See You Later

[Hyacinth]

"Cindy, are you sure," Slate looks concerned. Very concerned. "What makes you think it is insanity and not something else?"

"Well I have been under a lot of stress lately," I start to ramble, "and some of the things I'm hearing and seeing and remembering make no sense. My best explanation is that none of it is real, except in my mind."

He looks at me as he quietly holds my hand, his thumb brushing my knuckles absently. "But what if it is something else, something incredible, something a lot better than going insane," he takes a moment to bring his hand to his nose and take a deep sniff. "What if you are finally getting your wolf?"

I try to think back to when Bash started manifesting his wolf. Did the voice come first, or were there other signs?

"When you talk to your wolf, does it respond?" I ask, "Because this voice never does. It's more like a blurt here and a blurt there, more like the things I don't want to say out loud than a separate personality."

"Sage doesn't