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Yesi Those few seconds after he rounded the corner felt like an eternity. My chest ached as I held my breath, waiting on his next move. Lyric seemed just as frozen, watching me hesitantly. His shiny white eyes never straying from me. Time ticked on, taunting me with urgency. Beads of sweat trickled down the side of my face, and I knew it wasn’t from my tree-climbing. Hilargi, please keep Lyric away from me, I prayed to the mother of werebeasts out of desperation. Please, please, please… Then I watched his left paw twitch, and my entire body seemed to move on its own. I looped my arm through the handle of my basket and pushed away from the trunk of the tree, spinning in mid-air and curling into a half-crouch. By the time my sneakers hit the dirt, he had already taken those first few s