At no point had Nanook expected her to be awakened as herself either. He had no idea if this was the result of the other one wanting her to suffer the pain, or her coming through again. Honestly he hoped that Marissa could take the opportunity right here to totally embrace the beast that he had wanted her to become. This would have been an ideal moment, he assumed, to kill that false psyche that lived inside of her.<br/><br/>The last thing that she had been likely to hear, he would have assumed, was his otherworldly worship of the moon in the form of his head thrown back against the black outline of the sky, giving way to a vicious sounding howl.<br/><br/>When he had first been torn into, well back when he was a human, he felt confused and betrayed. It was a lonely feeling and he had the opportunity to choose heaven as opposed to a beastly existence on Earth. He admitted that it was a difficult decision to say the least. Nothing could have told him what she had been doing at the crossroads. He only knew one thing for sure, and that was that she had to be there.<br/><br/>For all he knew, there might have been two people trapped in there. Undoubtedly both of them would have been fighting to get out. He supposed there was only one thing left for him to do.<br/><br/>That was, of course, to continue that chorus of wolfsong that spanned out through the cold night air, and thus he kept howling. With his eyes shut and his tail flat behind him, that sound of his lupine voice could very well have also been the first thing that she would have heard once she woke up.<br/><br/>Nanook might have assumed that the first thing that she was likely to see when she woke up was the light of the full moon. Had the curse been running throughout her blood at this point, gazing into that pale white disk would have been almost a requirement.<br/><br/>Judging by the noises that she had made and the smell that had filled his nostrils, Nanook could guess which one of the two people had survived. He figured that it was the one that he had done all of this to protect in the first place. While she might have started to remember what was going on, something told Nanook that she was going to undergo her first shift in a few moments.<br/><br/>All of that moonlight shining down on her, even hidden by the Los Angeles smog, would have made it almost unstoppable.<br/><br/>Then again, if she were in pain, she had only to feel the pain of her first transformation before it would perhaps finally be over.<br/><br/>She was going to open her eyes now as a beast.