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glowing amber eyes.  N atashia knew, they must be close to Jack.  Very close, or Nadia would be a Halfling as well.  Nadia sniffed a few areas around the tanks and squatted and marked a few areas.  She tried to claw the tanks as her mother did, but her paws were not equipped to do the damage that her mother’s hands could do. 
    Once the two felt reasonably sure that they had marked as much as they could, and their collective bladders were empty, they shifted back and quickly dressed.  Without thought of saf ety, they slipped on the light sandals they had brought and snuck from behind the tanks, again heading in the direction that Nadia felt herself being pulled.
    “We are close, little one.  I am sure of it.” Natashia said.  “You assumed the form of the wolf again.”
    “I did?” she questioned, not sure what to make of it.
    “Quite sure.” Her mother replied, her eyes misting.  “Pe rhaps the most beautiful sight a mother could behold.”
    Nadia reached for her hand and they ran as quickly as they could to the next largest buildings that could give them cover.  An old aircraft hangar sitting off by itself could give them a place to hide.  They knew, with a helicopter and a few trucks sitting around it, that it most likely had people inside, but were unsure just who those people might be.
    As they approached the rear of the hangar, they could hear activity inside.  Equipment running, people talking, laughing, unfamiliar noises, electrical devices humming, engines starting and driving away.  Then a familiar smell hit Nadia’s nose and she froze, her eyes widening with joy.  “Jack!” she exclaimed.  “Mother, of all the luck, we’ve found Jack!”
    “So soon?  I think not.  I think your desires are playing tricks on you, my dear.”
    “No.  I can smell him.  The bond pulled me here, and it’s him !” she took off at a dead run, looking for a way in to the building, Natashia hot on her heels.  Nadia ran across the east side of the building.  She could see windows, but they were too high for her to see inside the building.  She called out his name, but her voice could not penetrate the steel walls or be heard over the din of the activity.  As she spun around the corner at the north end of the building, the hangar doors were open, she could see men working all through the building, a guard shack at the other side of the doors and a guard inside, but she sprinted across the pavement and through the open door before he could even leave his little building.
    “Jack!” she yelled, desperate to find him.  “Jack!”  Men stopped what they were doing in mid action, heads turned from all over the hangar, tilting like a puppy who couldn’t quite figure out what it was they were seeing.  All of them wearing uniforms, she knew, this was not the place to be wrong or she would be in a lot of trouble, but…now that she was inside, the scent of her mate was overpowering.  The pull of their bond, overbearing.  She sprinted to the back of the hangar, still yelling his name, “Jack!”
    A really large, dark-skinned man stepped in front of her and she nearly collided with him.  His hand was held out in front of her.  When he spoke, she almost imagined his voice was the voice of thunder itself.  “You’re not authorized to be in here.”  It was truly a statement.  Nadia tried to backpedal and found herself nearly falling.
    “Nadia!” Jack called out.  He ran to her and she skirted the large man with the voice of thunder to embrace her mate.  She held him so tightly that he feared she would squeeze the life from him, and she shook as she cried. 
    Apollo approached them and Jack tried to explain to him, “Easy there, Apollo.  This is my…um…my wife.”
    Apollo was taken aback.  “When did this happen, buddy?  I mean, last I heard, you were…”
    “It is true!” Nadia exclaimed.  “We are mated.  Forever!”
    Apollo’s eyes reflected the shock he felt, and the other squad