Pain.
Everything is pain.
My bones are breaking. Reforming. Breaking again. Skin stretching. Tearing. Fur trying to emerge but getting stuck halfway.
I scream. Finally scream. Can't hold it back anymore.
The wolf inside me is thrashing. Trying to take control. Trying to fully shift. But something is blocking her. Keeping her trapped between human and animal. Between conscious and feral.
"What's happening?" Chief Winters's voice. Panicked. "You said this was safe!"
"It should be! I've done this ritual dozens of times!" The witch backs away from the circle. "But her wolf... it's too strong. Too powerful. The binding didn't just suppress it. It twisted it. Changed it. And now it's emerging wrong."
My hands claw at the floor. Nails lengthening into claws. Shredding the concrete. My visi
