The flash of light blinded me for at least a minute. I don’t even remember where I was when it came, it just came… and then I was blind. When vision returned to me, I found myself in a dark room. I thought I was still blind until my eyes adjusted.

“Hey! Where am I?” I called into the darkness. A deep voice laughed like I was the funniest thing since Chris Rock.

“Oh, my dear Anadia, you are home,” it said, sending chills down my spine. I shifted to where my human ears on the side of my head were catlike and on the top, and I had a tail. This was my true form. I knew the place looked familiar.

“How did you get me here without me noticing?”

“We have our ways, darling.”

“We? Who’s we? And don’t call me darling!”

“Fine. And by the way, no. He’s not going to ever like you.”

“Mean.”