Chapter 451

I was still thinking. Thinking about how everything hurt, but thinking. I hadn’t lost the ability to reason. It took about five more minutes, but eventually, the pain stopped. I looked down and saw paws, furry paws, with claws. I looked up and saw the full moon overhead and bayed at it. I heard other voices joining me, howling. I looked for Brigitte, and found her wolf, sitting beside me, staring at me. She whined, and moved away, looking back at me, and I understood she wanted me to come with her. I started to follow, and it was a movement both familiar and strange. It’s like my legs didn’t know how to move, but moved anyway.

Brigitte sped up, and I followed, and soon we were racing through the moonlight, at a dead run. We ran for what seemed like miles, maybe an hour. It felt glorious, and then I suddenly realized some things. I couldn’t shift if I was pregnant. That was impossible, so my puppy was dead. If I was a werewolf, I couldn’t have another puppy for the pack, unless