AMARIS
A shadow hovered above me in the darkness.
I could tell that much through the thick haze clouding my vision and making everything swim. The features were blurred like someone had deliberately smudged them with their thumb, impossible to make out clearly no matter how hard I tried to force my eyes to focus.
Pain radiated through my body in sharp waves that made thinking difficult.
A voice cut through the ringing in my ears that sounded like bells going off inside my skull. "Amaris."
I tried to respond but my mouth would not work properly, my tongue felt thick and useless like it had swollen.
Then I saw the shift happening right in front of my eyes. Fur receding back into skin in ripples, bones cracking and reforming with sounds that should have been horrifying. The grotesque beauty of a werewolf transformation happening in reverse until a man knelt where a massive wolf had been standing.
