They crossed the edge.
The air changed on the first step. Denser. The primordial energy accumulated over millennia entering Kai's resonance Qi as a continuous frequency — not hostile, not friendly, presence.
Serah walked two steps ahead of the group.
Kai followed her. Lira and Mara behind.
Fifty meters from the edge, Serah stopped.
She let her hair down.
And she changed.
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The change wasn't slow. It wasn't graphic. Serah's body bent forward for a second and when it straightened up she was no longer a woman of one seventy-five.
She was a wolf. Enormous. On four legs, with her muzzle reaching the height of Kai's chest. Silver-gray fur with the same markings Serah had on human skin, now running along the sides of her neck and her front legs.
Silver eyes. The same ones.
Kai looked at her.
'She's bigger than I expected.'
'Considerably bigger.'
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[DraconicLegacy]: (°ロ°) SERAH'S WOLF FORM ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
[Stephen_Summers]: she reaches Kai's chest. and Kai isn't short.
