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The pain that ripped through Em was unlike anything she had ever experienced before. Her blood was on fire with it, and she would do just about anything to make it stop. And then she felt light sink into her veins and chase the fire away.
The reprieve didn't last long. Her bones crunched and reformed, and her mind whited out, unable to handle whatever was happening to her.
She drifted. It could have been a minute or a month, but eventually she felt a familiar presence at her side.
Andre. His fingers stroked through her fur, and she heard him murmuring words of encouragement, though she couldn't quite make out what he was trying to say.
Wait. Her fur?
Em tried to stand, but when she tried to push herself up onto her legs, she discovered that she had four instead of two and fell bac
