expecting me to be standing there. She eyed me up and down before relaxing. "Good morning, how are you feeling? I know that it is hard for newly created nightwalkers during their first full moon."

"I was not doing so well at first, but I'm perfectly fine now, my lady." I smile softly.

"Yes, then you're ready?" She then asked placing the books she carried onto the stone table and sat on the stone bench.

"Yes my lady. Umm, may I ask where Mercy is?" I asked as I sat across from her and took one of the books to start reading the spells.

"She's getting ready to be changed. I'll be changing her when the moon is at it's peak... what happened to your neck?" Lady Beatrice frowned when she spotted my scar.

I placed a hand to it feeling the jagged skin. "I'm not too sure why it came back but when I was first changed it disappeared along with the others. It's from when my parents were killed, I don't exactly know how it happened but I know I've had it for most of my life."

"Do you remember your parents?" Lady Beatrice asked quietly.

I shook my head. "No, my lady... do you?"

Lady Beatrice let out a small smile. "Not all that well, but from what I can remember they were wonderful humans. They died within the week of each other from old age. They had good lives and they were amazing parents to Aviva and I."

"They sound lovely." I tell her honestly and received a soft smile and nod in reply before we both started reading.

Sylvia turned up around noon and I was able to apologise to her for my actions and tell her why I suddenly had a scar on my neck and shoulder. I also asked her about Anon and she said that he hasn't left his room yet. I told her about Mercy as well before leaving her to continue memorising spells.

The sun was setting by the time we packed up and headed back to the mansion when lady Beatrice said that she had to go prepare some things for Mercy's changing. I wonder if she's going to be okay. I hope she's not like the other nightwalkers and can't control her hunger, though I'll help her if she asks or even if she doesn't.

Sylvia and I walked back to the estate slowly taking our time since we had no rush to be anywhere. "I've been meaning to ask..." Sylvia suddenly started making my attention go onto her though my eyes were still on the full moon that I found enchanting. "How is it that I can see you but not feel you at all? I know I'm just a human, but even humans have a slight consciousness of others around them. You give off nothing."

I smiled softly and glanced at her. "Truthfully, I have no idea, but I think it has something to do with the pure mana running through me like I'm just another empty space."

"That's confusing." Sylvia frowned making me laugh in agreement.

"Yeah, you're not the only one."

"Also..." Sylvia started but stopped seeming to think over her next words carefully. "The hunt last night... What type of hunt was it for you to come back with a shifter and an arrow to have wounded you. I doubt lord Galen would have shot you for no reason."

I frowned as I remembered the human Hunters that had cruelly pinned Anon to the carriage and how I had killed two of them without a second thought. Was I no longer as human as I thought? Will my compassion and human morals also start to disappear or change? That's truly worrying. I don't want to turn heartless and cruel...

"My lady?" Sylvia prodded me from my thoughts.

I sighed softly and shook my thoughts away. "What do you know about my Mistress's district?"

Sylvia frowned lightly but answered anyway. "Not much, all I know is that the oldest and strongest of supernaturals have districts that are theirs, like a shifter packs territory. Lady Aviva's district is quite large and is said to be an almost safe haven for all types of supernaturals. There are three districts that surround lady Aviva's. A shifter pack who's Alpha is a man named Rurisk Hunter, another nightwalker man named Santano Enrique, and the last is a witch queen named Nikita Dune."

"Hmm, well you know more than me for sure." I commented having never heard of these people before.

Sylvia shrugged at my comment. "I hear a lot from the gossiping servants. What does this have to do with the hunt you went on?"

"Do you know why my Mistress's district is an almost safe haven?" I then asked.

Sylvia huffed making me chuckle at how irked she was getting from me not just answering her questions. "No, I don't know. Something about the human Hunters and that lady Aviva has a squad that goes and saves any supernatural that is captured by them..." Sylvia's eyes widened and I stopped two paces ahead of her when she did. I turned to her with a grim look. "Y-you killed them..." Sylvia stuttered looking horrified.

I grimaced and looked away from her. "You weren't there Sylvia. They had Anon chained in his wolf form, it was disgusting and cruel. No creature, human or otherwise, should ever be treated like that."

"So you killed them?" Sylvia exclaimed and I wondered why she was acting as she was.

"Truthfully, it's not like I had a choice. Galen was with me and I was ordered to do as I was told. My Mistress ordered me to do as I was told and I will not go against her." I told sylvia seriously and feeling resolute in my decision to continue killing the human Hunters if I am told to. Though I would highly appreciate it if I didn't have to.

"You always have a choice!" Sylvia shouted. "You're not chained to her! She wasn't even there! You didn't have to do anything you didn't want to do."

I gritted my teeth and averted my eyes from her to look up at the moon. "You don't understand Sylvia. No she wasn't there, no I'm not physically chained to her but she has a stronger hold on me than you can ever know... She has my vow, she has my pledge, she has my word that I will serve her till the day I die and I can never break that..." It was deathly silent between us before I looked back at her seriously as I remembered how Anon had those spikes imbedded into his body so cruelly. "And who says I didn't want to kill them? You didn't see what they did to him Sylvia, you just weren't there."

Sylvia shook her head as tears dribbled down her cheeks. "How could you? They were only human."

I clenched my jaw tightly and felt an unusual anger towards Sylvia I didn't think I could ever feel towards anyone. My fangs elongated and my eyes brightened. "It doesn't matter if they were 'only humans'! You have no idea how cruel humans can be, no idea! Even when I was human I experienced first hand, multiple times, how humans can be a thousand times crueler than any supernatural creature. I watched my parents die! I had my body violated too many times to count! I was denied food when I was on my knees begging with only skin hanging from my bones! I was thrown out of the healers hut when I was sick with a fever because I was only a street rat! Children cursed and threw rocks at me as I passed for no reason other than because I wasn't as privileged them! You cannot tell me that they didn't deserve to die for what they were doing to Anon because they were 'only human'!"

I've never been so pissed in my life. I've never felt animosity towards those from my past but for Sylvia to try and excuse those Hunters action because they were human, really made me wish I could sink my fangs into every one of those humans that caused me so much pain in my past.

A darkness filled my vision and I felt just an overall feeling of insanity wrap around me. The mana around and inside me fled from the darkness and a disgusting feeling came over me when I was empty of the beautiful life that was pure mana.

"I'm sorry." Sylvia whispered her tearful eyes wide as she looked at me with an expression I couldn't recognise at the moment.

Really, I didn't realise that was all I wanted to hear until she said it. I calmed down and was happy when the disgusting feeling disappeared along with the insanity filled darkness that clouded my vision.

I breathed out slowly as my body relaxed. My fangs were still elongated and eyes still bright but overall I was back to being me. "I'm sorry I went off at you like that." I apologised as a guilt filled me and I was unable to look at her, ashamed by my outburst.

"I'm sorry too, I didn't mean to get so defensive and shout at you either." Sylvia apologised softly. "I just don't like it that you killed someone."

I looked at the ground. "I knew inside me that it was going to happen one day, me having to kill someone... I mean I was being trained how to, so I guess I knew it was going to happen."

Sylvia stepped up to me and we hugged but I felt her unease in the tenseness of her body, something has changed in our relationship. I don't like it, but I guess I should have expected it when she defended those humans. I sighed and hugged her tightly one last time before pulling away.

"You no longer have to stay in my room, or as my friend, we can just stay as... well whatever we would have been if we never became friends." I murmured softly.

Sylvia sucked in a shaky breath. "I'm sorry my lady."

I gave her a tight smile even as my chest hurt, I've just lost my first ever friend. "It's fine, we should get going."

"Yeah... okay." She agreed and we made it to the hallway leading to my room and I watched as Sylvia walked off towards the servant quarters. I walked into my empty room and felt like crying. I leant my back against the door and hugged myself tight as a coldness came over me making me shiver.

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