When Jamole’s wolf crash-landed, pounced on his limbs and morphed into human, he barged into his chamber, to meet Oril fast asleep in bed and he wondered if she had been asleep since he left to kidnap Julius and Prof Duncan. He stared around his chamber and noticed this strange hush of silence that hung over him. Suddenly his chambers seemed strange to him and he perceived the presence of a shifter.; his suspicion was fast and accurate and he need not be told a shifter came around his chambers today in his absence.

The moment she woke up from sleep he was going to ask Oril if any shifter...