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“There are always shifters in the cafeteria,” Kasi said. “Let’s see if we can join some for a late breakfast.”
Remembering Miki-Leopard’s reaction to Taggart in the cafeteria the day before, I winced. “Okay, well, let’s hope my leopard doesn’t freak out again.”
Jasmine giggled. “Personally I’d pay good money to see you toss Taggart across the room again.”
“Wait. What happened?” Kasi asked.
Surprised thatJasmine hadn’t already told her, I shared the story as we walked down to the cafeteria.
Jasmine interjected often to add her observations, which included the look of shock on Taggart’s face as he was airborne and everyone else’s reactions after I’d been summoned to the Headmistress’ office.
“Everyone wanted to talk about it,” she said.
“I’m sorry you had to deal with that, Jasmine.”
“Don’t apologize! It was fabulous. So many students told me how happy they were to see someone take on Taggart and win.”
“It couldn’t have happened to a better guy,” Kasi agreed.
Jasmine snickered as she led the way inside the cafeteria.
Within minutes, it became apparent that finding a couple shifters to eat breakfast with wouldn’t be a problem.
By the time we’d made it through the lines and had our breakfast trays in hand, we’d had three invitations to join groups of shifters.
“Any preference?” Jasmine asked.
“Just not the wolves.” I glared at Taggart’s table.
“How about Sunny and Daya?” Kasi suggested. “Sunny’s a lynx and Daya’s a panther. They’ll probably be able to help the most with what to expect as a cat shifter.”
“Sounds good to me.”
We headed over to Sunny’s table and within a few moments were chatting about what it was like to be a shifter.
“You know, you didreally well out there,” Sunny said, startling me because I hadn’t noticed her in class.
I stared at her, incredulous. “My leopardattackeda dragon!”
“But she didn’t attack any of the students,” she countered.
“She tried or did you not notice Magnolia shrieking and running for her life?”
“Eh.” Sunny waved a hand as if to brush that aside. “Magnolia’s a bit melodramatic.”
Jasmine snickered.
“Honestly, she’s right,” Daya said. “You’re like a toddler shifter. Your leopard’s probably only come out a couple times since you woke from the coma, right?”
I bit my lip.
“Try once,” Jasmine said.
“What?” Sunny and Daya both looked shocked.
“Today was the first time I shifted,” I admitted. “My leopard hadn’t been exactly friendly since she manifested, probably because of what happened and how she was born, so I didn’t want to risk letting her out around my parents.”
“I take it back,” Sunny said. “You didn’t do really well. You didfantastic.”
