I watched for as long as I could. I ended up asleep a bit later. I dozed. Waking with a start and watching. I wanted to make sure they didn't hurt him irreparably. I couldn't see much. I was always able to see his face. Slack and relaxed in sleep. Time ticked by slowly. A tray was shoved in from somewhere. The meat smelled funny. It didn't smell like it was supposed to. So I ignored the tray.
I woke again from another nap to see another tray had appeared. It had the same smell as the first. I got the idea that they were putting something in it. Now what that item was for I had no idea. If it was to put me to sleep, make me sick or induce my heat. My guess was on the latter since I had been sleeping on my own. That's what bordem will do to you.
My stomach growled me awake. I was hungry. But I kept myself from eating that tainted meat. However I knew eventually I would have to. The other trays had been cleaned up so nothing sat there. Until thunk, another tray dropped. I stared at it. Finally my stomach could take no more. I hesitantly went over to it like it was going to jump up and bite me. I sniffed it. Smelled like all the others. I started to back away but my stomach decided to make itself known again. I growled at myself I had no choice. So I took a bite. Bite by bite I finished it. Then laid back down to see what it did to me.
I drowsed again. I vaguely remember a pinch in my side. A vial of blood being taken with something else. My brain was fuzzy couldn't make it out. Then I slipped back into oblivion.
I woke back in my box. I shook my head. Was that a dream or did the food really put me to sleep. If it did it wasnt like any sleep I have ever been in.
I looked at De'rax. He was still tied down to the table. Still out cold. I laid my head on my paws and waited. There wasn't any scientists around him now just him. He had tubes hooked to his arm and thigh. A monitor stood by him showing his vitals. I sighed in relief as I saw the heart line moving. I was lost. I had no idea what to do. Sleeping seemed to be my only choice but now I wasn't tired. I wasnt hungry either.
I started to catalog myself. I didn't feel hot or cold. But I neither was I thirsty. It was weird. So for the next few hours I just sat and watched De'rax. Nothing changed with him either. Not a twitch of muscle nor eye.
Time moves differently when you can't tell if it's day or night. All I had to go on was the dropping of a tray and from what I could tell it wasn't regular. If I was a weaker person I would have gone mad by now.
I wonder if that is what happened to that other wolf. If he went mad. I guess I would never know. Some time during my internal monolog to myself De'rax flinched.
I looked up to see his had twitch. Then curl around the table. I waited and watched for more movements.
It felt like hours but was probably only minutes when his arm moved. Then slowly as I watched his body started to shrink. As I watched it didn't shrink but change. He was shifting. The first one is always a doozy. It's painful and makes you want to vomit. It felt like it was happening in slow motion. First he started to sprout fur. Black fur with a silver tint. Then his arm and leg. His back bowed as he twisted. I couldn't hear him but his mouth was open in I only guess a scream.
It went on before slowly a black and silver wolf was laying on the table. My eyes widened in shock. He was bigger than me. Which could only mean he was more dominant then me. But I already knew that. My question to myself was this… was he my mate?