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but
before my words had even died in the air I was standing only a few
feet away from some kind of wolf-man monster who looked like he was
about to rip my head off.
    "How
did you get here? How did you find me?"
    I
opened my mouth to respond, but he grabbed me by the throat and
slammed me into a steel girder so hard that I saw stars.
    The
sheer terror I was feeling was messing with my senses. I was trying
to talk around the panic surging up from my gut, but all I could
think about was the way that it felt like a prickly wind was pushing
me back against the structural member at the same time that his hand
pinned me against it.
    We
stood there staring at each other for what felt like an eternity and
then suddenly the entire building rang like a gong. Still holding me
several feet off of the ground, the monster walked back over to the
edge of the building and looked down. I was just able to see the man
we'd been watching—at least I assumed it was the man we'd been
watching.
    He'd
transformed into a beast that was almost a mirror image of the one
that had me by the throat and seemed to be climbing up the outside of
the building. It was hard to be sure, he still seemed to only be a
few feet below us, but now the ground looked to be quite a ways below
him.
    "You
can't be him, not if he's coming after us, but you're inarguably here
so I guess I'm not as unique as I always thought." My captor
looked back down at the beast that was climbing towards us and shook
his head. "I don't know who you are, but this is the only
warning I'll provide. You need to stay away from me. I'll let you go
this time. Go ahead and jump out. I'm not holding you here now."
    It
was like he was a raving lunatic. Nothing he was saying made any
sense. How could I possibly jump anywhere when he was still holding
me by the throat? The sheer ludicrous nature of what I was
experiencing finally got to me. I opened my mouth as he relaxed his
grip slightly and instead of a scream of terror, laughter bubbled out
of me.
    Seriously,
a talking wolf-man was holding me by the throat and telling me to
jump. My subconscious had gone ape-crap crazy this time.
    "I
will not be mocked."
    The
words wouldn't have caused me to even bat an eye, but his fist
tightened around my throat to the point where his claws started to
dig into the back of my neck. The glee washed out of me, instantly
replaced with the terror that the situation called for.
    "I
just wanted to know who he was."
    It
came out barely more than a whisper, but he didn't seem to have any
problems hearing me.
    "Trust
me, you'll be much better off if you never see Kaleb again in your
entire life."
    The
crash of splintering glass as Kaleb climbed up the outside of the
building was getting closer. My captor closed his eyes for the
briefest of seconds and then sighed.
    "I
wish we had more time to talk. If you're what I think you are, then
you need some guidance, but we simply don't have time. I'm going to
be hard-pressed to get out myself now. We've burned up too much time
talking while Kaleb has approached."
    I
opened my mouth, not because I had a question to ask him, but because
it seemed like the situation called for a whole host of questions. He
shook his head at me.
    "There's
no time. Just remember that this place isn't safe. You'd be far
better off if you simply stayed away. Think of home, of those you
love."
    Before
I could even process what he'd just said he pivoted with a strength
that exceeded even what I would have expected out of such a massive
body and threw me towards a nearby wall.
    I'd
been on rollercoasters that created less g-forces than what he
generated. Time slowed to a crawl as I flipped end over end towards a
pair of steel girders. I started to black out, my vision narrowed
down to a tiny tunnel, but his last words were echoing in my head. If
I was going to die then it was only right that my last thoughts be of
my dad, my mom, and Cindi.
    I
hit the massive beams with enough force to shatter every bone in