(Nisha)
The wolf huffed and seemed to whine. I wanted to reach toward it, but it took off before it could. I wasn’t afraid, if anything I was drawn to it, drawn to him in the same way I was drawn to Cameron. I guessed they were the same entity, but I couldn’t describe it when something else I didn’t have a word for clicked into place.
I walked around the clearing and tried to will my shadows away from me to form a barrier. I ended up with a few wisps of shadows forming a nearly invisible wall that was hard to the touch. I saw a bunny come up and sniff at it and turn away, unable to get through. At least it would protect us from fuzzy animals, I thought dryly.
Cameron came back wearing only his pants and walked right through the barrier. My shadows I left there opened up for him, and I
