Half Human [#Wattys2016]

Him,Human,Travis

As we leave the volcano in which the fire dwellings are, we began to chat.

He broke our almost minute silence by questioning me,"What are you?"

That's the sentence that I hate the most out of all the sentences made. It sends me into almost immediate frustration, but I say as calmly as possible without sudden rage because he seems ignorant, "My kind doesn't have a name. Some call us 'shape shifters', 'all animal' or 'half human'."

He looks at me puzzled as if an old wizard told him the ingredients to a potion out of nowhere. "You indeed look half human, but what are meanings of your other names?"

"My kind is called 'all animal' and are 'shape shifters' because," I pause to notice we are in a large meadow which when I turn left I see a hill in my horizon still part of the meadow and to my right I briefly see a forest. I thought to myself that after I tell him what and who I am we would have to head to the forest because it's dusk. "You know, I'll just show you." I turn into my form of a wolf as I step forward then run. I jump and turn into a dragon. I fly in a circle. When I land I change to a bear then back to my normal self.

Travis stood in awe.

"I can change into any animal at desire. Even part of an animal like if I'm a hawk I can roar as if I'm a lion."