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"Okay," Jeongguk took a deep breath, "I have Tae's wolf pelt," he held out the grey and tan fur skin in his hands, letting Cecily run her hands over it slowly.

"H-how does this work?" she asked, her eyes going wide as she looked up at a nervous Jeongguk.

"I don't know how it is for every shifter," he explained, "For me, it feels like...I'm falling apart." He sighed at Cecily's terrified expression, "It's not really painful...a little...but not like you think. At, first...it's a lot of pressure inside of my body. The stretching, expanding...that part is a little painful and a lot uncomfortable." He paused, smiling sadly, "Then, it just feels like...you're separating from yourself...falling into pieces of ether...that part feels, nice...weightless." Jeongguk's eyebrows furrowed together, "But you have to push through it, not accept it. You have to focus on what you are becoming, human or animal."

Cecily took a deep breath, "Okay, focus, breathe, focus, wolf," she muttered, smiling up at Jeongguk, "We're not even sure this is going to work."

She hadn't told Jeongguk that she knew that she needed to be a wolf in order to complete their mating. She could tell that he was worked up enough as it was, and she didn't want to add any pressure or disappointment to him right then. She took the pelt from his hands, letting him help her placed it over her shoulders and head the way he had seen Taehyung do before. The weight of it both foreign and familiar. She had a moment of remembering wearing soft, beautiful furs, walking in the winter forest with her brother, throwing snow at one another playfully. She was small, maybe five, and before she had become Wild of the Vine...before he looked at her with contempt and hatred.

Cecily shook her head from her memories, focusing on the present. She took a few deep breaths, focusing on the feel of the fur against her skin, the shape of a wolf, the smell and taste of Taehyung that  she had committed to memory. She suddenly felt a buzzing feeling throughout her body, almost like every hair on her body was suddenly growing at a rapid rate. Her mouth tasted metallic, her vision blurring and a ringing in her ears. She felt like she couldn't get air into her lungs, her chest expanding but not pulling in proper breaths. 

'You're breathing," Jeongguk said calmly, "Your chest is numb, so it feels like you're not but you are, Baby. You're doing just fine. Close your eyes, let the warmth flow into you."

She did as he told her, closing her eyes as the rush of numbing heat took over her body. She felt herself expand, the stretch of her body burning and stinging. It gave her mind clarity, remembering Jeongguk's instructions, vaguely aware of him still speaking to her though she couldn't make out the words. She dragged her mind from reaching for the numbness, focusing on reforming into a wolf. Four legs, long and lithe, long ribcage and strong horizontal spine, muzzle and ears and eyes, she remembered every detail from when Jeongguk when he was in wolf form around her.

After a long minute, she lay on the floor panting, looking up at a smiling Jeongguk. She tried to speak, but her moth wouldn't work the way she wanted, only able to gasp for air in rapid breaths, She moved to stand, her body too heavy, her paws slipping on the floor as her limbs moved without coordination.

Paws?

She looked down at herself, seeing long furry legs, silver and white like her hair, large canine paws at the ends as she stretched them in front of her. A brief light emerged beside her, but she couldn't focus on anything past the black tip of her nose as her eyes tried to look at herself. Suddenly, a large black muzzle came into view, running over her own and to the tip, noses touching as two golden eyes stared into her own.

You did good, Baby. You're beautiful.

Kook?

It's me, this is how we can talk in our other forms. 

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