The Stray Moon
The wound stings, but I’ve had worse.
“Shift her,” I order, voice low. “Now.”
Tessa nods. She kneels, grips the wolf by the muzzle, and whispers the old words, the incantation that forces the transformation back. The words are nonsense, really—just a script passed down through the generations—but the voice, the intent, is what matters. The wolf stiffens, whimpers, then begins to convulse, body shuddering in ways no human body should.
Bones crack. Limbs shorten. The fur thins and falls away in clumps, drifting on the wind like ash. The scream that rises up is neither human nor animal, but it’s agony either way.
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