glass touch

Chapter 31

The stars are so pretty. They're always so bright and innocent looking and far different from the people of the world. All of the stars are so different though. Not just shape and size but brightness and beauty. This is what I think about to distract myself from the chaos happening behind me as Daniel, Vernea and I retreat from the alley.

Suddenly there's a shout from behind us.

"Daniel stop,"

Daniel stops and turns along with Verena. Thorne is rushing towards us failing his arms in the air like a crazed man and desperately trying to catch up before us. Before I can recover from everything else I'd just seen, Thorne makes the shock even worse when his form starts to change. His black hair grows down his entire body and his wings practically shrink back into his back. His nails change to claws that dig into the earth, and he begins running on all fours. His nose elongates and his ears pop up from the top of his head. He looks like an animal...

A wolf,

When he finally gets to us he stares up at Daniel and I with expectancy. Daniel nods instantly knowing what to do and before I can ask what the hell happened to Thorne or what his plan was he sits me down on Thorne's back!

"No way!" I objected looking up at Daniel beseechingly.

Daniel nods and crosses his arms.

"It's quicker and easier. but no time for that." Daniel elevartes into the air again along with Verena. They both flap their wings lightly. "We need to go,"

"Go where?" I ask him.slightly irritated

He looks over his shoulder at me and stares into my eyes.

"Anywhere but here."

And we take off,

Never have I been jerked around so much by a force that was stonger than me. thorne had always been kind and gentle so I knewit wasn't his fault but everyime ...his paws rose up and fell to meet the cement. I felt the impact greatly. With each step I heard him pant. Never before In my life had I seen creatures so speactaculatly insane. Mortals with wings. Men with claws! I'd only ever heard about things like that in movies.

As we curved through many different alleys and further away from the growing fight I heard Cass let out a cry in the distance, followed by a loud whimper from Aaron, I bit the inside of my cheek and let out a pained main. I almost felt his pain with him. The thought of him getting hurt was equivalent to the agnoy of ten thousand daggers piercing my soul.

Finally Daniel and Verena stopped flying and landed on the ground in front of a tall brick building. Thorne screeched to a halt, sliding about five feet forward on the cement. He whined at the burning on his paws and I couldn't help but to feel sorry for him. His paws must be bleeding.

Daniel lifted me off Thorne's back and ince I was out of his way. Thorne changed back to his original form. His clothes were tapered and ripped and hanging in shreds from his body and his hands which had once been his paws were bleeding. He had lost his shoes when he'd transformed and his feet were a bloody mess too,

"Ah! Dammit!"  Thorne yelped desperately wiping the blood on his already ruined flannel

"This will do" Vernea pointed her finger at the doorknob. I heard a click! And when Daniel reached for the doorknob and began turning it, it opened.

Verena had unlocked the door just by pointing at it.

Daniel walked into the building and I could see a cement floor ahead. He peered around a few corenrs then looked back at all of us and nodded his head foreward.