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myself!”
    Cheleya looked up at her mother stunned. The girl liked magic and the transformation magic of the amulet was her favorite. On one hand she was a dutiful che’ther daughter, who only wished to have her mother support her, but on the other Sorqesta had just decided she hated everything that the girl loved.
    “But this is my collection. I need this. It is mine,” the daughter said forgetting about her need to transform and letting the amulet rest back on her chest on its chain.
    A che’ther had facial expressions though humans and mar’goyn’lya often seemed to miss or simply misunderstand them. For Cheleya, as her mother’s eyes squinted just an inch more, the girl new Sorqesta was turning furious. “And what of this? I have never seen this piece of wood before. Did you pay gold for it? Your father works hard to gain money and you waste it behind our backs. You probably stole that money from us too.”
    Before Cheleya could explain, the giant che’ther swatted her new chair against the far wall. Breaking into dozens of pieces, the girl watched as her work was destroyed in an instant of fury. Getting angry as well, Cheleya screamed, “I made that, mother! How dare you break my chair?”
    “How dare I?” the deep growl of her mother’s voice asked as her large head moved to face her daughter. Cheleya noticed for the first time that her small human body would probably fit between those jaws in a single bite with teeth longer than her forearm. Such teeth could tear her human form apart with little effort, she thought; and suddenly the girl felt fear. “This is my home and I rule it, Cheleya. You do as I say and I’ve warned you not to call me your mother when you look like that!”
    Reaching quickly for her pack, Cheleya looked up at the dragoness once more and retorted, “Perhaps I should never bother to call you mother again then! If I bring so much shame to this family, then maybe it is time for me to leave!”
    The blond haired magician turned and ran for the doorway. Dodging large clawed feet and a tail that could kill her with a single flick, the little human girl quickly fled.
    Sorqesta turned carefully to avoid harming her daughter despite her words. “Where would you go, Cheleya?” the dragoness questioned in surprise. A che’ther didn’t know how to show pain from emotions like her daughter in this little human shape caused her. She didn’t know how to soften her voice to soothe a teenage girl and her temperament made her question even trying to do so.
    “I will just go to the Academy. There are rooms there and then you don’t have to bother with your disappointment of a daughter. In fact, don’t call me your daughter anymore no matter what form I take. I am not your daughter anymore!” Cheleya screamed as her feet continued to run for the main doorway.
    Heavy steps and a shadow crossing the threshold announced the return of her father, Cor’Dargan. Seeing his shadow, Cheleya cried out, “Dragon wings!”
    Black wings formed echoing the girl’s bad mood and swept towards the floor propelling her into the air. Mere feet separated Cheleya from her father’s face as tears streamed down her cheeks. She barely spared the brown scaled che’ther a look as she passed him by and launched upward away from the house of her birth.
    “Cheleya?” Cor’Dargan queried the fleeing form. Spying his wife hurrying towards him, he could feel confusion and worry on the dragoness’s mind. “Sorqesta, what happened to Cheleya?”
    The blue che’ther halted in front of her husband unsure of how to answer. Cheleya loved her father more and they had a strong connection that she had never been able to build with the girl. She didn’t want to anger her husband by revealing the strong words she had for their daughter. She didn’t want to take responsibility for driving their first child away.
     
    Tears streamed down Cheleya’s cheeks and she was forced to scrub them away from her eyes to see. In her