She had tried to dismiss it as coincidence, that she's just learning healthy assertiveness and to not be a doormat. But she couldn't deny it anymore. Her friends told her that she was cured but she knew better. Her recent confidence boost wasn't from practice. It was the instincts of the monster still inside her, inching their way out. She knew this was something that she needed to address before it got out of control. The part that scared her the most was that she was starting to like it.