The Hunt by Sarah Elkins

Author:Sarah Elkins [Elkins, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NineStar Press, LGBT, psychic ability, shifters, captivity, law enforcement/FBI, fantasy, medical personnel, shifters, paranormal
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Tom sat in the room’s chair not far from the bed as close to the air conditioner as he could get. “Okay, let’s do this. Do not let me pass out. Don’t scream. Close your eyes if you have to.” He tried to think of the best way to phrase it but settled on saying, “I’ll probably be kinda gross to look at.”

“Right.” She slipped the socks she had tied together around his head and into his mouth. “I’ll try to make sure she doesn’t wake up.”

Tom gave a thumbs-up while nodding.

The clock read 5:30 a.m. Wake-up time would be at 7:00 a.m. or so. He wasn’t sure how long a full shift would take, but he was sure they didn’t have much room for error. He clenched his fist, then let it relax and took a deep breath through his nose.

Focus.

He had to focus.

Henry had said focus was as key to a shapeshifter’s success as it was to any other psychic ability. A telekinetic had to focus on what they wanted to move and where. A shapeshifter had to focus on what they wanted to change and how they wanted to change.

Had to focus on the small woman in the closet. On all the information he had gathered from touching her skin. Caucasian. Pale. Her hair was light brown. He had not seen her eyes, but he knew they were a gray-green, with brown speckles on the upper portions of the iris. He worked to imagine all of it in place of how he imagined himself. His eyes burned and began to water; he clenched them shut.

Eyes were easy. He had shifted his eyes before and thought he had a lash or speck of dust in his eye. His driver’s license had the wrong eye color listed for that very reason. Eyes had few nerves. The lids and skin had more pain receptors. Skin was also easy. He had altered his flesh before by accident before too. Thought he had a rash, then suddenly looked like he had vitiligo when before he hadn’t had much by the way of melanin in the first place. He wouldn’t have the same problem this time. The woman’s skin was comparable in color to his own.

Tom couldn’t let himself get sidetracked. He had to focus. If he failed, there would be no escaping the Facility. The whole plan depended on him.

He had to keep going.

Tom took another breath in through his nose, then back out.

He focused on all of the woman. Envisioned her. Every wrinkle, every hair, the cluster of freckles along her left shoulder blade. He pictured every physical aspect of the woman in place of himself. His body erupted in pain as if he were on fire, the skin flayed from his bones. The pain would be temporary. He had to focus.

All of him. He had to change it all.

He heard Victoria stifle a gasp as Tom’s body began to shrink. His bones made a sick, wet grinding noise as they remodeled themselves.

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