Their surprised faces earlier when I’d shifted so quickly had been priceless. Blade had kept telling me last night I shouldn’t expect to get it right on my first try, but it’d just happened. One moment I’d been terrified of the strange sensations skittering through my entire body, and the next, I had changed into a wolf by just thinking about the shift.

I couldn’t wait to grin proudly into the commander’s face once he caught up with me.

Ralph had asked me to tell him every little ...