CHAPTER ONE Becoming a Fledgling 101

The becoming of a Fledgling is an event occurring in ONLY ONE possible manner. To become a fledgling, one must be found by a tracker and announced as marked. On the happening of this event, certain changes occur in the body that compel one to immediately demand attendance at the nearest House of Night academy where they will learn and transist through the changes that will hopefully lead to a healthy Vampyric life.

"High Priestess! Oh thank the goddess we reached you! Something's… something's happened. A child, oh goddess, I don't know how to explain this. A child has… I know you don't usually do this, but it's something you have to see so could you please come down here?"

"I'll see what I can do"

"Thank you High Priestess Shekinah! Thank you!"

She arrived half past three pm, her robes and all still wrinkled from slumber. The house of night hospital was nearly empty, with most of it's typical clients being fast asleep at home, not that it had many clients to begin with. For the most part it was used as a research clinic to better understand the reason for a fledgling's sudden death. Shekinah had only been there once, for it's unveiling. Tonight, she came, partly out of her own curiosity, but mostly out of the desperate plea of a well known vampyre and old friend from her days in the House of Night Academy as a Fledgling herself. She took the elevator to a private room at the very top of the hospital, where she had been directed.

There, in this large and seemingly expensive room lay a women clearly asleep and not ten feet away, a bassinette shifting silently.

"what's the meaning of this, Arielle?" Shekinah said now glaring at her nerve racked friend.

" I didn't know what to do, I-"

"well that's simple, Wake her up!"

"no, not the women, high priestess, the baby."

With this Shekinah glided over to the rocking bassinette. She leaned over and was stopped midstream by the sight. There in the white bassinette lay a little girl dresses from held to toe in full black Vampyre marks.