Modified: How It All Began (ORIGINAL)

7. New Home and Reunited

The familiar sound of footsteps shakes me from my blissful sleep but I stay still curled up underneath the blanket, I hear the door open and I slowly raise my head as Dr Crewe shuts the door behind her and makes her way over to me so she is hovering just to the side of me, she flicks her gaze over me as she pulls the familiar shape of a needle out from behind her, I bite back a sigh as I raise up out of the blanket to expose my left arm, the injection is over as quick as it started and she is soon shoving a plate of food under my nose which I quickly take and set in front of me, I expect her to turn and leave but instead she surprises me with a piece of paper which she holds in front of me to take, I furrow my eyebrows as I slowly take it and look up a her.
"Its what you would want for your new enclosure", she explains, I look back at the paper with wide eyes, oh how nice of them, she leaves with the click of the lock behind her and I begin to scan through it.
There's options for a waterfall and how tall or how much water I'd want in it, natural resources that even include natural soil with actual living worms and insects, a tree there's no options for how tall I'd like it, there is a side note saying that there is going to be at least a patch of grass in the enclosure and an option whether I'd like more, basically anything I wanted in there with a few restrictions obviously, too bad it's not free range.
I quickly fill it out ticking what I want and don't want in my new home, I cringe inwardly at even thinking of it as my new home.
I put the pen down and crack my knuckles as they begin to get achy from the lack of writing in the past few days, I look up and catch my reflection staring back at me seated on the bed with my tail idly dangling off the side, my eyes travel over to my shoulder to where I can see a tip of my wing showing, I stand and begin to walk over towards the mirror and decide to have a look at my new limbs.
Tears well up in my eyes as I notice how big my wings have got, I stretch them out as far as they can go they are at least three feet each and still looking like skinny little twigs.
I look at my tail that always is either swinging side to side or with a slight curl at the end, it tends to move if I'm nervous, scared or excited, but it's the same movement, if I'm angry however my whole tail moves side to side pretty violently, if I notice it I can stop it but if I don't concentrate on it it will start to move again.
A bit like a cats tail, ironic.
I also notice little pin feathers start to creep down the length of my wings, so I look at my tail to see if there is anything growing out of my tail that I should know about, but there is only a few pin feathers from the base of my tail that travel down an inch then stop in a perfect line.
I bring my tail up and smooth it downwards, nothing but then I decide to smooth the opposite direction, it's rough and very prickly like a few days after shaving, I bring the tip up close to my face to find tiny compacts hairs starting to cover my skin, I let it drop from my face and notice that it's turned darker in colour and less pink.

After checking myself over for anything new I settle back down on the bed and begin to eat, after I finished I go back to my colouring. After finishing my second picture I hear Dr Crewe's ominous footsteps closing in onto my room, I blow out a breath as my muscles begin to stiffen as the lock clicks, I look up as she waltzes in, I automatically stand as I'm led out and into the hallway, I hear Dr Crewe take an intake of breath as she is about to speak.
"You will be moved to your new enclosure tomorrow, you won't be having a companion until they have finished growing though" she states as she flicks her gaze behind me, I look forward as we enter the room, I'm silent at the thought of even possibly seeing Lizzy but it might not even be her.
I'm laying flat on my face again as they begin to maneuver my tail and wings about making them ache at the unwanted movement, I note to start to moving them about more and exercise them just to stop the achyness, Dr Crewe jabs me with the three needles again and after drops me off back at my room with a plate of food as usual.
I quickly eat my food and set the plate by the door and turn in front of the mirror,
"Ok how are we going to do this" I mutter as I look myself over, I turn to the side so I can see my wings and begin to focus on moving them, I successfully move them making them do similar movements to wings flaps and making them go up straight to my head and lie flat against my back, after a few repetitions of flapping, tensing and relaxing, I go to work on the movement of my tail, I can more or less move it in every direction, my muscles would start to cramp up if I move my tail to far in one direction, I'll need to work on that.
After a bit of colouring I decide to do a bit more exercises, after two rounds with both wings and tail I hear the familiar sound of footsteps echoeing towards my room, my eyebrows knit together as I realise this is the third time today, so I quickly sit down and gather my colouring stuff as the lock turns and the door opens. I look up as I see the familiar face of Dr Crewe once again,
"Here are some photos of your new enclosure, are they up to your standards?" she gently asks holding out her hands with pictures, I pick them up and scan over them, they do indeed look pretty dreamy, there is a big tree, a waterfall with a little pond at the bottom and it is all covered with healthy green grass, I nod with a slight smile and hand her back the pictures, she gives me a light smile and hurries out the door.