Soft For The Predators
I saw it, and I did the only thing I could think of.
I lifted my hand.
It was not a wave. It was a bare, open palm, held high over my head in the grey light, and I held it there, and for a half-second the whole square was perfectly silent.
The roar came from the left.
I had seen Jayden half-shifted once before, on a terrace, with the claws pushing out of his fingertips. This was nothing like that. A shape came out of the shadows beside the shuttered café, enormous and dark and moving at a speed that did not belong to anything so big, with a shoulder like a battering ram and a mouth full of sound. The first man went down under it without a cry. The second turned, and a line of fire the color