Chapter 29

“We need to go back in,” Mr. Woodard said.

“With all this blood, they’re not going to be in their right state

of mind.”

“How do they know what to do?” I asked Mr.

Woodard.

“Derek knows that they have to eat all of

the remaining sharks. He’ll carry that knowledge with him long

enough to swim toward them, and Wyn will follow him. It’s hard to

say how much of a shifter’s human mind stays with him when he

changes, but it should last long enough for Derek and Wyn to get to

the other sharks. Once they’re there, the blood will drive them to

finish things off. But we should get out of the water. It’s not

really safe for us here. They would never deliberately hurt us, but

sharks with blood are not always as in control as they would like

to be.”

We walked to the shore and Mr. Woodard

handed me my towel back. I patted myself with it a little and then

handed it back to him. He was wet too, and I was too mesmerized to