"My, my w-what?"

"Your grandfather on your mother's side, how is my daughter anyway? I heard there was a scuffle up north, with ghosts?" He climbed down and started organizing different things

"Oh, she's doing great" I watched him move about, still trying to wrap my mind around the fact we were related.

"Good, now why are you here?"

"Oh, well-"

"No wait! Let me try to guess, um, you have a prophecy that needs unraveling?" He guessed

"No" I answered

"You seek guidance?"

"Something like that" I admitted

"Something like that?" He questions as he twittered about like a nervous owl

"I've been having the sudden bout of anger, then my vision goes black, when I can see again, the claws nearest to me are injured, their blood on my claws"

He froze "come with me" and pushed me forward, down a tunnel I didn't see before.

His voice had fallen into a deep serious tone. Soil turned to stone as we entered a tunnel carved from rock. There was a pool a water, there was a tinny hole in the cave roof that let in a shaft of sun light. The rest was lit by the glowing fungus.

"Stand in the water" he said

I padded into the shallow pool, the water was soothing on my aching pads, my endless walking took it's toll. I watched Nightwatcher as he sat completely still. Then suddenly threw gray dust in my face, I coughed and started too feel dizzy as I breathed in the mysterious herb. Before I knew blackness enveloped my vision and I blacked out.

When I gained awareness, I wasn't in any of my grandfathers ever-changing dens. Instead it appeared I was on a white, marble, cliff.

The wind blew harshly and I spread my wings out to gain balance. My grandfather appeared behind me.

"Where are we?" I asked

"We are everywhere, and nowhere, but that is imperative, this is a place of magyk, now hold still"

He shut his eyes, and I felt a slight tug at my chest. That changed when pain flashed through my head. I yelped and clutched my fore head. Then watched fascinated as a glowing blue symbol appeared in front of him. It looked like this: 🔯. It moved forward and disappeared into my chest, then came out, but circling around it was a misty black substance. A clear watery substance surrounded the symbol, then Nightwatcher grabbed it, the clear stuff hardened like glass. Then he threw something on the ground, the next thing I knew the air was filled with black smoke. When it cleared I was standing back in the puddle of water.
My grandfather was holding the glass ball with great interest.

"What was that?" I asked, feeling a bit woozy

"This is a transportation pool, the white cliff is a place of strong Magyk, I could have done it here but it would have drained me to much, I probably would have died, the Magyk aura there flowed with my own, I removed a tiny bit of what's inside you, I need to examine it" he explained

"There was something inside me?" I gasped

"There is something inside you, this is only a sample" he said

"What was the smoky stuff?" I asked

"That was just ash, it's very nauseating seeing the world warp around you, I didn't need you throwing up all over the white cliffs" he explained

That explained my dizzy feeling now. I jumped as Nightwatcher suddenly gasped and dropped the ball, it shattered and the black mist zoomed right back into me. My grandfather was breathing hard and staring at me with a new curiosity.

"Zach, I'm afraid you've been possessed"