Chapter 4
He carried the two mugs to the narrow table and put one in front of Zyl, now settled on one of the two stools. “Different? How do you mean? What do you mean?”
“They’re all like me. Shapeshifters, beast kin, Were-kind. You sensed it. I could tell. You were afraid or unwilling to believe, though. They recognized you as kin. I told you there’s a cat inside you. Not sure what kind, definitely a feline though.”
Carl sat down before he collapsed. It made perfect sense, even though it went against everything he’d always believed. All he’d told himself and clung to for some tie to reality, to sanity. “I-I-I don’t know what to say, what to think. I want to deny it as I always have. Now it’s getting harder.”
He clenched his hands around the mug, letting the heat leach into his flesh an
