Zeenia turned around to see the source of the voice. It said, "Please don't run away, I am not going to attack you."
She asked him, "How is it you can talk?"
"I am not what I appear to be," it said.
It paused and then changed into a human form. He said, "I am a shifter. I have been sent by Theodore to save you from Dr. Francis. I will take you back to him. Follow me."
Zeenia said that she had a friend with her, who had probably fractured his bone. He too needed to be rescued.
The shifter said that her friend Tom had already been taken care of. He had been shifted to a hospital. She then followed him to the bank of the river and then they swam up to the waiting boat. She then bid farewell to the "Island of Montreal or Ile de Montreal," owned by Dr. Francis. The captain as it had been
