“I accidentally raised every animal in the freezer room,” I said miserably. “I’m even more of a freak than the Council thought.” I looked at Tanya. “What do you think will happen to me now?”
She sighed and her wings drooped sadly. “I’m sorry, Ronnie, but I think the Council will insist on keeping you here for a very long time.”
“That’s alright,” I said quietly. I’d done some heaving thinking in the hour since my freezer room incident, and I’d come to the same conclusion as the Council. I was too dangerous to let go now. If I could accidentally raise thirty or more animals today, what was to stop me from accidentally raising an entire graveyard? “I wanna stay now. It’ll be safest for everyone else if I’m locked up in here.”
“You won’t be locked up forever. The Council just wants to keep you here until you get your powers under control. That might not take too long. You’ll see,” Tanya said, playing nervously with her long blonde hair. Her eyes, so bright and normally reassuring, were looking at anything but me, and I got the feeling that she didn’t actually believe what she’d just said.
Ezra took over. “Listen, Ronnie, we all have power that we can’t always control. Any half-demon would be the first person to tell you that. There’s a lot of power inside of me, and every day is a fight for control. It’s hard at first, but it’ll get easier with time. You’ll learn to control this power, and use it for good.”
I sighed. “I don’t believe you.”
“I didn’t expect you to. At least, not yet. With time, you will, and you’ll see that living this kind of life isn’t so bad, especially if you have other supernaturals to help you along the way.”
“Right. If you guys don’t mind, I’m going to find my room and I’m gonna go lie down. The last forty-eight hours have just been…terrible. I really need some rest.” I got to my feet and Tanya waved goodbye as I left the waiting room.
Finn followed me out into the hall, acting as my ever present shadow, and I turned on him. “I’m not going to just make a mad dash for the nearest exit. You don’t have to follow me so closely!”
He grinned. “You couldn’t get by me if you tried, but I wasn’t actually worried about you making a run for it. I just wanted to tell you that they’re right. Things do get easier with time. Every one of us has been where you are at one point or another.”
I looked at him, surprised. “Are you actually being nice to me?”
He scoffed, and his eyes hardened, but I wondered if it was just for show. “Of course not. Ezra and Tanya are my friends, and I don’t want to see them get hurt because you’re a ticking time bomb.”
He turned around and left me alone in the hall. My bed called to me, and I found the second door down from me, opened it, and slipped inside. There was a bag of clothes on the edge of my bed, which I recognized as my clothing from home, and I sifted through the contents. Pulling out a pair of purple pajama bottoms and a tank top, I dressed in the dark, and crawled into bed.