Alpha Orion
The massive form contorted, bones snapping with grotesque cracks that reverberated through the still night.
Rey staggered one cautious step back, her stomach twisting, but she couldn't tear her eyes away. She watched in horrified awe as fur receded, limbs lengthened, and the monstrous snout shortened into the sharp lines of a man's face.
Orion.
When at last he rose to his feet, chest heaving from the shift, her breath hitched violently. Dark hair clung damp to his forehead from the snowfall, his body towering and sinuous, every muscle cut like stone. And then—