We all raised our hands, eager to have a go. I was desperate to have a go, what Miss Firebird did there was so cool! Miss Firebird looked at us all and said,

"That's great. Who would like to have a go with the hamster?"

She passed the hamster cage to a boy in my class and then got out 20 cages, and handed them to our class. Some of the cages had trios of gerbils in them, others had hamsters,rabbits,guinea pigs and mice in them I stayed clear of the mice, due to my experience of them in my mouse 'dream' and instead, was handed a cage containing a guinea pig. I slipped on my yellow amulet and handled the guinea pig, stroking him as he made noises happily. That same I-know-him-very-well feeling came over me, like with that mouse. I grasped my amulet and closed my eyes. I felt a tingling sensation, like being tickled  on my back, then I opened my eyes. I was in some sort of cage, and was quite warm.

    "That's because fur keeps things warm" I thought, looking around.

I saw my real self outside of the cage, with a strange paw-print symbol on my hoodie. I was now the guinea pig! The guinea pig wasn't doing anything though. I was confused,

" Shouldn't it still be going around doing its daily business?" I thought.

" I am only travelling in its mind after all. " I moved around, it didn't feel strange at all. In fact it felt ... Natural. I walked around the cage and made some guinea pig noises. Fascinated, I got wilder, making my guinea pig do back flips in the air, when suddenly, Miss Firebird came to my cage, telling me,

" Change back! Quickly! "

I shut my eyes tightly and a feeling of relief came over me, like I was taking off a jacket on a boiling hot day, then I opened my eyes. I was human again and whats more, my whole class was crowded round me.

"Are you okay? What you made that guinea pig do was amazing! "

They all asked curiously.

I was seriously confused. Why had I needed to change back? Miss Firebird then told me,

"Melissa, your power is too strong for a yellow amulet to cope with. Your Creatarr power  overworked it, and if you had not changed back, you could've caused it to degenerate, meaning you could've died or gone into a coma. I would just like to thank you for listening to my instructions." She said. She then continued,

" For the now, I shall fetch you an amulet that will let you do more things with animals, and a rat to practise traveling in the mind of." she went to the table, picked up a cage with a rat in it, a red amulet and a dish of soap. She then told me,

" Take off your amulet and wash your hands before closing your eyes, or the same dangerous situation will repeat. Then put on the red amulet and you should be fine."

I washed my hands, put on a red amulet and travelled in the mind of the rat, only this time I wasn't able to make the rat do wild things. With a stronger amulet, I learned, it was more difficult to make the animal do what you want.

"Though still, I have a lot to learn here, so maybe i'll get too powerful for this amulet one day." I thought. 

My class spent the rest of the morning practising travelling in the minds of animals, occasionally being corrected by Miss Firebird.

After the lesson was over, I asked Miss Firebird,

"What lesson do we have next?"

Miss Firebird gave me a funny look but then remembering I was new, she told me,

"After a lesson like this, we do not have other lessons for at least 2 1/2 hours. This is because using your Creatarr powers uses up a lot of energy, equivalent to exercising for a long time. Instead we let you have a break and when you have recovered, you will then have 2 of your 'average' school subjects, like English, Maths, for example, before dinner. After dinner, you will need to refer to your timetable." Miss Firebird informed me.

"Okay, thanks." I said, walking away to my dormitory.

When I entered my dormitory, everyone was staring at me. They all looked worriedly at me.

" Are you alright? How did you do what you did with your guinea pig? Are you sure your a complete beginner?" the girls in my dormitory fired questions at me.

Sally  calmly walked over to me. The other girls went back to what  they were doing and I sat on my bed to talk to Sally.

" Sally, I don't understand why everyone's asking me how I made my guinea pig do what I want, I didn't do anything special, didn't  feel weird, it just felt natural." I told her. Sally looked thoughtful and then said to me,

" I guess your power is more intense than the other girls. That's why they wonder how you did what you made your guinea pig do."

Sally responded.

" As a Creatarr, to have stronger powers is always something to work towards. You are very lucky to have strong powers as a beginner, as it's not something that all Creatarrs have when they start..." Sally told me.

I said,

" How do you know this?" Though I felt dumb after saying that, thinking " Of course she knows that! This is only my first full day here and she's been here for years!"

But Sally told me,

" Because I am like you, I have to use a stronger amulet. Also I have been here longer, so I know more things."

"Wait." I interrupted,  I was confused.
"How do you know you need a stronger amulet? You didn't have a disaster like I did nor have you ever tried travelling in the mind of an animal!"

At this response, Sally turned away from me. She responded,

" I don't trust you, so I wont tell you "
I was more confused. She was my friend, why didn't she trust me? But I suppose I'd only known her for a few days. Even so, she didn't come across as a normally secretive person. I asked some of the others if she was normally like this and they said no. Funny that.

After the two lessons after dinner, there was an hour of free time before lights out. I walked into the girls dormitory and saw most of the girls in there talking. I'm ashamed to say I listened in on their conversation. But maybe it was just as well I did, as they were talking about me.

They were saying,
"That new girl, Melissa is amazing! I thought Sally was best friends with her, due to the way she kept going near her... But now she's so... Defensive about herself. This isn't normal of her is it?" the others nodded, asking her to go on.

" Girls, I'm suspicious. Sally is hiding something and I think it has something to do with Melissa. "