06-22-2009, 01:32 PM
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Family, she said. Then, as he listened, she began to explain herself. His paws gripped the ground, intent on finding something to hold onto. He worried that if he did not, his body would move on its own and send him against her. She had done the only thing he had asked her not to do; wander alone near the wolf packs. Talitha had been captured that way. She had been tortured and returned an entirely different girl. They were monsters.
But what Siobhan explained was not that this boy was her friend, but that he was more then a friend. He liked her the way that a boy would like a girl. Suddenly, his eyes were on fire. His voice went terribly low, and his body turned still. “Did he do anything to you?” [/html]