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Seconds pass and nothing happens to me. No change or urgent need to kill the living. But I don’t have time for this. Not now.
I'm running after Jae, attacking the next three zombies, biting deep into their sides and legs to cause damage, to toss them aside. Anything to slow them down. They don’t even react, it’s as if I’m invisible to them.
I lose sight of Jae, and I look left and right, I sniff the air to catch her faint scent—powdery and earthy.
In seconds, I am on her heels again. She screams at my approach, until she looks back to see it's only me. “I really hope that is Meira inside there,” she says nervously.
Glancing behind me, she realizes we've left the creatures way behind us.
She pauses, resting against a tree, breathing fast.
I inhale raspy breaths, then my tongue dangles out, and more than anything, I need to transform back. Looking up at Jae, she stares at me, tilting her head.
Making a whiny sound, I sit in front of her, unsure how to communicate that I'm stuck.
"Why aren't you changing?" she asks, worry coating her words. "I don't really know this area too well, but there are caves farther up the hill behind me I passed days ago. We can go hide there?" She's breathing heavy and talking quickly.
I nudge my head against her thigh, then start moving toward the mountain so she knows I agree with her plan. Another glance behind us and no sign of the undead following. My attention sweeps over in the direction of the compound, where I want to be heading, not away from it.
But first, I need to get Jae out of harm's way.
She steps up alongside me and we're marching through the shadowy woods. She’s talking, but I’m not listening at first. Instead, I scan the woods, smell scents, listen for sounds. Then I look up at Jae.
"Meira, please don't tell me you don't know how to change back from wolf form. I once heard of a wolf who got trapped and stayed in her animal form her whole life."
My heart jackhammers at her words. Is she serious? I don't hear another word she says when panic replaces everything else I feel with a dreadful sinking feeling.
I can’t be stuck in my wolf form. Please, no!
