Lycan Moon_An Urban Fairy Tale by Rick Gualtieri & Ruby Cruz

Author:Rick Gualtieri & Ruby Cruz [Gualtieri, Rick & Cruz, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: werewolf, Werewolves
Published: 2017-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

21

Dean’s mind awoke long before his body began the painful regression back to his human form.

Or at least partially awoke. It was strange, existing in a sort of halfway state between himself and the wolf. A part of him wanted to rage, to rend, to tear, but that part was no longer dominant. He recognized the girl. She was sitting in front of him. Though the wolf part of him had no name to give her, he knew her nevertheless. Something about her had, once again, drawn him back from the brink, back from a dark place where the only color he could see was the red of spilled blood.

He saw red now, too, but it was her fiery hair, done up in a ponytail but no less brilliant to his eyes. The last time he’d seen her like this she’d been primed for battle, but now she simply sat and looked at him, a mix of wonder and sympathy in her eyes.

More of the human awoke and he was able to put a name to her face – Rowan Sinclair, Ro to her friends. Was she a friend? He found himself hoping she was.

He glanced down and noticed her hand upon his, looking so small compared to the wicked claws upon which it sat, but somehow powerful all the same.

He opened his mouth and yawned. The wolf was tired. Its time was spent. The moon would be waning now and with it the cycle of the beast.

With this realization came the first hints of pain. Dean, almost fully conscious now, understood what this meant and felt fear. He’d never been awake during the change back. Growing into this thing was traumatic enough, feeling his skin ripple, his bones and muscles expand, and his body morphology completely rearrange itself. How bad would it be to experience in reverse? All he knew was that in months past he’d awoken, sore and restless, but spared the agony of the transformation.

The change came more quickly now, and he saw the hair receding from his paw ... hand and arm, leaving for a moment a grotesque mockery of an appendage. He gritted his teeth as the spasms began to rack his body.

But then he looked down and realized her hand was still atop his, refusing to let go, and somehow that made the rest of the torment he endured a little more bearable.

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While Ro had seen wolves change back to their human forms before, this time was different. For starters, he wasn’t anywhere near dead. Nor did she have any intention of killing him. That alone was new and strange.

His eyes changed first, shifting from feral red to clear blue, then he began to shrink before her eyes, his massive body transforming, fur and claws receding until he lay naked on the floor in his human skin.

With the setting of the full moon, her pull to Dean and the hunt waned much more abruptly than its approach. It was like that every month, with the strongest of her hunter instincts turning off much like a switch.

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