"Madam Alpha?" she asked reaching out to touch my muzzle.

'Of course she would know how I smelled,' I thought internally.

Tenderly I laved her chest and neck. She lay silently accepting the ministrations tears quietly rolling down her cheeks. When I was done I sat back and looked at her. I wanted desperately to talk to her about what had happened.

The ground came toward me and I watched it, apparently I grew quite a lot when I shifted. My hands shrunk as the fur receded. I sat down heavily beside Emily getting reacquainted with my human body.

Emily sat up beside me tears drying on her cheeks. She...