I thought for a moment. Ethan wanted me to tell him something about myself. Life before Ethan. It was hard to image that only a few days ago, I had been pimping myself out to make money. A part of me didn't want Ethan to know that part of me. It was embarrassing. I had acted so immaturely.
"Well," I started as we stopped to pause at some of the different decorations that were strewn about the castle. It was a lot cooler here, and my arms were beginning to get goose bumps. "As you know, I can shape shift." Just to demonstrate that I could, I shifted into a fire nymph I had befriended years back.
My skin was more orange than anything, and the skin radiated heat, warming me up and probably Ethan, too. I was shorter now, barely five feet, my hair turned a fiery, brilliant red as it tumbled down my back in waves. My yellow eyes turned to Ethan to see his reaction.
My shifting always seemed to take him a bit by surprise, but he never appeared scared or repulsed by the morphing phase. It wasn't always pretty watching one face morph into something completely different.
Ethan nodded. "How many different forms can you morph into?"
I thought for a moment as the different people flashed through my head. "Countless. All I have to do is touch a person, and I can morph into them. And that includes animals, so I can do a lot of different people. After my parents kicked me out, I traveled around a lot to try and find the most powerful beings to have in my arsenal. I needed to find a place to call my own, away from my family." I pulled Ethan to another statue.
"Did your family not understand your ability?" Ethan asked gently after a moment of reflection.
I nodded my head, my hair falling over my shoulder. I tucked one side behind me ear. "Not at all. They feared it actually and became weary of me because I could literally be anyone. But what broke the straw on the camel's back was that I was kind of a rebel."
"You?" Ethan said with mock surprise. "No!"
I smiled and punched him lightly on the arm. "I was just tired of people hating me for an ability I couldn't control growing up. I'd just sneeze sometimes, and I'd change into the last person I had touched. I was tired of getting rocks thrown at me and getting beaten up after school. I wasn't getting the best grades in school because I was too busy hooking up with the football team to give a shit about anything else. They'd pay me to shift into the hottest girls in school or the town and sleep with me." I shrugged. "Not my proudest moment. But I used the money for my travel money. My parents couldn't handle the fact I never listened, so they kicked me out. I dropped out of school, I just walked."
It had been years since I had talked about my life growing up, but it was surprisingly therapeutic to talk about it with Ethan. I was beginning to understand just how much he was really good for me. "So, tell me about life with you and Erela. What was life like before you met me?"
