Alcina moved away from you to go to the door.
"Daniela!" she shouted down the hall.
A swarm of insects gathered just outside. Still thinking in kitten mode, you dart off the stool and run out on all fours to swat your hands in the air at the flying creatures. You snap one up in your mouth, only to have Alcina scold you lightly. You feel the fly buzzing around in your mouth, puffing out one cheek before the other. You eventually open your mouth to allow it freedom.
It isn't long before the swarm takes shape, the familiar form that you're so used to seeing. "That wasn't funny," the fully formed woman now frowned.
You put yourself into your usual sitting position, which seems really odd now that you're in human form and fully naked.
"Who is that?" she now asks curiously, looking down on you.
"Don't you recognise her?" Alcina asks.
"She's the kitten?"
Alcina nods. "She's a shapeshifter."
A smile crosses the daughter's face.
"Don't get any ideas," Alcina frowned. "Besides as you can see, she isn't exactly in the right state of mind."
Daniela nods. "What is it you need of me?" she now asks.
"Some clothes for starters," she looked down as you now scratched your ear with your foot, while almost toppling over in the process. "You're both about the same height."
"Fine with me," she shrugged as you start to wander off down the hallway.
"Kitten," you hear Alcina call you back, only your curiosity knows no bounds.
You're off searching around, nose high in the air even though your sense of smell isn't as good now.
"Please refrain from transforming until I have her settled," Alcina warned her.
"But mother," she whined.
"I mean it," Alcina frowned.
"No transforming. No doing this, no doing that." She mumbled to herself as she walked off back to her room to collect some clothes, while Alcina headed of to find you and bring you back.
"Rule 1, no more climbing." She scolded you at finding you on one of the statues.
She reached up to grab you, but you slipped from her grasp to go off back down the hall. Startling Cassandra, who laughed hysterically.
"Kitten!" Alcina frowned, having to now follow on.
"Need help, mother?" Bela asked, now joining them.
"No transforming in front of her though."
"Why?" they both questioned.
"She ate a little of your sister."
The two giggled at the thought of Daniela missing at least some small part of herself.
"That's enough, girls." She cut them short.
Daniela exited her room just as the three passed. The dress she was holding out was taken from her by her mother on the way past.
"Welcome," she frowned, following on after the others.
They spent just over an hour or so chasing you through the castle, until you finally give in to curl up on the sofa. Alcina now stands over you, holding out the dress. You blink up at her tiredly.
"I'm not pleased, kitten." She frowns at you.
You smile and call out her name.
"That will not work on me," she tried not to smile at you.
The three sisters all stood looking at you as well, a mixture of pleasure and annoyance.
"Arms," Alcina now tells you as you look at her confused.
"Your arms, Kitten." Cassandra walked behind you to hold up your arms, so that her mother could slip the dress over the top of you.
You find it rather strange to have something long and light flowing around your body. The next to unsettle you would be the underwear.
"She looks so cute," the three now gathered around you to pet and stroke your hair.
"Enough of that," their mother stopped them. "She has to learn to act human again."
You still couldn't help yourself but purr as the three continued to fuss you.
"Come, Kitten." Alcina beckoned you as the three moved away, even as you look between them in hopes of more attention that never comes.
You turn back to look at the head Lady and jump off the seat, running towards her on all fours only the dress now hinders you and sends you head over heels. The three laugh between themselves as Alcina bends down to pick you up in her arms.
"Another thing we need to address is, you have two legs that you now use to walk on."
She takes you back to her room, places you upon the bed then strips of her nightdress to pull on her white dress. She then sits herself down on the stool in front of her mirror to start on her hair. She looks at you through the mirror as you now lie on your back to stretch, but something feels different you don't feel as you should. You roll over onto your stomach to see Alcina smiling at you through the mirror.
Crawling to the edge you now wonder how you'll tackle it. You look down at your legs as you pull yourself up into a sitting position as Alcina had once guided you into earlier that day. You position them over the side and stand upon them. It seems a little strange without assistance and without being on all fours, but thankfully Alcina is watching your every step, her hand reaching out for you when you stumble slightly.
"Give it time and it will come natural, Kitten." She spoke to you softly as she guided you over to her.
Once by her side, you're now roughly equal in height. You look to the mirror and raise your hand to it, seeing the person on the opposite side do the same.
"It will all take some getting used to," she smiled warmly.
You now turned to her, your hands reaching out for her head. Fingers loosing themselves in the strands, you then feel the overwhelming urge to rub your head against hers. She chuckles lightly raising a hand to your head, making you stop to look into the mirror to see her looking back at you. Her fingers gently massage your head now and you close your eyes in response.
"Alcina," you purr against her.
She continues to massage her fingers through your hair until pulling away to tell you she has to get ready. Picking up the brush again, she combs and styles her hair the way you're used to seeing it. Once that's done she starts on her earrings. She then stands to grab her hat and place it neatly on her head.
"School has now started, Kitten. Let's get you learning again."
You feel the need to get down on all fours again, but a large gentle hand is placed upon your back. You look up at her and she shakes her head to tell you to straighten back up, her hand also running down your back making you purr once again while arching your back into her.
"A lady must act proper," she tells you while moving her hand away for you to almost fall backwards. "Come, Kitten. Walk for me."
You look at her and she then shows you what walking meant.
"Walking is one foot in front of the other," she says to you and you take in the words once again.
"Walking. Foot," you copy her.
She nods, watching you take your first steps as if you were a toddler.
"Good girl. Very good girl," she praises you, her hand now on your head again, fingers massaging you.
Damn you feel your knees going weak, then suddenly she's moving her hand away again, leaving you pining for her touch. You walk over to her and rub against her.
"No, Kitten." She scolds you.
You pull away, looking to her with a sad expression.
"Stand up straight," she tells you, though not too forcefully.
You straighten your back and smile at her as she smiles at your progress. However, your stomach now decided to complain and she sees it as your next teachings.
"You're hungry?" she asks you. "Food?"
She emphasis by bringing her hand to her mouth to show her eating some imaginary food. Thinking she has something you bring your hand to hers and look into her palm. She chuckles lightly then strokes your head again, but you don't see why it's so funny.
"Come with me to the dining room," she now says as she heads for the door.
You follow her on down the halls, your eyes taking in everything from before that you didn't really have time to see, what with you running around playing games.
"Darlings!" Alcina now calls out before making her way downstairs.
You place a hand on the banister and lower your first foot. The rustling of fabric spooks you and you end up loosing your footing to then go tumbling into the back of the large woman. Your face smacking into her lower back. She turns around to see you pulling away while also looking quite surprised, it was her daughters that had spooked you with their arrival.
"I have you," she smiles as she now wraps an arm around you as you finally come back to your senses.
"Did we scare you, sweet?" one of the daughters ask as she passes both you and her mother. She then turned around to smile as she takes the stairs backwards to then turn back around again and jump down the last of the remaining steps.
You look up at Alcina who shakes her head, knowing you may have some crazy idea's of your own.
"We're taking dinner early today," she states as the other two follow you both down.
"What's the occasion is the kitten hungry?" Bela giggles as she pets you on the head.
"Inform the staff to bring it early today," Alcina waved off one of her daughters.
"Fine, it's always me that has to do the dirty work." Daniela sighed, knowing it was as simple as walking into the kitchen to tell them.
She always liked to make a grand entrance that always had her throwing open both doors to startle or maybe even knock back whoever was coming through the door at the time.
"Mother requests dinner!" she demanded forcefully with a huge grin on her face at the startled expressions of the women. "Don't leave us waiting."
No sooner had she turned around the women had got to work on preparing dinner. First though they had to contact the man downstairs in which dealt with the meat. He was someone the women were fearful of, though he feared the ladies of the house as did everyone.
"Who's run is it today?" the women looked between each other.
"Ana-Maria."
"What!?" the woman shreiked loudly.
"It was Elena last time, that means it's back to you."
The woman shook in fear. "But...but..." she protested.
"Just go or else you'll upset the Lady."
Swallowing her fear, she took hold of the silver tray in shaky hands and headed down for the dungeons. Try as she might there was never anyway they could drown out the moans and cries of pain going on done here. Going further in was not for the faint of hearted. Sofia had once said about seeing someone as pale as a sheet with a cloak on, their body looking as though someone had covered a skeleton with flesh.
"Keep your nerve," the maid pushed herself as she finally made it to his quarters.
Taking a deep breath, in which she now regretted, she walked in.
"I've come for the ladies dinner," she tried to act as brave as she could, though anyone could hear the fear in her voice as clear as day.
The man behind the large wooden blood coated table looked up, the sack over his head didn't make him any less intimidating. After all he was over six foot and his build was just as bad as the Lady's.
"It's not time," he told her. "I have a set routine and no one disrups that."
Dread filled her now. It was either going back upstairs and getting killed by the Lady herself or get tortured down here just because she came at the wrong time.
"Well missy seen as you interrupted my time I..."
The tray clattered to the floor as she ran for her life. The man now shouting after her, his voice growing weaker the further she ran. She let out a sigh of relief at making it back into the castle. Her knees now gave way at the thought of having to tell the Mistress.