An Owl's Rise

Seeing the needle and syringe, Evelyn recoiled and jumped back in a panic.

She had been subjected to all manner of experiments back when she was held hostage by humans, and numerous times they stuck her with syringes and either took her blood or injected her with weird substances.

It was a very traumatic for her, and just seeing one of the items that had tormented her for weeks, was enough to send her into a panic attack.

Turning around she moved to fly away, wanting nothing more than to escape from something that brought about a great sense of fear in her.

Yet before she could even get off the ground, Melisandre put a hand on her shoulder which only made her feel even more afraid as she felt herself being restrained.

"Stop panicking. No one is going to hurt you; you just need give a bit of your blood in order to test your bloodline and what magical affinities you have. Just calm down and push past what has happened to you."

Hearing Melisandre's commanding yet caring voice, Evelyn began to do as she said and calm down.

She took a few deep breaths and felt the fear and panic begin to diminish.

Naturally she still did not want anything to do with needle and syringe and looked towards Melisandre while chirping and hooting to convey what she meant.

But even though Melisandre got sort of the gist of what Evelyn wanted, she was not quite sure so she created a thin thread of magical energy towards Evelyn so that they could properly communicate.

Once the connection was established, Evelyn said, "Please do not make me use that syringe, I just can't. If all you need is my blood, there must be another way?"

Seeing the terror on Evelyn's face, Melisandre relented and told her that they could get her blood another way, but that I was likely to hurt more than the syringe.

Still Evelyn agreed, saying that she was willing to cut herself with her own talons rather than deal with having a syringe jammed into her.

After their discussion was over, the two of them moved back over to Dara who was looking at Evelyn with a worried and confusion expression.

"Is something the matter with her?" Dara asked Melisandre.

"Yes, she was at one time held captive by humans, and I am sure you can imagine what they might have done to her. She is a bit afraid of the needle and syringe, so she will be providing her blood in another way."

Hearing that Evelyn had been tortured by humans in the past, Dara looked down at her with pitying eyes, and said, "However you wish to give me you blood is fine. I do not need much for this magic tool to read the particulars of your bloodline."

Dara then placed a magical device that was a box made out of a dark blue metal Evelyn had never seen before.

"Now I just need you to place your blood here." Dara said as she sent some of her magical energy into the device and a slide came out of the side of it.

Doing as she was told, Evelyn cut the top of her left foot by slicing herself with her talons.

She winced in pain as she made the deep cut, but she gritted her beak and endured the pain, believing it to be far better than to have to be stuck with another needle

Quickly and carefully, she dropped a couple of drops of her blood off the top of her foot and onto the slide.

Once the blood was applied, the slide automatically went back into the box, and Evelyn could hear it making some type of whirling sound as she assumed it was processing her blood.

Just a minute latter she saw that some lights were flashing on the side that was facing Dara that she could not see.

However, as the results of Evelyn's test came back, Dara frowned since it was not what she was expecting at all.

"I know this may be inconvenient, but I would like to test your blood again." Dara said as she looked at Evelyn quizzically.

Taken aback, she wondered why Dara was requesting more blood from her, and so was Melisandre.

Still Melisandre nudged Evelyn, and said, "Go ahead and do it. I am sure Dara will explain afterwards."

Sighing, Evelyn did as asked of her, and reopened the fresh wound on her foot, before pushing out a few more drops of blood for this magical tool to read her bloodline again.

Soon it had gone thought the exact same process as before, and from the flashing lights on the other side it was quite clear that the results came up the same.

"My this is certainly very unusual. I cannot remember the last time this happened with a fiend beast." Dara said to herself.

She seemed genuinely surprised by what she was seeing.

"Dara, would you mind telling us what is going one?" Melisandre said while snapping her finger to get the master of the record hall's attention.

Shaking her head and looking towards Melisandre as if she had just remembered that they were here, she said, "Oh yes, I suppose I should. We have quite the rare case here. This young owl who is to be your disciple is actually a completely new species we have no records of."

Hearing this Melisandre looked at Evelyn with a shocked expression, since it was thought that every species of owls at the fiend beast rank had been discovered.

"That is not all either. It appears that she has three affinities. One that is wind, another fire, and a last one that is currently unknown. I am assuming that this unknown affinity is what has led her to being considered a new species." Dara added.

"Hm now hat you mention it, while I was watching her during her trials certain things did seem to not make sense. Melisandre said as she turned towards Evelyn. "I had thought it was just your control over the wind, but might it have been this unknown magic Dara says you possess?"