The next day we came to the shore of a vast lake. It was a beautiful summer day, with the sky above clear and cloudless and the water below sparkling in the mid-afternoon sun. I had spent the day with confused anger once again boiling in me, so I wasn’t exactly in the mood to enjoy the sunshine. But when Raneld called a halt and shifted once more to human form, I did likewise.
“I think I’ll go for a swim. Running is sweaty work, after all. Care to join me?” He smiled and made a little beckoning gesture as he started to stride naked towards the water.
A sudden thought flashed through my mind. In the water he might be vulnerable. Perhaps this was my chance to kill him at last. Anger flared into eager, hate-fueled excitement in me. “Sure, in just a moment,” I said, managing to keep my tone
