Louie didn’t know what time it was when he woke up in the middle of the night. He remembered that Dane had dropped him off at the apartment, then reminded him not to wait up and just sleep on the bed. As instructed, Louie had locked the front door, opened the kitchen window, and went to bed—his back immediately thanking him for it as Gadreel's potion wore out. It must have been hours that he was asleep, since he even had a dream. He couldn’t remember what it was about, but he knew it was a good one. There was something about a dog—probably his first dog back at his old home. He was caressing it in his dream, but when he slowly woke, he couldn’t help but feel that it was all too realistic. It took Louie a while to realize that there was an actual creature beside him whose fur he was actual

