Chapter 6

"Her eyes turned silver," the wounded man whispered as he pressed his throat into the mud.

The words reached me through a world that had become painfully sharp. I heard rain striking leaves, the taxi driver's uneven breathing near the road, and another vehicle approaching from more than a mile away.

My new body towered over the men who had hunted me. White fur covered legs built for speed and violence, while black veins from the silver injection crawled beneath the skin of my left shoulder.

The brown wolf beneath the broken tree tried to rise. A growl rolled from…