Push Her Away

Your body tenses as you feel a stabbing pain where your neck meets your shoulder. Fire lances out through your veins, and your heart starts to pound in your ears. Your previously questing hands flail for a moment before finding purchase on her arms, strength flowing into them. You curl your lip and let out a sound almost like a growl before shoving Lilith away from you.

She's grinning, her mouth spattered with blood, your blood at that. Her teeth are far too sharp, her canines pushing forth as you watch into inch-long fangs. Her lips look bruised until you see that they're steadily darkening. The sclera of her eyes have gone dark too, leaving her pale blue irises stark as her retinas reflect the light. There's movement at the sides of her head, and soon her ears stretch to fleshy points, poking puckishly from her unruly white mane.

"What the hell?" You snarl at her.

"It's like I said, babe." She laughs, licking blood from her lips. "Always room for more in the pack."

The pack. The word resonates strangely to you. Lilith really is a werewolf, and she's trying to turn you into one.

"You're... you're crazy!"

"No, I'm wild," she snorts, rolling her neck as her shoulders pop, spreading wider. You can see a frosting of white hairs starting to spread along her arms, haloed in the light.

You're running on adrenaline right now, but that can't last. You try to keep distance between you, skirting around the changing woman.

"What's the rush?" She asks with a feral smirk, her gaze lurching upward as her frame stretches and strains against her clothes. "You've got a taste of it now, and I can smell you want me."

"I... I need to think!" It feels lame as you blurt it out, but you've managed to circle around to the entrance to the exhibit. Stumbling backwards, you cross the threshold into the highway.

Lilith looks confused for a moment, still changing as she sniffs the air around her, pale brows furrowed.

"...where'd you go, Red?" She looks around. It's as if she can't see you. "Ah hell, scared another one off," she mutters. "She'll be back."

As strange as all this is, part of you does want to go back, to step back into the room and see where this goes. Still, she looked like an ordinary performer before. Now, stalking around the 'cabin' she seems to have a serious blind spot beyond the exhibit. You're... safe?

Safe or not, the throbbing in your shoulder reminds you that she did bite you. Walking down the hallway your eyes alight on a safety station. Something weird might be happening here, but the place still got renovated pretty professionally, so there's a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit bolted to the wall. Hurrying over, you open the kit and unwrap an **** wipe. You wince as you clean out your wound, but after the blood is wiped away it looks pretty shallow. Then again, if Lilith can't leave her exhibit, maybe whatever she tried to do to you can't either. Regardless, you find a bandage of the right size and stick it on before zipping your hoodie up again.

Your adrenaline is fading, but your mind is still racing. Should you try to find Jenny and Allegra? Would they even believe you? You did want to find your brother earlier. Maybe Keith knows what's going on?