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“Broderick, I… I…”

I was dizzy Disorientated Confused

“I didn’t see where—”

The wolf I kneas Broderick padded over to e snout went intome

“Where Damien…”

As the rush of adrenaline left my body, so did my consciousness slip away It would be bad this time, much worse than normal My mind would be mostly drained, at least for a little while

Broderick kept pushing against e me in some direction Still alarmed, I looked around for Damien Both he and the black ere nowhere to be seen

“We have to—”

My tongue stopped working as Broderick’s wolf body stiffened next toover into his head as the consciousness left them

Oh my God!

For a second I thought heinto convulsions, and I needed to help hi — that this was a man, and not a wolf — and I could only cover my mouth with both hands as I stepped back to watch

The wolf’s paws split apart, as arrotesque, really Like watching so its skin, or a crab its shell — just watching so else, and that soness before my eyes

It ended with him on his hands and knees Broderick crouched there cooosebumps from the cold or maybe from the transformation He didn’t stand for a full ten seconds, and when he did he s for the very first time

“Broderick! I… I…”

The vertigo hit ht… it orse than norone too far, actually Almost but not quite