He towered over me, close enough now that his breath, hot and heavy, stirred the loose strands of hair around my face. Every instinct screaming through my body told me to run, to do exactly what Andy and Matthias had begged me to do only moments before. I didn't move. "Ethan," I whispered, my voice barely audible over the chaos still rippling through the courtyard behind me. "It's me. It's Selene." The massive head tilted, golden eyes narrowing, studying me with something that might have been curiosity, might have been the last flicker of recognition buried somewhere beneath instinct and rage. A low growl rumbled from deep in his chest, but he didn't lunge, didn't strike, just stood there, powerful and trembling, caught in some invisible tug of war I couldn't see but could feel radiating off him in waves. "Selene, get away from it," Andy hissed from somewhere behind me, his voice tight with barely controlled panic. "That's not him anymore
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