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embrace.
    The two parents set off into the woods. They moved without making a sound as they searched for another resting place. Nathaniel stumbled and went down on one knee and stood back up on shaky legs. His wife looked at him with concern and said, “Can you go on?”
    “I must,” he said through gritted teeth. Blood vessels had burst in his eyes and the skin of his lips had started to crack and ooze blood. “I need to hunt and feed as soon as we find a safe place for the children.”
    Long term hibernation could ravage a shifters body and they had both heard the tales of people walking up and then dying before they fed. The stories told of a death that was long and painful and once the process started no amount of feeding could save you.
    “Spread out,” Nathaniel said.
    They moved apart and kept each other in their eye line. The two figures moved with speed through the forest as they looked for a suitable location. After ten minutes of searching Melissa let out a low whistle and Nathaniel headed in her direction. She was standing in front of a large oak tree, part of the earth had collapsed around its roots exposing a large cavity.
    “This is perfect,” he said. The space between the roots was big enough for the two children to fit. They lowered each child into the hole and kissed their white cheeks. The two young children lay in the dirt and then drew close to each other and embraced in an iron grip. Nathaniel looked at his wife as she gazed down at the children. Melissa’s right eye was crossed with broken blood vessels making her eye look like it had turned completely red. “We have to hunt,” he said trying to hide any fear from his voice.
    They gathered up some fallen branches and covered the hole and then scooped up handfuls of earth and covered as much as possible. Melissa threw a bunch of moss she had collected on top and arranged it over the makeshift closing. They stood back and looked at it. It would have to do, it wouldn’t stand up to intense scrutiny, in the moment they had no choice. They needed to feed.
    Nathaniel squeezed his wife's hand. Both her eyes were now bloodshot and her lips had stared to bleed. He imagined he was starting to look a lot worse. The hearing in his left ear had stopped a couple of minutes ago and he could hear a low whistle. The joints of his fingers were starting to stiffen and his whole body was beginning to feel to like it was covered in a layer of ice.
    The couple had hunted together countless times and they moved through the forest without any need for verbal communication. Melissa headed away from her husband to flush prey in his direction. They moved with fluid speed though the woods, their senses in overdrive as they perceived the tangled mesh of the forest system and searched for signs of a prey. The hunt had begun and the two shifters could feel the cold hand of death reaching out to them if they did not succeed.

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    Grace & Anne
    T he Doctor took a flat plastic packet out of his bag and ripped the seam open. He unfolded the paper smock and put it on. He opened a second packet and then snapped on a pair of surgical gloves. He turned and faced Grace and did a small bow in her direction. “What we have here is a fine example of a female from the black bear clan. A women of her age is at her peak.I think you will enjoy what she has to offer,” The Doctor said and walked to the other side of the table. He picked up a scalpel and held it up to the light. He bent forward and made an incision in Annes side. Grace felt the colour drain from her face and her hands and fingers began to tingle as she watched the flesh separate easily under the blade.
    Tulimak put his hand on Graces shoulder and she feel the strength in his fingertips. “See we learned from the humans. What if in their crazy ideas they had hit on something, they just had the wrong species. Bear bile does nothing, shifter bile, now that is a completely different thing. Its effects on the right type of