Charlotte P Lambert

  
“What did you see on the video?” Mishka asked in a whisper. She could not keep her curiosity to herself. She needed to know even before dinner.  
“We saw Myrtle call the cat into the nursery and then she fed it a live rat. She wasn’t even afraid to hold onto the rat by its tail,” Gillian responded.
***
While Mishka Classens practices her singing in the woods one afternoon she runs into Bruce Cameron, a handsome, famous fashion designer. 
When she confides in her friend, Gillian’s mother about the meeting, Joan tells her that Bruce is an estranged cousin of Joan’s and that he is a werewolf. 
So, Joan wants Mishka to keep Gillian away from Bruce and keep the family secret, but Gillian already has a crush on him.
Bruce wants to be a normal human because his human family does not accept him as a wolf, but he also loves his unusual powers and diverse creativity. 
Eventually he and Mishka confide in each other about their burdens in life and become close with regular meetings in the woods, where they exchange creative ideas about fashion and music. They also plan to do shows together. 
Myrtle, Mishka’s bossy grandmother is an undercover fortune teller. She had a premonition about Mishka being involved with a werewolf one day, so she wants to orchestrate Mishka’s life so that this will never happen. 
She almost has a heart attack when she finds out that Mishka is involved with Bruce. She tries everything in her power to split them apart.
After a series of weird and bad events, Mishka and Bruce find out that Myrtle is causing the problems in their lives and in their relationship. They decide to join forces against her by confusing her spells, making them powerless.



The Siren and the Wolf

The week following the convergence had passed in a blur of activity. Mishka found herself at the center of a growing network of frequency-sensitives—people drawn to the seven convergence points across the city, each experiencing different manifestations of the new reality. 


She stood now at the edge of Riverside Park, watching as Bruce demonstrated to a small group how to perceive the subtle shifts in the membrane. His wolf-enhanced senses made him an ideal teacher for those just beginning to notice the changes. 


"Don't try to see it directly," he was saying, his voice patient. "It's like trying to spot a star at night—look slightly to the side, and it becomes visible in your peripheral vision." 


A young woman gasped as she caught her first glimpse of the shimmering overlay that now existed alongside the physical world. "It's... moving!" 


"Breathing," Bruce corrected with a smile. "The membrane respires in harmony with the collective consciousness around it." 


Resonant Pathways