“Why me?” Amber asked.
To make her point, Julia stood tall, puffed up her chest and growled. Amber went white as a sheet, when Julia returned to her diminutive stance, she clued in.
“Right,” Amber said. “I know what you are, they won’t.”
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Julia woke up in a start, like a cat interrupted during their twelfth nap of the day. She was on all fours, back curved towards the ceiling, and claws digging into the floor. She was ready to pounce, or was until she noticed Amber cowering in the corner, and remembered what she dreamed about. No wonder I deserved to rot in prison…
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Julia counted fourteen dead. She tore into the throat of a man writhing in pain, silencing him entirely… That makes fifteen.
There were pools of blood everywhere and splatter throughout. While most of the spray came from slashing or blunt force trauma, shaking her head while biting into a chest cavity managed to paint the twelve-foot ceilings red.
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She built up speed and slammed head first into the door. The impact left a serious dent, but the door did not budge. Julia howled with rage, and several scurried about on the other side. Little pig, little pig won’t you let me come in?
Julia scanned the area while laughing like a hyena. On her left, there was a security room window. She slashed at the wall beside the frame, the cinder block crumbled under her attacks and created an opening.
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She sniffed and pushed through the doorway. As her head cleared the frame, a large red extinguisher smashed into her skull. The vessel deformed and ruptured from the impact. The gamble failed, and the cloud dissipated. Julia caught sight of the frost-covered idiot. He looked over what was left of the extinguisher, and then at the enraged werewolf. Out of options, the man cringed, and backed away.
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“Are you here for me?” Julia asked.
In that moment, Julia would have happily surrendered to Death. An end to all this pain and humiliation…
“No,” Eleanor replied.
Eleanor snapped her fingers. Presumably to freeze the world and prevent any interruptions. I can’t even tell if this cell is frozen.
“Oh,” Julia said, while tears rolled down her burning cheeks.
“I was here for another,” Eleanor said, “They were… unwilling to move on…”
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No matter, Julia took a deep breath and forced that air through her mouth. Her cheeks bulged before her lips were forced apart, sending a spray of blood towards her target.
“Bitch got blood in my eyes!” Chef yelled.
Before Julia could gloat, there came three pinches in quick succession on her calf, courtesy of an autoinjector. I hate that fucking thing!
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Julia smirked. They used that word in an attempt to degrade her, but there was comfort in embracing the werewolf within. She was in fact a bitch, and with every passing day they risked learning first hand what that entailed. We’ll see who’s my bitch then…
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Julia sat by a crackling fire at the heart of these woods. She leaned against her backpack for support while the sun surrendered the sky to the dominion of the moon. In spite of being isolated from all she knew, Julia had never felt more at ease.
That changed when the silvery light of the moon crept over these lands and shone upon her face. For years the moon had whispered to her in a language she did not understand. Tonight, her very soul understood she was being summoned.
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“Where am I going to go?” Julia asked, and gulped at the depth of that question.
Where could she go? Risk those in her church group? Mark her parish priest for death? Crawl to her boyfriend and tell him it was all a lie?
“I’m utterly alone,” Julia said. “Cops won’t believe a word.”
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