The Legend by Sheritta Bitikofer

Author:Sheritta Bitikofer [Bitikofer, Sheritta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946821164
Publisher: Moonstruck Writing
Published: 2017-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

John could already feel his insides seize and rebel against him. He had been careful to avoid the chopped vegetables in the stew and slurped the broth slowly, knowing that the essence of the things that made him sick was what made the soup so dangerously delicious. Even after eating the chunks of lamb, he was left feeling ill and nowhere near satisfied.

The deer he had killed the night before should have lasted much longer than this, but with the added excitement of meeting Annalette and learning of his true nature, his body no longer reacted the same.

The voices around him became dull and grating to his ears. Even Annalette’s soothing cadence couldn’t abate the queasiness that overtook him so violently. His vision blurred as he cast his eyes to the table. Fixating on something usually calmed his nerves enough to withstand this kind of sickness, but he could no longer focus on the flow of the wood grains or see the fine splinters that jutted out from the surface.

He had been sick like this before, and it never ended well. When he told Annalette that he would eat the stew, he thought he could make an attempt at controlling the beast inside of him. Though it would take him a while to consider the strange spirit as a wolf instead of a demon, he couldn’t fight against it just yet.

“John?” he heard through the haze. “Are you all right?”

He had the clarity to shake his head and pushed himself from his chair. His muscles ached and were given to fits of spasms. It was a wonder he could walk to the door at all. “No... I’ll be right back,” he assured before disappearing into the night.

John moved around to the side of the house and braced himself against the stone wall as the stew made its way back up his throat and spewed out of his mouth to puddle in the grass at his feet.

It was better than the last time he became ill from eating what he shouldn’t have. He had eaten a whole carrot in his quest for food just a week after he first changed and fell unconscious for an entire day as his stomach rejected the once health-giving food.

When the poison had been expelled from his system, John felt the gold wolf eyes come forward in a cold rush. His nails, once trimmed with a bit of dirt underneath, grew long and sharp like claws, and scratched against the gritty texture of the stone until tiny bits were broken off. His sharp teeth pricked at his lips as he gasped for air.

In the times that he had starved himself, he thought the demon came forward to force him to kill and devour raw flesh. He understood now that the wolf needed nourishment, just like Annalette told him. The lamb he had just consumed was not the only meaty bits amongst the bile. Some of the fawn he had feasted upon had been ejected from him as well.

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