Even as both men swung around to stare at where the sound of the voice, they both stopped, starting in disbelief.
It was Aadev who first recovered his voice. “Samaria?”
“Did you really think I would tell you the date and time of my own death, little boy?” Paying him no further heed, she turned her attention instead to Rudi. “Now Rudolphus, let’s see him?”
“Him? What?”
She means me moron.
And in his mind’s eye, Rudi suddenly saw a form expanding, forming, and it was beautiful, and he so wanted to be that creature, a creature his father, uncle and younger brother could turn into at will. Then that wish took shape even as his body started changing too.
Easy, easy now.
Samaria’s voice was in his mind, guiding him even as panic wanted to set in as the pain set in together with a feelin
