“What?” Ashleigh asked with shock and confusion. “Human? How is that even possible?”
“They saw what worked with me and repeated the experiment,” Alice sighed. “You saw the files. There were supposed to be twice as many in this room.”
Ashleigh remembered seeing the children's files and wondering what had happened to the rest.
“The conversion from human to wolf, even with the combined DNA, is still incredibly dangerous,” Alice said. “The last time I was here, I was locked in my mind. But I was awake long enough when I entered the room to recognize the conversion in process.”
Ashleigh stared at Alice in horror.
“I saw these children shifting for the first time and many more for the last time,” Alice said with a ripple of anger below the surface of her words. “That is the memory that brought me to you to come here and save the children that remained.”
“Alice…” Ashleigh whispered.
