Chapter 0773

Nina

The weathered old leader rushed to the unconscious man's side, cradling his sweat-drenched face in his calloused hands. For several agonizing heartbeats, the newly-cured man didn't move or make a sound.

Matt, Jessica, Lori and I stood off to the side, biting our lips. We watched silently, hoping that the antidote had worked properly this man wasn't a wolf shifter, after all. Perhaps the side effects were different than expected.

Just when I was starting to fear the worst, the man's eyelids fluttered open, his glassy eyes wandering the room before managing to settle on Kai.

"Wh-Who is this?" the man whispered, lifting his weak hand to touch Kai's face.

"It's me, Isaac. Your father." Kai took Isaac's hand and pressed it into his cheek, letting his fingers explore his face. Isaac, still blind, wandered his father's face before recognition took over him.

audible rasp, like rusty hinges creaking open on

the old leader's face as he gripped Isaac tighter. "What matters now is that you're alright, my boy," he murmured hoarsely. "You're safe now. Thanks to..." He paused, looking up at me

to touch his arm. "My name is Nina. I gave you an antidote to pull you out of your feral

know." Isaac nodded weakly. "I can feel the absence of my panther. But it's better

brief silence. I looked over at Kai, and he nodded, encouraging me. "Isaac, I have to ask you,"

all of us straining to catch Isaac's

was... trapped," he muttered, his brow furrowing as he tried to recall everything. "In that body, that... animal. But now..."

son. You are yourself again, thanks to Nina. But now, you

he simply stared blankly up at the ceiling, his eyes glazed and vacant. Then, a tremor seemed to pass through him, and a spark of clarity

these... pools. It looks like water, but it's not. And the steam... At first it's not so bad, just a tickle in your lungs, a thickness

recalled whatever fresh hell he had endured. I felt a chill run down

your very bones, until your thoughts start to... twist. Fracture. Every breath is agony, burning you from the inside

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