Chapter 10 - Gaining Control, Part 3

Alone, I looked around the cave, then lay my broad head onto my paws. I was a bit tired after our run, but I felt good. My muscles felt stretched and relaxed. What was it that Dakota said? The key to shifting? He told me last night that I had to calm myself and think a happy thought to phase back. While he was gone, I decided to try it myself. Let's see... happy thoughts... my family... happy, but not enough to do the trick. Michelle... that wouldn't work, she always made me laugh. Dakota... now that was a happy thought. I closed my eyes as a vision of the first time I saw him in class came to mind... his russet skin... gorgeous warm brown eyes... shiny long onyx hair. Then as I breathed deeply, thinking my happy thought, I felt my body quiver and waver, my vision shifting as my body pulled itself back together, morphing until I was in my human form.