The child thought they were human, until they began to enter their teen years and certain things began to manifest that showed they were not. Small scales, occasional flame, they were frightened. Then a kind hand reached out to them and stated "No you're not a freak, or a monster, but child, you are changing. It's time you learned your heritage." -- Anon Guest
Everyone knows that things can happen to a body growing into maturity. For Humans, the usual speech is hair in strange places, or discrete hygiene rituals. For Hellkin, it's all of that and warnings of emergent abilities and how to control them. Elves have to have an education about physical maturity versus social maturity.
Nobody warned Kaelar about the little quirk in hir family line.
So when ze discovered scales instead of pimples on hir face, ze kind of panicked a little. Ze didn't scream, at first thinking one of hir siblings was playing a joke with small flakes of gemstones. By the time ze realised that they were part of hir, Kaelar had gathered enough wits to refrain from screaming. Ze watched in slow horror as another one gradually eased its way to the surface of hir brow.
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