I've been sitting here for a long time, how long I'm not sure. I've lived in this white room all my life with no connection to outside civilization. I can't even here if there's anyone outside this mansion. I know it's a mansion from memories of the day I was brought here. My mother couldn't care for me I was different from her two other children and she couldn't handle it. I was told each day by the nurse who cared for me that I was a bastard child and that's why my siblings were loved and I wasn't. I always ask her what love is but she doesn't want to tell me instead she says, 'Hijiri, why should you know about something you'll never experience?'. She brings me my food, sometimes she spits in it. She thinks I don't know but she's not there to see when I flush it down the toilet. I rather starve than eat anything soiled by that disgusting woman. She is the only woman I've seen in this place which leads me to believe all women are hateful and ugly. My mother was and she is so why would any other woman be different? She hasn't come to bring me food today and my stomach is grumbling. I might faint if I don't get food soon, it's been days since my last meal. I have no sense of time but my body knows when it's been too long since I've been nourished. I just had to smack that guard when he tried to cut my long black hair. This was my punishment no food and no company till I let them cut my hair, which I never would. They would eventually come to take me to bathe and feed me because I was still useful to them they couldn't let me die. I was a freak of nature so they had to figure out why and if it could happen to any other child. I already knew there were other children like me in the world they had contacted me telepathically. They were smarter than I was they never lifted an object thrice their weight when they were four mentally. I should've known my mom would react the way she did but I lifted it to prevent it from falling on Kaguri. I thought she'd be happy that I'd saved my older sister but instead she fainted then brought me here the next day. I'm a teenager now that's what Nurse Witan said. She explained to me that I might start having sexual fantasies of her now that my hormones were in high gear. I laughed hysterically which made her leave before she could tell me anything of use. That was when there were still leaves on the trees. I have only this little window to see the outside world and even it doesn't give me much. All I can see is the tree that blocks out whatever is beyond this mansion.

My thoughts of joining the outside world are cut short when I hear noises in the hall. Soft humming mingles with heavy footsteps. I know those heavy steps to be that of the burly guard who tried to butcher my hair but the other's steps are so light I can't hear them. It's impossible for I'm able to pick up any noise made within the walls of this mansion. If there is no noise of the steps the person must be floating. It has to be another like me so that means the boy must have died. I remember they only had a limited number of guinea pigs here and most have died. Only me and the boy were left. He was only ten so did not have as strong a barrier for pain as I did. They had said they weren't going to take on a new test subject till one died. I'm still alive Jade. He was so young and still didn't know much about his supposed gifts. The humming seems to be a depressing tune and it's not helping ease the pain I feel at the loss of Jade.

A sickening thud resounds in my ears and the humming stops. A door slams and I hear the springs of a bed. There is someone in the room next to mine jumping on a bed. The sound is light telling me the person is small framed. The sound stops only to be replaced by the harmonic tune of a harp and a feminine voice singing an emotion filled ballad. It is of a love unrequited and forgotten by time but remembered by only her. The music continues as the sun sets and I lie on my bed letting the notes carry me to a peaceful slumber. I awake to a hand on my bare chest, Nurse Witan doesn't think I need a blanket even though I can see my breath in the cold air. The hand is warm and I'm tempted to see if the body is just as warm. I look up into a fragile female face. The details of her face are very soft yet there is a sharpness to it. Her pale blue eyes seem to be piercing into my dark green ones and I can't say anything. I want to question how she got in here without me hearing the click of the lock being opened but I can't. She lays down next to me and places her arms at my waist and her head full of gold hair on my chest. She's so warm that I can't help but curl up to her. I didn't realize just how cold it was till there was a source of heat in the room. I blush starting to feel embarrassed of my state of nudity now that there is a fully clothed female in my room. If it was Nurse Witan I wouldn't care I'd get up and jump on the bed to make her squeal and run away but this girl was new to me. This girl was beautiful nothing like Nurse Witan. Nurse Witan had hair an ugly shade of yellow that almost looked white and eyes blacker than the night sky. She starts singing in a language that I can't decipher even though I have learned every language there is to know. My intelligence seems to disappear in this situation. What the hell happened to that far above average IQ of mine? She rubs her cheek against my side and sighs contentedly. I shiver but don't try to pull away instead I find myself pulling her closer. She kissed my forehead then gets up. I try to follow her but she pushes me back onto the bed. She turns to the wall that adjoins our rooms and walks towards it. I expected her to slam into it but instead she walks right through it. A hand sticks out of the wall holding a folded blanket and a note. I take the items and the hand disappears.

'My name is Anisole. I have been searching for you, Hijiri Dainsuke. Take this blanket for I do not want you to freeze. Good night.' I place the note under my mattress so Nurse Witan won't find it whenever she's forced to come get me for my bath. The blanket I wrap around myself but it doesn't provide the same warmth that Anisole did. I can hear her singing again in the next room and as it did before it lulls me to sleep.

My second awakening wasn't as nice as the first but I bear with it. Nurse Witan drags me out of bed and decides to confiscate my blanket. She knows it to be that of Anisole and plans to put the newcomer under punishment and surveillance. She just like I was before is curious how she got into my room but I won't tell her the girl can walk through walls. I hope she maybe able to walk us right out of this damn place. I am being taken for my bath and Nurse Witan says that by the way I smell it's needed. She was surprised to find me this morning with a blanket but even more surprised was she to see it was tented. I had actually felt ashamed for once of my nudity in front of her because she had seen me excited and thought it was about her. That thought couldn't be more laughable. I had been thinking of Anisole and how she had seemed to be at perfect ease with my nudity and that had led to her nudity. I could only imagine what lay underneath that silk nightgown of hers. I was made to walk the halls with my arousal still showing and I tried my best to will it away but it didn't work. The guards laughed and pointed at me one spitting out the coffee he'd been drinking. Anger was rising and I knew I wouldn't be able to control it.

"Stop laughing at me!" I screamed making the entire house shake. Nurse Witan fell and then slipped into a hole in the ground. The guards tried to catch her but they just fell with her. I stood in the room my feet floating in the air still screaming making everything bend away from me. Someone came up behind me, the only thing able to withstand my rage. A finger was placed over my mouth and someone whispered hush into my ear. I relaxed as a soft body molded to mine from behind. The hand that had been on my cheek waved around in front of me undoing the destruction I had caused. The guards and Nurse Witan stared in silent awe at the one who had saved their lives or in the case of Nurse Witan brought her back to life after she'd been pierced in the chest with one of the bars to keep me from escaping. I had never shown such a destructive power before and it frightened me more than it did the ones I had almost killed. I turned to face Anisole and her face displayed concern for me. She stepped back and put her arms in the air in a V shape. The sky blue bellowing sleeves of her dress slid down to her elbows revealing the bandages she had on her arms. I felt myself being lifted up and away from the group. She was floating towards her room making me follow her. I heard one of the guards whisper to call in the special unit but then I could only hear Anisole singing. I was laid down on her bed and she waved a hand over my body. I could feel silk against my skin, it had been so long since I had any clothes. After I had gone through a growth spurt I hadn't had any new clothes because they only had clothes for children not a boy of five foot ten.

"How can you be so powerful?" She didn't answer me merely sat on the edge of the bed her back to me, her face hidden by curtains of gold hair. I sat up to get a better look at her. She was crying, I had never seen anyone cry before. She threw her arms around me and cried into my shoulder. I didn't know what to do.

"I've waited so long and I've finally found you but I fear I was much too late. Hijiri I did not heed the warnings and prolonged our meeting now I will lose you. I had located you when you were a child but let you slip away. They had you well hidden here but I found you. You have to control your powers or they will find you just like I did. Please don't give in to those dark urgings you feel you must stay on my side or all will be lost."