Two birds of a feather

We took the elevator up to the main floor and for some reason everything looked brighter, clearer, and much more vibrant. We walked outside and I seemed to be distracted by everything and anything. My mom tapped me on the shoulder, "the car\'s this way honey."

"I know, but the light coming through the trees looks more interesting..."

My mom laughed taking the keys from me, "come on honey I\'ll drive us home..."

I followed her to the car, and we got in and drive off towards the house. As we rode down the street I felt like I was in a new part of town even though I use to drive through here almost every day.

"So do you have any questions, concerns, or comments?"

"What\'s up with my eyes?"

She laughed, which assured me that it was nothing to worry about... "It\'s nothing, because your abilities got awoken in the way they did every thing kind a came along at random..."

"Ah, so... what\'d Joan mean by witches and seers? What\'s a Seer anyway?"

"A seer is sort of a prophet, they see the future up until someone changes their mind. Seers have been allies of the elves for a couple centuries. And the witches and sorcerers have always had some type of feud with the seers because of some \'false info\' of the future that they gave them. But it was just a big misunderstanding because the person they wanted to prevent from killing someone they held dear decided to show up ten minutes earlier than the seers prediction... Basically someone died, and now they don\'t they care who they just want revenge or vengeance is more like it."

"Oh okay... So why do Joan\'s eyes do that to people? And what\'s with the star?"

"Well," she said, "Joan is what you would call an experiment... They tried to see if they could mix the blood of a fae, an elf, and some mermaid, which is where she got her eyes from... Mermaid\'s eyes are dangerous to anyone and everyone... They send you into hypnosis so the merfolk can basically capture you, eat you, and rape you, or turn you, but not exactly in that order..." She laughed sounding mischievous, "But about the blood obviously it worked, but since the doctors had mixed the three bloods in a weird way they reacted in a bad way when they touched anyone elses skin. It crystallized the whole body from one drop on the skin..."

"Damn, that sucks... So what happen?"

"She developed at an alarmingly fast rate: her nine months in the incubator turned into two months... When they took her out of the glass case the mist she let go from her pores killed the human doctors instantly... The council got a hold of her and they raised her teaching her how to control her abilities, basically making her into a deadly assassin. As a 25th birthday present they outlawed the experimentation on us and let her create feather\'s regional to watch over the town making sure we as mystical beings were staying in our lanes and not bothering the humans and vice versa..."

"So who is The Council?"

"They\'re the powers that be... Meaning they are sort of like our court system. From each mystical race a person is elected to talk for that whole race, but they must answer and listen to their queen, or king, or sometimes even both... It sort of works like the humans system... The people elect the members of the council, and the council members answer to their royal family, and the royal family usually talks to their people depending on what their views are whether or not they care what their people think, so basically everyone on the council is listening to their people and their respective royal families..."

She sighed just as we pulled up the drive way of the house she opened the garage pulled in as closed behind us.

"I\'m gonna take a quick shower, and a power nap, then I\'ll get started on dinner... And we can talk about what ever you want..." She turned off the car handing me the keys.

"I think I\'m gonna do the same..." We both smiled as we stepped out of the car and headed inside.

I passed through the dining room around the table through the living room. I hung a left passed the front door and headed upstairs I opened my door at the top of the stairs.

When I entered the room I noticed that my jacket was hung up on my closet door. It seemed to be weighing down the hanger like it weighed too much. I was thinking of taking out the weapons that were on the jacket, but I was tired even though I lost two days...

I almost headed for the shower, but my bed looked so much more appeasing. I dropped my keys on my white desk that was to the right of the door at the foot of my bed. I plopped down on my bed with my shoes still on and all my clothes. A moment later I tried to get comfortable so I kicked off my shoes, loosened my tie and fell asleep.