When I look in the mirror I see a beautiful dark haired girl. She has brown eyes and long brown hair.

I know this isn't right, because I look like my parents and the others in my clan.

We are horned with glowing eyes and the look of fierce warriors.

Yet, deep inside, I long to be that girl in the reflection.

Beautiful, normal, sweet and innocent.

I turn away from the mirror - that false self. That is not who I am, but who I long to be.

I ready myself for the dinner party downstairs. I will attend and I will fit in, but it is not who I truly am.

Perhaps someday I can find the courage to be myself, but today is not that day.

I turn away from the mirror and leave the room. Descend the stairs.

I meet the others, and I blend in with them. For now. For now.