A Surge of Green

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’m suddenly running towards the disorienting cascade shivering through the bond. A heady mix of fear, confusion, and overwhelming

something. Pain. Physical, yes, to herself, but not only herself. Someone with her. Something that smells good. People around the cafeteria are crowding the

their arms, the blue-ish-green fluttering uncomprehendingly. I shove through th

r me over the ruckus here. What I forget to acco

r side of the crowd, his eyes wild and wide, storming over with

pear on the scene. Hale makes a B-Line for Red, getting to her side before I or Yuri can. His face g

clings to her bleeding human friend. Darine’s blood is pulsing out of the small human slower and slower by the second. A river bur

and deadly weapons. She doesn’t seem to even be aware of the damage she’s done - and doing - as she grips Darine’s body

pulses under my skin, ready to burst out and protect our mate as the energy in the room shifts. Ritska’s having trouble holding

t directions. Their pulsing emotions biting at my sharpened senses and agitating my wolf to the point of no return. I can h

a calm to flood my system and quiet the riot - then allow the hum of power in me to carry the calm and bathe the room in it. M

ficantly calmer- except for the barreling man on the other side of the crowd. Yuri’s expression is sti

to intersect him before he can

would worry me…if we weren’t Wolven. I feel the hum of power still crackling under the surface of my skin as he takes a step closer - then just as qu

here Ritska is still trying to block the humans from Hale, Red, and Darine. Then his eyes lock with mine, the flood of his worry and anger and fear congealing in a dark mass within me, mingling wit

now, not meeting mine in defiance, but in submission. He’s more o

r mix of expressions, eyes back to skimming from me to where Darine is. I can still hear Hale and Red talking, but their voices are

his shit’s gotten out of control. The people in the cafeteria have calmed down, but

ave to wipe them.” He says what I’m thinking aloud, giving my stomach a jarring t

ne, her acid-green eyes back to glowing. Though the human’s neck is now healed and some color has returned to her skin, Hale’s s

need blood.” I tell Yuri over my shoulder a

and gentle. I have the urge to stuff my ears with cotton to m

a foot from Red and Darine, and in the direct line of sight of Red. Her eyes jump to mine the second we’re

ing warmth I assosiate with her Wolven half flaring back to the surface. Sh