Night Flower
The Switch, when holding correctly, suppressed the wolf register cleanly, the specific cellular signature of an elevated species, the scent compound that any trained nose in this compound would recognize as kin or threat depending on context.
What had leaked through in that brief window was the baseline projection Silver Dawn field investigators ran as their ambient state. Not wolf. Not human exactly, but the human-register signal, the carefully calibrated cellular output that read to any standard assessment as warm-blooded and unremarkable. A woman. Nothing elevated. Nothing that warranted a deeper look.
To Reineck, running his questions with his flat cataloguing eyes, I was exactly what Ly
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