Chapter 31

Amaris immediately turned around to look around the cell. There was nothing in there, but the walls that were made of steel had huge gouges into the metal. You could see that it was very thick metal and it had been pushed in and dented. It made Amaris shiver. Is that what being a werewolf meant that she would become an uncontrollable beast that needed to be locked up once a month? Amaris turned back around to face Gran only to find that she was alone. Amaris ran forward and grabbed the bars and called out. “ Gran! Gran, where did you go? Gran where are you?” No answer came back to her. She was stuck in this cell, locked in. There was no way out unless someone came and let her out.

Amaris felt a little dizzy. She sat down on the floor and leaned against the wall. She was down here all alone now. Why would Gran leave her here locked up? Amaris had no idea if anyone else knew that she was here, or what time it was. She knew what was coming from what both Gran and Anna had said and it was not something that she wanted to go through alone. She wanted Anna to be there with her as she promised. Amaris began feeling sick to her stomach and then cold all over. She pulled her knees up and hugged them as she tried to ride the wave of nausea. Blinding pain hit out of no where and seemed to radiate out from her chest to all her limbs. She felt like she was being stretched out like an elastic and would rip apart. The chills turned into a scorching heat in each limb. It still radiated from her center with the pain and only served to increase it. She was now sprawled on the floor writhing in pain. The pressure was increasing and now it had Amaris pulled taught. She was at her breaking point. Pop! Suddenly one limb and then another seemed to give way and then just as quickly reform. The last to feel this excruciating pain was her head and torso. It grew until she thought that she would pass out and then all at once both seemed to give and slide into place. There was a sudden warm and peaceful feeling. A rightness about her body that Amaris had not felt before. She got up and realized that the motion was different. She was somehow smaller. She looked down to see two furry paws. She looked to her side and saw pale silvery fur that almost glowed white. It appeared that she was lighting up the room.

Amaris sat and looked at herself. She had wondered if all the things that everyone was saying were even real, but now she believed it. She found that she yearned to be free to run through the forest, but she was locked in the cell. Now that she had really turned into a werewolf, she knew why Gran had asked her to lock herself in there. It was for her protection as well as everyone else’s. However she had kept her mind and was able to think clearly, there was no reason that she needed to stay in there. Amaris tried pushing on the door but it would not budge. She tried to bite it, claw at it, still nothing. She took a running leap and jumped on it with all her might, but the bars were not going to give way. She hung her head and leaned on it and wished that they would just disappear so she could be free.

Suddenly she fell forward into thin air. The bars were gone. She was free. She hurried to the ladder and scrambled up to the trap door which she pushed open with her head. She leaped off the ladder and out into the open and immediately broke into a run. The forest was cool in the night air and she found it easy to see to navigate between the trees and the brush. To run was exhilarating, and she just wanted to go faster. Soon everything was a blur and she came out at the river. The clouds had faded away and the moon was clear and bright. She felt a surge of power flow through her like a battery being recharged. It was wonderful. She felt whole and right. Amaris could feel all the living creatures in the woods around her. Every heart beat. Every breath of the animals she could feel. She could also feel the other wolves out in the forest and they were getting closer.