Hookwolf- No Talking

He would have told her to ignore it, but he couldn’t speak. For that matter, neither could she.
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It was a risk, he knew, but he needed a few moments to pull himself together and rebuild his body. He let his head and upper chest emerge from the core, taking form in the hollow metal ‘head’ of his canid form.  “What do you people want?” he asked.

Interlude 11e