8Jen and I followed the fast-moving crowd outside. Stopping on the porch, we watched while dozens of men, illuminated by the floodlight, shifted into bears the moment their feet hit the grassy yard in front of the bar. Like I’d heard about shifters and shifting, it just took a split-second, and their clothes just disappeared along with their human bodies. I’d heard that when they shifted back into human form, their clothes would shift right back with them.
I immediately realized that hearing about shifters and actually seeing them were two entirely different things. Not too far in front of me, maybe thirty or so massive black bears, their inky fur glinting in the floodlight, took up so much space that they nearly spanned the width of the bar. Calmly and quietly, women were hopping right o
