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"Oh, my..." Simon trailed off in awe and reverence, as he reached into his pocket and withdrew the shining Ring.

Immediately, it's light formed an arrow and pointed at the direction of the hospital building. But it wasn't pointing at the room where The Successful and her family is, instead it was pointing at a different direction. The hospital lobby.

"Is everything alright, doc?" Another male voice asked to his ears.

"Yes. Yes, everything is alright." He replied reluctantly. The hospital lobby?

"Okay, doc."

"Tighten your guards. There are changelings in the hospital lobby."

"Changelings?" The man replied in surprise. "Here? What are they doing here?"

"I have no idea, but the Ring says they are here. I don't know how many they are but we gotta lure them out first and kill them, before going in for the Successful."

"What if it's a werewolf changeling?"

"Capture him, of course, for our experiments. If it's not, we kill them."

"Copy that."

Alpha Alphose felt a prickle down his spine. It isn't the first time, or the second time. He came out from the shadow he'd blended to again, and scouted the lobby again.

Nurses walked in and out of the hospital rooms. A patient in wheelchair was being wheeled out of the lobby. A child crying while getting an injection. Doctors running around.

Just nothing out of the ordinary.

Alphose turned to walk back to the shadows again, when a presence entered through the door and his cougar steered awake.

A beautiful young woman with hair so black, it's shiny. Her hair had him entranced for a full minute, the way it laid behind her back well past her shoulders to stop in the middle of her back.

She wasn't slim, but he would not call her fat either. She just filled out in the right places, mouth-watering curves in that simple blue gown. And his mouth did water. He swallowed audibly.

Their eyes met.

The woman's eyes widened dramatically, but that was all he saw before he turned and walked back to become one with the shadows again.

Who is she? He was curious.

Does she know him? The way her eyes widened at the sight of him could make him think that, but that'll be impossible. His home is in Naturiah, he barely comes out to the human world unless he was sent on a mission here.

Even his mountain lion is entranced by the woman, it growled inside him.

Man and beast watched the beautiful lady, quietly. She stood for a moment, looking around as if in search of him. When she couldn't find him, she blinked twice, clearly baffled.

Suddenly, it seams like she came to her senses about the reason why she was in the hospital in the first place, because she turned and started out in a hurry towards the right door.

After she left, he still watched the door she past through. Then, his back prickled again and the cougar gnawed its teeth.

That feeling of something not being right filled him again. It took his mind away from the mysterious woman.

It is unlikely that Wolf Hunters would already get the wind that a changeling is here, since it's barely an hour since he arrived here with Ismena. But with these useless human hunters, you can never be so sure.

This time around, when he stepped out of the shadows, he walked out of the hospital to scout the area.

"She's awake, she's awake...!" Amelia gasped when she saw her daughter's eyes opening slowly.

Ismena halted her conversation with her father, jerked out of the chair and hurried towards her sister, with her father trailing behind her.