He fit right in, especially as a hunter. He loved to mix it up with those huge wild boars, and Craig was happy that I was leaving them to him.

Now I just needed to find him a mate.

She wasn't among our Pack, our population skewed young due to the refugees, plus the mating age women were all mated- and driving our average steadily down as they had their children. I was lying on the floor in front of the couch in cat form, having learned that shifting late in pregnancy was tough- and giving birth as a cat was MUCH easier. I was watching my children play when...