CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN – SHE HAS SEEN TOO MUCH

Just then, a new disturbance rippled through the transformed others. Cassie watched in abject horror as their brutish forms succumbed to more profound changes still - thick pelts thickening and shifting in pigment, muzzles elongating into more pronounced lupine contours. They dropped to all fours with distressing fluidity, baleful amber eyes glowing as the torchlight flickered over bristling, unnatural anatomies. Whatever human shreds of identity still clinging to their countenances had been shed completely. There was nothing but pure, undiluted BEAST emanating from the prowling, growling silhouettes encircling the chamber. An anguished whimper escaped Cassie's throat before she could muffle it. Instantly, one pair of those lambent predator eyes snapped around, locking on her huddled form in the entryway. In the blink of an eye, a snarling mass of bristling fur and muscle came hurtling across the chamber, moving with unnatural speed. Before Cassie could even draw a breath to scream,