Watching Edgar runoff made me sad again but with my heat wave peeking it was for the best. Even such a young one should not have his wolf confused by my smell and he wasn't part of the mating ritual. A fog of sadness kept trying to roll in. I would be stuck for 10 months in the body of a human. I couldn't shift, I couldn't run wild. Even with all the attributes of my cat in my human form, I was still fragile. I would have to cook all my meals, I could get cold without clothing. I'd never gone a day in human form and now I was supposed to go almost a year. I'd lost so much. Chana and Adams could tell I was slipping away again and tried their best to cheer me up. I tried not to slip behind the fog but it was so hard. The thing I dreaded most had happened. "My Queen, I can smell you strong

