JV was going crazy. She"d spent the last week going between the main house and Steve"s cabin, seeing only Steve, Bobby, and clan leaders. She hadn"t been able to walk outside more than that, because she didn"t have anything warm enough to be outside in for very long. She"d never, in all her twenty-eight years, experienced anything like it. She felt trapped and found herself pacing through the house, then bundling up in what little warm clothing she had, to go outside and pace back and forth on the porch, returning only when her face and hands started to ache from the cold.
She"d tried to shift and run through the snow, but she"d soon discovered that even as a cat, moving around in foot-deep snow wasn"t an easy prospect. When the ice had caked on her paws she"d given up, going in and takin
