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“That’s super cute,” Jasmine said.
“I have to agree,” Jahrdran said.
“Maybe I should come up with a name for your monster side,” Kasi told him. “Let’s see. How about Vulfie?”
Jahrdran looked horrified. “Definitely not.”
“I’ll have to think about it some more,” Kasi said, “because I agree. Mikaela-Leopard is adorable.”
“Well, thanks,” I said, “but she told me she preferred Miki-Leopard.”
“That’s even cuter!” Jasmineexclaimed.
I rolled my eyes. “That’s not the point, Jasmine.”
She looked confused. “Well, what is the point?”
“My leopardspokewith me. And that wasn’t the only thing she had to say.”
“Really?” Jasmine didn’t look horrified. Instead, she looked excited. “But that’s so cool.”
“Jasmine,” Kasi spoke quietly, one look telling me that she understood exactly why I wasn’t enthused about this development.
Jasmine must have seen it too because she fell silent.
“So what else does your leopard say?” Kasi asked me.
I shrugged. “Not a lot. At least not yet. She kept callingElliot Bad-Dragon and obsessed over how he smelled. She said it was different.” I wasn’t about to mention that she’d also said it was yummy. “I think she meant different from Zowen. So I tried to explain that they weren’t the same person, but I don’t know if she got it since she continued calling Elliot Bad-Dragon.”
Jasmine snickered.
“Is that how she said it?” Kasi asked. “Bad-Dragon?”
I nodded. “Like it was one word, or his name or something. Why?”
“Did she say it in a sentence orjustBad-Dragon?”
“She didn’t speak in sentences at all, just a few words here and there, but somehow she got her idea across despite the lack of words.”
“Yeah,” Kasi said. “Sounds familiar.”
That’s what I was afraid of.
“I don’t know how to tell you this, Mikaela,” Kasi said.
“You think she’s a shadow-kitten, don’t you?” I asked.
“Well, maybe not fully shadow-kitten since she has a physical form, but I think Zowen somehow managed to force your leopard to appear and because it happened in the Shadow Realm, she became a bit of the shadows herself. Basically, I think he created a shadow-shifter.”
“That explains what happened when Elliot shifted,” Jasmine said.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“He was huge and that fall should have hurt you, but it’s like you just disappeared and reappeared a few seconds later. Ithought maybe he’d done something to keep you from falling.”
I shook my head. “It wasn’t him. It was Miki-Leopard.Shedid something. It felt like we were pulled in a thousand different directions, all at once, then shoved back together again a few seconds later.”
“That’s what a shadow-beast does,” Kasi said. “It’s also what Shadow does.”
