~Tinker! Stop moving, you have to calm down!..... I need you to focus for me.... Focus on how you looked and felt as a wolf. Remember your fur and the scents and sights..... Just focus on it and nothing else.......~ He knelt and put a comforting hand on her half furred shoulder.<br/><br/>Tinker gritted her teeth in a vain attempt to still their chattering. As  the horrid sensation of feeling twisted  drove sweat down her human face, Tinker looked in horror at the wavering between human hands and wolf paws. Warren’s presence calmed her and his soothing voice washed over her, temporarily stemming the panic.<br/><br/>She concentrated on his measured breathing as she placed her paws or was it her hands on his arms. She looked into his eyes and listened to the instructions to focus on being wolf, on being herself. The first thought she had was of the forest’s wavy light, the scent of earth and trees in her nose, the crumbling clay under her paws as she ran with the wind blowing through her fur. Suddenly she was lost in wolf, remembering all the things she loved of the life. And running with her tail streaming behind her.<br/><br/>Her body gave a great lurch and bones popped. As they snapped,, her head was pulled backward and a human scream escaped her but ended in a wolf’s howl. Tinker collapsed in a heap on the floor, fully wolf once more. She lay there, breathing deeply but worried about the scratches on her belly. Finally when she was able to sit up, she licked the fur on her belly, noticing it smelled like pine trees and fresh air. There was no scent of blood left.<br/><br/>“I don’t have scratches any more. Where are the scratches?  Warren, I feel funny. I think my paws look bigger,” Tinker said in pack speak which could not disguise her shock. “Warren, am I bigger? I feel different. Do you think that wolf had some kind of poison in his claws that infected me? What is going on? You don’t look like a half human, half cat. Why did I look so wrong? What did I look like as a human? OOOO, I feel dizzy.”<br/><br/>With that, Tinker slid back to the floor and put her head on her paws.