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Jade was growling again.
It started in her belly and made its way out of her throat like a low rumble, forming cracks in her shell like a baby bird waiting to hatch.
Tori just continued braiding her hair like it was no big deal. She had compared it to a car on standby last time, and the time before that, head rested on her back, holding onto Jade’s outsides as her insides broke apart, she had compared it to a purring kitten.
At this point, the slander just wrote itself. “What does it sound like this time?”, she pushed out between elongated teeth and a mouth that was contorting itself into a snout if she were to let it.
The hands in her hair stilled, instead going over to smoothing over shaggy patches of fur, that were trying to appear on her shoulder and spread from there. Jade shuddered, suppressing another growl, would have even succeeded at it, if it wasn’t for the pain that came with it, tearing her in half. The noise that left her was halfway between the growl and a whimper. Whatever face Tori made at that, the tears gathering in Jade’s eyes prevented her from seeing it.
“Squeaky toy.”
“Excuse me! I am not-“, she shuddered again, and the rest of the words were swallowed in the creaking of bones she was desperately trying to hold together with her willpower alone.
Jade West would not transform. That was what she had sworn herself. Her dad had been oh so proud of her for showing signs of wolfhood early and she would not give him the satisfaction. Not until he was ready to see her for who she was, first. And that was that.