ARIA
Hunter brings me deeper and deeper into the forest and I am starting to feel nervous. Aren’t the security guys too far away now?
“They are werewolves, duh,” Lyra snorts, “They can hear you and reach your whereabouts within seconds anyway!”
Right… Good… Somehow that makes me feel better.
“Nervous?” Hunter asks, smiling reassuringly. And I gulp.
“Yeah,” I admit to him, “Does it hurt a lot?”
“Yes,” he answers after a momentary hesitation and I am grateful that he doesn’t try to sugar-coat it just to stay on my good side, “The first time it hurts a lot. And every time after that too, but you get used to the feeling and also can shift faster with time… Right now, for me, it feels like something completely normal. I don’t regard it as pain anymore…”
“When will it star
