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is what they’ll grow into and if they are a threat to mankind.”
    Bess pressed her lips together in disapproval. He didn’t give a fig if the little terrors killed every animal within fifty miles as long as they didn’t kill men.
    â€œDo you care nothing for The Balance—the give and take between species that is as fragile as a butterfly’s wing?”
    He made a face. “I don’t like insects.”
    â€œYet you protect men who are more voracious than grasshoppers in their need to devour the land.”
    â€œSpoken like a true tree-hugger.”
    â€œBetter than cutting them all down to build redwood decks for your Jacuzzis.”
    They faced off in silence now, his jaw ticking and her fists clenched as she fought the soaring urge to fight. She had been so taken with him that she had nearly forgotten that they were born enemies.
    â€œYou’re not going to help me find them?”
    She couldn’t quite disguise her surprise. Had he just requested her help?
    â€œYou asking?”
    He shrugged.
    She turned away.
    â€œWait. I’m asking.”
    â€œHow much of a head start?”
    â€œTwo hours.”
    â€œI’ll take a look. Where shall I meet you?”
    â€œHere. But if you find them, don’t get too close. They may be dangerous.”
    She made a face. “I can handle myself.”
    He gave her a serious look, then opened his mouth as if to say more, and closed it again.
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œNothing.” He glanced back at his crime scene. “I have to call this in.”
    â€œThey think you’re human?”
    He nodded.
    â€œMeet you here, then.” She lifted her arms but he grabbed her hand. The zip of adrenaline shot through her as well as the sensation of anxiety.
    â€œBe careful, okay?”
    She pulled her hand free. “Yes, okay.” Bess rubbed her wrist, but could not quite eliminate the strong feeling of worry and the nearly irresistible need to protect. Had she just read his emotions?
    She did not know what was more disturbing, sensing his feelings or having him worry over her as if she were something more to him than a way to get answers.
    She kept her eye on him.
    He pinned her with an intense gaze. The corner of his mouth quirked and she felt an ache begin deep inside her.
    â€œYou going to watch?” she asked.
    He grinned. “Oh, yeah.”
    â€œNo one ever watched before.”
    His full smile dazzled her.
    â€œFirst time for everything.”
    Yes, this one was dangerous in an entirely different way. Bess backed away. Once clear, she lifted her arms and pushed off the earth, feeling the electric zing of power as she changed to her raven form and burst into the sky. She glanced back to see him staring, slack-jawed, before he disappeared into the forest below. It was surprisingly exhilarating to have someone know what she was, see her other self and not turn in horror. The law prohibited her from ever showing herself to a human unless in mortal danger. But now, this man could see what she was and he had not shown anything but wonder.
    She flew low through the trees, swooping and dodging around the mighty trunks, listening for a disturbance and watching with her sharp eyes. Bess flew in widening circles, seeing nothing for what she gauged to be an hour. She had almost decided to turn back when she spotted the carcass of the freshly killed moose.
    She perched on a limb and stared down. What she saw next made her stomach pitch.
    The animal beside the moose was gray as the ash of a campfire, but its flesh had the pocked appearanceof burned charcoal. There was no fur or feathers. It hopped like a human from one leg to the other and already stood three feet tall. This thing was only two hours old?
    She studied the knobby head and batlike ears. The creature’s eyes were huge, wide and yellow-green with black pinprick pupils.
    The dead moose shook and the other twin crawled from within the empty body