Emily lay on one of many of the couches in the main living room, the new puppy on her stomach and a book a few inches from her face. Her hoodie still smelled heavily of the wolf, which she didn't seem to mind. She had actually started to not notice it. Paxton certainly smelled different as a wolf, but it seemed to be something that fully dissipated once he began human again.
She wondered if poor Bernard had gotten himself lost again. The man must have been starving by the time he changed, always trying to force himself to be a vegetarian. She smiled as she remembered her Paxton breaking through the sternum and eating the man's hurt without a thought. It had been beautiful. How could Bernard struggle against that? Surely it was causing him pain...
It wasn't a part of him, just him! The same as Ash. She hadn't really understood that before, but now-? It made sense.
But really, her mind just kept wandering back to the blood on Paxton's fangs and claws in the moonlight.