The others shoved me forward, closer to the puddle of oozing goo. I bit my lip and glanced between it and the rest of the wolves. They wasted no time in jumping right through and swimming into the muck. As a wolf I would have been able to get some sort of momentum, but as a human I was worried I'd be buried beneath the slop. Why had I been cursed like this?

　　"Girl," snarled one of the wolves beside me. He snapped and I was hard-pressed to jerk my limb out of the way before ...