Kiryu beat Nate to Samantha--he was in wolf form and, after a certain point, he must have picked up her scent and so no longer needed to follow Nate. Good thing Nate was in decent shape for a mere human, or he would have been left even further behind.<br/><br/>But the important thing was Samantha. She was lying on the ground in her human form, apparently unconscious.<br/><br/>"I don't know what happened," Nate said, huffing from the run. "We were walking together--she was a wolf--and then she snarled at me and told me to leave. She was changing and--and I don't know. Something was wrong. Is she--she's breathing ok, right?"