The doorway led into a vast office filled wall-to-wall with computer monitors. Examining them closely had chilled you to the bone. Almost every building in Haven was being monitored from this room. Your most private moments, intimate encounters, and daily routines were on display here. Before you could move on, another werewolf, a loner named Elan, had burst from the opposite door. He didn't seem surprised to see you, and waved you onward. This was Colonel Williams's private office, he said, and that wasn't the worst of it. Haken had begun an attack on the military base in your absence!
Unsure whether or not to trust Elan, you followed him warily through a small cylindrical chamber. The door behind you slammed shut, locking the three of you in as a strange liquid rained from the ceiling, reverting you to your human forms. As you looked down at your pink, fleshy body in confusion, you heard a gasp. "It can't be!"
It Was
The werewolf known as Elan stared back at you, now in human form, and you finally knew him for who he really was: the base's human commander, Colonel Williams! Human soldiers burst from the opposite door, hauling the reverted Colonel away with them, but they hadn't counted on your rage. You burst through the door, Jolon on your heels, and knocked Williams to the floor.
You held back, trying to think even as your inner beast screamed to be let loose on the monster in front of you. There had to be a logical way out of this!
With you and Jolon under control, the human soldiers turned their attention to Williams. One of them walked forward, his face twisted in a sneer as he fired on the Colonel. Williams gasped in shock as his now-human body dropped to the floor. So the soldiers hadn't known that their commander was a werewolf in disguise, you'd thought. Taking the distraction as an opportunity, you and Jolon had made a run for it, disappearing around a corner before the humans could give chase. The two of you were halfway across the gigantic laboratory before you realized that the soldiers had never even bothered following you.
It didn't take you and Jolon long to transform back into your werewolf forms and escape the medical building once Williams had been put down. Along the way you found Ahote locked in a small cell. He'd been turned human, much like you, but it seemed that prolonged exposure to Williams's "cure" might have made his transformation permanent.
When you finally reached the outside, you'd encountered Haken along with a few wolves of his war party just in time to see them savagely tear a human soldier to shreds. Williams had been telling the truth—Haken had begun a war in your absence! It was too late to turn back now; the only choices were to join the battle and fight for your freedom, or hold back, trying to stop the killing where you could while gathering the wounded and getting them to safety.
You'd retreated from the worst of the fighting, encouraging your packmates to retreat peacefully. Along the way back toward werewolf territory, you encountered a trio of helpless wolves trapped under a collapsed concrete structure. You stopped to help them at the risk of being gunned down yourself, releasing the unfortunate would-be revolutionaries from certain death.
By the time you'd reached the bridge that led back home, it was too late. The humans had amassed a terrifying force to box you in, including a steel-plated tank with a main gun large enough to tear each of your wolves to pieces before you could even reach it. Retreating back the way you came, you and your followers ran into Haken again. The Warmaster had also been routed, and both groups merged, taking shelter in a defensible perimeter down by the shoreline.
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