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t glance at me once,
urred past in streak
still tingling where D
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saw him move with inhuman
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lun
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st my brain strug
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lf stood where
, and unmistakable-loc
with a force that
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e other wolf into the dirt,
hter, and in them was a war
one thing f
ckwood was
in around us lik
wing at the night sky. The car headlights cut weakly through the da
ug into the
s this... home?"
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wallowed
d his door.
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when I
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spered. "Why ar
trembled on th
let us," h
any wolf I had ever seen. Its fur was matted, its stanc
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ing
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on my chest as Damien'
not painfully,
m human limits. Fur spilled across his skin like ink i
man had
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brighter than the moo
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wls ripping through the forest like thunder
he glass, unable to scr
sion-fast, controlled, dominan
ng defending
finally overcoming rage. It vanished ba
e massive
ver eyes
sof
again, fur receding, bones reforming, until Damien sto
d back t
d my
aling with an ordinary
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