“Explain it to me.” came a voice into my mind, out from the dark all around.

“I can’t.” I explain, my voice echoing weakly of the metal walls

“You can! You just have to tell me what you know.” coaxed the voice as it surrounded me and seemed to fill my mind, trying to find out the secrets that were inside of me.

“I don’t know if I can tell you” I say slowly, then I suddenly make up my mind,“- but I can show you.”

I feel my body become awake in an instant, my mind and heart filled with excitement as I reach out and touch the glass barrier surrounding me. Slowly, so slowly, my eyes close on their own accord as chills spill over me and I slowly lean forward and feel my mind fill with light. All my doubts and fears disappear, every sense of the world outside fade away, and I feel a smile of pure pleasure and joy spread on my lips.

I feel my body changing, lengthening, growing strong and lean. My short raggedly hair growing long and silky smooth, my short hair of brown changing to that like a flowing river of gold. I feel my clothes change into a gown of white, flowing and free.

I feel a breeze suddenly come over me, making my long hair flutter up into a halo behind me and my clothes to be tugged to and fro to fly around me.

I slowly stand up feeling like in a trance and open my eyes. The world looks so different now, so alive and bright, I can see for miles, I can even see the people on the other side of the metal walls. And my hearing! I can hear further than I can see.

I suddenly feel two great tugs on the back of my shoulder blades and I look back to see two great white feathery wings growing there behind me.

I face the front and look at my reflection in the glass. I resemble a huge delicate white blur with wings. I slowly step closer to the glass so I can see myself clearer. Out of the white blur came bright eyes that seemed to have no colour, for they were pure white. Long wavy hair that fluttered around those eyes to form a golden halo, flying around wild and graceful in the breeze.

I look beyond my reflection to the people out side my glass prison all standing and staring in at me. They don’t seem to remember me, but I remember. I remember the first day I saw those faces, all staring at me like they are now. Their faces are just like how they were the day they kidnapped me from my home and locked me away here in this cold glass cage away from the sun and the fresh air where I belong.

“Then I’ll make you remember!” I say as I focus my sight on the people and walk forward through the glass to gently glide to the ground, the force of my flapping wings blowing everything around the room.

“Wh-what are you?” the voice echoes out of speakers I can now see on the walls. I turn around and look at a mirror on the wall, and I know it isn’t really a mirror, and I can see the room there inside where these men and women sit, and I answer them, “I thought it was you who was supposed to tell me. I remember you promised to help me, and protect me, that you would find out who I am, and what I am. But all you have done is locked me away behind metal and glass and used me as your lab rat!”

I burn with sudden rage I cannot control and yell, “I will not be used!”