"Shift back," I said, and there were suddenly seven more humanoids in the room.

I went over all the reasons why werewolves needed help breeding, and how it needed to be accomplished, the genetic reasons why wolves didn't have diseases and aged differently. I explained that Sean and I were both part wolf, but wholly human, and that Sasha was Sean's mother, and if Anna wanted human children, she needed only mate with a male wolf in his human shape, and she'd have what she needed, but if she mated with a wolf in its wolf shape, she'd have a werewolf puppy, who'd live about three hundred years. They asked...