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Connor

Well, what did I just say to Nate? To believe that I am clairvoyant, or that the governor heard me. I knew it had been too long since my phone rang.

– Hello Governor. How are you?

– Good, but truce of banality. We have a problem.

As usual, he would not call me otherwise. His phone calls are never to announce good news. But his tone makes me nervous and puts my senses on alert. The governor is never worried. Tense, stressed, yes, but never anxious and today I could almost smell his fear through the handset. My friends immediately notice my change in posture, I stiffened, my instincts alert, and immediately take their seriousness, awaiting information about their next mission.

– I'm listening to you.

– There was an assault in a human hospital. A wolf who had been admitted the same morning was killed.

It's rather unusual for an animorph to end up in the hospital, especially a human hospital, but apart from that …

– OK, but I can't do anything for him anymore.

– Obviously, and an investigation is underway to find out the reasons for his pitiful state when he arrived. But you could help a nurse who was at his bedside.

– Of course. Did she know him? What pack is she in?

– To my knowledge, she did not know the victim and she does not belong to any pack. She’s a human and she’s in a coma. She was attacked by the shapeshifters who came to finish off the wolf.

I get up from my seat and start pacing. This story is not trivial.

– I'm sorry ? Usually, clans don't even tire of threatening humans because they are too scared of retaliation to testify against them, so attack them! We've only protected shapeshifters until today. Why do they hurt this human woman?

– This is what you are going to have to find out while protecting her. They ran away and left her for dead only because of the guards arrived  in the room with handguns . They were forced to shoot several times so that the animorphs decided to drop their victim. Vigils who have spotted several shapeshifters on guard  around the human hospital since the assault on Miss Slat a week ago.We think that they want to know if she is alive or if she will succumb to her injuries soon. And they might want to finish the job when they find out that she survived. It is out of the question that a war breaks out between humans and shapeshifters. Humans will not disappear without a fight if the matter gets out.

– Okay. Send me the address. We'll be leaving within an hour.

This is a strange case. She will be the first human to benefit from our protection. Not that it is not important, I respect everyone's life, human or shapeshifter, it is the same for me. Everyone has a place on earth and a role to play. Why would shapeshifters want the death of a nurse? How important is it to want to make sure that she is dead, at the risk of starting a war? It does not mean anything.

– Connor, a problem?

– I don't know, Sean. This mission is unusual. We have to protect a human left for dead by shapeshifters.

– Why would a clan do this?

– This is the hundred thousand dollar question that will have to be answered. The governor fears a war between the two peoples. Which could happen if a pack attacks a human hospital. We may be physically stronger, but we are not invincible. Humans may be afraid and shoot at all of the surrounding animorphs. Sean, I entrust the pack to you. The others, we take off in an hour.

I take my bag in my room without wasting time, turning and returning events in my head without understanding the meaning.The trip to the hospital took us 3 hours by plane plus thirty minutes by car. Have you ever seen wild animals on a plane? It’s like putting a lion in a cage. It's not good. We are not made to fly. So we arrive anxious at the hospital , nervous and a little aggressive. We would need to release the animals to relieve the pressure. Unfortunately, the shapeshifters I see watching without any discretion, confirm to me that the situation is unstable and perilous, so freedom will wait.