Liza's Revenge

Silver:

We all paused in the room as the man's painful cry tore through our ears. It was a very unbearable sound, like the whimper of a dying animal. The noise stopped for a few moments but the chill it left remained. Godon seemed to be awakened from his trance when the noise stopped. He turned back to us with a scowl on his face.

“Get on with it, will you?”

“But the noise. We have to be sure the man is okay. It's part of the rules,” I lied, shifting away from the rabid Drex who was not acting the least bit perturbed by the noise.

“Drex, now!” he barked as if he couldn't wait any longer.

At once, Drex turned fully into the biggest and most repulsive werewolf I had ever seen. The repugnant sight of his salivating mouth, his dirty-looking paws, and the speed and precision he used to jump on me made me temporarily freeze that I couldn't react and pull the knife from the back of my skirt where I dropped it.

The door opened from the outside and I fell backward, right before the snarli