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52 The Howler's empty blue eyes locked on Erek.

"Erek, get a grip," I said with forced calm.

He shook himself and the hologram stabilized, but the Howler kept
watching him.

"Six against one, Jake," Rachel said. "We won't get better odds."

I felt my stomach clench. Sheer drop on both sides. Unknown terrain
below. Not the place for a fight. But Rachel was right: It was the time.

"Morph," I said quietly. "Ax? You take the lead. Tobias? Get some
altitude. Guide? Back off, this isn't your fight. Erek? Stay out of the
way."

That sounded harsher than I'd intended. But my heart was hammering and I
was feeling the fear-sweat down my back. It had happened too soon. We
weren't ready. We were tired from the run-ins with the Warmaker Iskoort.

But mostly, mostly I was seeing pictures in my head. The eye. Crayak.
The image from my dream. I could almost hear him laughing. Just a
figment of my imagination, but it felt real enough.

Six against one. It wasn't going to get any better.

I began to morph, to call on the tiger DNA that swam through my blood.
The tiger would be bigger than the Howler. The six of us together in
morph can take on anything, I told myself. We can take on anything.

53 The Howler's blue eyes narrowed as we shifted positions. He knew a
fight when he saw one coming. But he was fascinated by the morphing.
Fascinated and almost jealous, if it's possible to read an expression on
a face made of tar with eyes as empty as sky.

I felt the morph working on my body. The orange fur grew from my hands
and arms. I had no time to get out of my clothes. They'd be torn apart
by the morphing. Fur spread across my body. My fingers swelled, dark
leather on the palms, orange and white on the back. Claws that could
leave slash marks in a car door grew to replace my useless human
fingernails.

I heard the organs inside me shifting, squishing, relocating,
configuring themselves for the tiger body.

A long tail sprouted from the base of my spine and immediately began to
snap back and forth, twitching in agitation and anticipation.

I fell forward onto all fours. This made my head several steps lower