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I saw you were trying to leave, and my dad was trying to stop you, but he's so much smaller than you, so there's no way he could have... so he brought down the shutters, locking you in...
     
    “That's when... that's when...”
     
    He knew what she was going to say before she said it. He remembered that night as though it were yesterday. If he had known she had been watching, he might well have just let her father have his way, and keep him as an oversized guinea pig forever...
     
    “That's when... you transformed. It was dark, and you moved so fast, so I couldn't see very well... But I heard you roar, and saw the hole you tore through the gate.
     
    “I don't know exactly what my father thought he could find out from you, or what he tried to do that would make you stop coming to see us. But I know what you are.
     
    “You're... you're a shifter, aren't you Bryan?”
     
    Even though he had known those words were coming, actually hearing them made him furious in a way he didn't think was possible. He felt the blood rise up to cloud his eyes, and the bile rise to the back of his throat. He had been discovered again. He would be rejected, hated... or, even worse, pitied.
     
    Dimly, he realized that the reason he was so consumed with rage was that, somewhere deep inside, he had entertained the idea that he might actually be able to live with this girl, to finally have a companion, a friend.
     
    That stupid dream had been crushed as soon as she had said those words. There was no way a sweet, innocent – if totally infuriating – girl like her could ever live with a monster like him.
     
    “You... knew that already? You knew I was a shifter?”
     
    “...Bryan? I'm sorry if you didn't want me to know, but I do, and I just thought... someone to sha–”
     
    “You came all the way here, alone in the woods with a man you barely know, with no one around for miles... knowing I was a shifter ?!”
     
    He was advancing on her, menacingly. She retreated a step, involuntarily.
     
    She was scared – scared stiff – but even more than that, filled with a kind of panic, worried that he'd misunderstood, that she'd hurt him somehow.
     
    “Bryan, you... you're not someone I barely know. I know you...”
     
    “Why do you keep saying that ?! How do you think you can know? How on earth do you think you can know... what it's like... to be like THIS ?!!”
     
    There was a tearing sound, like someone had ripped a slit through the fabric of space. It was followed by a great rumbling, like an avalanche just out of your field of vision.
     
    And Bryan started to change.
     
    He opened his mouth, as if to scream, but instead, his teeth swelled and lengthened, like the fingers on his massive hand. His snout grew out to make room for them, then his head bulged outwards, doubling in size in a second.
     
    With a whoosh, like a stiff autumn breeze through long grasses, hair started to sprout, from his forehead, to his neck, and all the way down him.
     
    Bryan's clothes took the strain for a suspended moment, before shattering into fragments, as his fur-covered arms ballooned in hard muscle, and his legs doubled in girth. He grew wider, and thicker, until he filled the whole of Lizbeth's vision, and the crown of his head grazed the high rafters.
     
    Over Lizbeth towered the overwhelming presence of a monolithic bear. Its fur was as black as night, golden eyes radiating rage and pain. The claws on its monumental paws could skewer her in an instant.
     
    Some time later, what seemed like an eternity later, she remembered the basics of how to breathe.
     

 
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    What have I done...?
     
    Bryan stared at the little woman down below him, and finally, the self-hatred and frustration in him turned more into shame and regret, rather than anger.
     
    What had possessed him to do this to her? It was all over from the moment she said she knew he was a shifter, but this? From this, she might never recover...
     
    It dawned on