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"Do you know any olves who have chosen to do that?" Pride asked

Nolan nodded "Mybut huive off the energy It’s said that if you go too many years you can lose the ability to slip from human to animal, but I don’t think my ma would care She helped teach me how to control my wolf and how to shift forain I’d come home for visits and ask her to coain It was like her being a wolf like me was a dream"

"Did you have other family that went into the woods with you?" Jake asked

"Cousins, but there are fewer and fewer of us every generation Unless we start ain, there may come a day when there are no MacIntires or MacTires worthy of the name"

"I seem to remember a second cousin of yours that you told me to stay away from," Edward said

Nolan smiled "She’s married now and has three kids"

"Are any of them olves?" Jake asked

"No"

"Would she tell you if they were, or would she just have the tail removed in the hospital and hide it from everyone?" Edward asked

"Sonore your shadow froht control, the inner beast will come out in other ways The last of my cousins that were treated that way ended up in prison He nearly beat soht Part of e learn to control as children is the ahting for what is his, or when threatened"

"Wolves in nature seldoht to the death," Jake said

"And they aren’t put into situations like school, or bars where they can drink until they lose all sense of themselves," Nolan said

"Very true," Jake said

"Wolves are not dogs," Nolan said, "and they do not behave like dogs when you put a collar and leash on theain"

Nolan looked at Edward "I didn’t think it would bother you this o ouldn’t have been friends"

"Honestly, I don’t knoasn’t as comfortable with shapeshifters back then, but you’ll always be Wee Brian to me" He said the last with a perfect Irish accent, as far as I could tell

Nolan sighed and shook his head