>>2259398I would not have dared to make it all the way to the dining area if not by the shortcut through the forest. It was just so unnerving to go around naked when it wasn’t even dark. Melanie also kind of got in the way since out of consideration for her I couldn’t travel by jumping from three to three.
Melanie was very interested in me, she asked me all sorts of questions during the way and most of them were not even about me being the werecat. She just wanted to know about me. I asked some questions in turn, but mostly out of politeness rather than interest, not actually listening to the answers of the short brunette – counting the ears, which definitely counted, I was taller than her.
“No bullshit then, you’re… really eighteen? For real, eighteen?” Melanie kept beating that freaking dead horse. Next people who asked me was getting scratched. Except Erika, she had a pass.
“Yes! For real eighteen! I was born in nineteen ninety-eight!” I growled, not bothering to hide she was starting to annoy me. “Oh, we made it.”
The cafeteria was heavily populated. It looked like thirty people were in there; I thought that because it was at least eleven in the morning we would find it emptier but no such luck. Everyone was having breakfast late.
