’ Tristan spoke softly, not wanting to spook the girl but wanting to ensure that she obeyed his commands without question. Giselle looked up at him,...arching a brow in question. She glanced around, worridly, looking for her uncle. ‘Giselle, I will not ask again. Come with me now or I shall have to punish you here in front of your new friends.’ The girl quickly stood, her face surprised and anxious. She turned then to her friend and gave a small wave before placing her hand on the proffered. The night of the blood moon, she was with me in the woods as I changed and stared in wonder at my new form. When the moon was gone, she tried to adjust the cure in different ways, hoping to reproduce the miracle she had had with my mother. After four years and multiple attempts, we had gotten no closer.My elder mother then got very sick, and it was my turn to take what she had taught me to help cure her. I was able to help her stay around a few more years, but I had only held the sickness at. Their gang boss had just been acquitted (again) on a serious assault and battery charge, from beating a rival gang member into a permanent coma, and they were kicking up their heels and getting back down to business. For the most part they left me alone whenever I entered the property. I showed no interest in them and they apparently had been told that I had a right to be there on the ranch, and they mostly left me alone to do my job. I’ve never spent much time in the city and know nothing. "You will not return to school on Monday," she stated. I nodded... obviously I was done teaching here. "The family does not want to press charges and the school is anxious to avoid any further embarrassment more publicity could bring." I... I would never touch a student," I gasped, imagining a future in which I was raped daily in a prison shower. I knew I was no longer fighting for my job-that had been gone as soon as I walked in the office-but I wanted somehow to defend my character. She.