Bound in Black Magic
With a feral roar, he shifted mid-stride, his body snapping and morphing into a massive wolf as he intercepted the attackers, going to battle head-on.
"Keep running!" Christopher snarled telepathically through the pack link.
I grabbed a sobbing Maria by one hand and a terrified Eleanore by the other, darting around the scuffle and sprinting down a narrow, shadowy auxiliary corridor. But as we bolted through the dimness, a massive shadow suddenly detached itself from the dark alcove ahead.
Out of pure, blind maternal instinct, I shoved Maria violently out of arms' reach just as a hulking wolf lunged from the dark.