Caught

Jasmine

"You did great today, Jasmine. You don’t have to look so down. It's progress." My instructor said when she saw the disappointed look on my face and even though I nodded in response, walking to the tree to grab my bottle of water and towel to wash my face, I could not help but feel a very large sense of sadness because I knew that I had been so close to shifting.

I had felt it in my bones and in that split second, I had transformed, and even though it was not even completely, I had seen the claws. I had felt my sight sharpen, I had felt everything around me change, my sensations heightening and then before I could blink, it was gone. Like it never even happened.

"You did good, Jasmine." My instructor said again and she smiled as she came to sit beside me where I was currently seated, at the foot of the tree.

"How do you get over something like this? How do you continue to not give up hope? I was so close and now it felt like I had only imagined everything." I said, my lips