Chapter  359

ZADE "They weren't government agents," Silvia said. "They were just regular criminals. But we didn't know that at the time." "What happened?" Lyn asked, clearly invested in this story despite himself. "We fought back," Samuel said. "Or tried to. I distinctly remember punching one of them and then getting very confused about whether he was real or a hallucination." "And I tried to shift," Silvia added. "But I was too high to complete the transformation, so I just sort of... partially shifted and stayed that way. Half--wolf, half--human, completely useless." "They started shooting at us," Samuel continued. "Which is when things got really chaotic. Because we panicked and Ollie somehow ended up in the driver's seat." "How did a three--year--old end up in the driver's seat?" I demanded. "We still don't know," Silvia admitted. "One minute he was in the back, the next he was somehow at the wheel. We might have put him there. We honestly can't remember." "And then we were shouting at him to d