~ GAR ~
Gar sighed and pulled Rika in tighter against his ribs, stroking a strand of hair from her face, half-hoping that she'd wake up and pull his thoughts away from impossible problems that he couldn't solve. But she was exhausted. Had barely slept while they'd been apart. And now with him there—laying in his "big, manly arms" as she put it—she'd gone out like a light.
So Gar stared at the ceiling and set his mind to the problem that he could bear to think about.
Pegg could shift. That, in and of itself, would have been a massive revelation. But the reason Pegg had been shocked… that was an earthquake that threatened to shift the plates under this entire conflict with the Chimera.
Something was killing the Creatures.
Creatures, the Chimera who lived in twisted, half-human, half-beast forms, who were supposedly the human "accidents"—never able to shift, never able to reproduce, always male and always one of a kind…
