“I slowly move toward the animal, close enough to see the breath laboring in and out of it, and smell it’s husky scent. Far more potent that me in my mud-caked pants.”

Change ‘….more potent that me…” ‘that’ to ‘than’

“I look at her like she must be joking. Like she has to be pulling one over on me. But then I look into her eyes and see a flash of something. Something dark. It’s like she showing me a side of her that is so primal, so animal like, so that I will have no choice but to take her at her word.”

Change ‘…It’s like she showing…” ’she’ to ’she’s’

“She turns toward me to look me over. “I would say you’re not likely from the cat family. You can sniff our your own kind even before the magic is learned. You don’t smell like a cat.””

Change “…You can sniff our your own…” either make ‘our’ to ‘out’ – or delete ‘our’ all together.
““Child, you’re not to pay a wit of attention to those theories of hers. Makes me wish she was losing her mind right about now. It’s all we need, her teaching you that nonsense.”
“So you don’t agree with her? You don’t think we are good or bad, or that I’ll have to choose between Jake and Michel, to see who gets to be king and continue on as the head of the family line?””

Blank line before “So you don’t agree…”

Change ‘Michel’ to “Michael”

““Tell her,” Bea says, because obviously she can’t stop laughing long enough to do it herself.”

Change ‘her’ to ‘him’

““I know exactly what she means,” Bea insists, “and Anna is going off the deep end to try to teach a novice, an outsider novice, anything about good and bad. It’s master-level material and there’s now way Mayden here is going to take it right.””

Change ‘now’ to ‘no’

““Why is he saying with you,” she asks, talking around the pipe in her clamped jaw, “and not Helene?””

Change ’saying’ to ’staying’

a few technicalities:
“And second, because I still don’t know what to do with Michael and dinner at the house is an hour away.”
There should be a comma between “Michael” and “and.”

“You can sniff our your own kind even before the magic is learned.”
“our” should be “out”

A few other typos: When Bea has just told Mayden that she’ll learn to shapeshift, “…you can sniff our your own kind..” should be either ‘our’ or ‘your’, not both. Then after Mayden tells Bea about the good/bad thing, “…or that I’ll have to choose between Jake and Michel..” should be Michael. Then after Jake gets back, “…it’s master level material and there’s now way…” should be ‘no way’.

Can’t wait for the next chapter!

The little black snake with big dreams – lol.
Laws being implied – “Alright then, find out when she’ll be traveling in the air. It’s the safest time…”

Love Bea’s irreverence combined with reverence for what is important – drawing in quiet and asking.

Well done Lady.