not a theoretical physicist, Henson.” Jacinda said in a joking tone. “What do you think is making it take longer?”
The things running through my mind about you , Henson thought as he took a drag off his cigarette before he spoke out loud. He didn’t want to tell her about the running low to the ground flashback, not sure how she would take it. “I don’t know, doesn’t time seem to take forever to you sometimes?”
“Yeah, usually when I’m bored.” Jacinda replied, tilting her head to the side. “Are you bored?”
“No, I just really don’t want to be here.” Henson replied honestly. “I wanna go back out for a jog.”
“Newfound love for jogging, eh?” Jacinda asked as she sat back in her chair and looked out the window. “It is a nice day out, but I’m not into jogging.”
“The adrenaline rush was fun though.” Henson said without hesitation before he chuckled, “Plus, it’s healthy.”
“Quitting smoking would be healthier.” Jacinda suggested with a half-smile half-serious look on her face.
“Yeah, and then I could win the lotto.” Henson replied sarcastically with a grin on his face. “How much longer is this damn session? You didn’t answer last time.”
“We only have a few more minutes left. Anything you want to talk about?” Jacinda asked.
"Were you always a counselor," he asked, not sure why it popped into his mind.
"No, actually I was a nun when I was younger. I left the convent and went to finish my degree and that led me to being a counselor. I guess you could say, this is what I was meant to do." She replied, looking through the window.
"I'd have never pegged you for a nun, Ms. Liberty," Henson said as he looked at the stunning features of her. How could anyone look like that and be a nun?
"There's a lot of things people never thought they'd end up being, don't you agree Henson?" She asked, seeing him nod. “Alright, well I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Chapter Four
After his session with Jacinda, Henson decided to go try and find any more traces of the wolf shifters in the town and casually just walked around, trying to be as nonchalant about his searching as possible. He knew they could be anywhere around there and didn’t want to take the chance of scaring them off, or worse, provoking an attack. Wolf shifters never roamed alone; they were part wolf so it was completely natural for them to travel in packs.
Henson kept an eye out, casually walking around the entrance area to the city but didn’t find anything. He sighed and lit up a cigarette, even as Jacinda’s words about quitting smoking being healthier than jogging ran through his head. He sparked the cigarette up and walked out of town, looking for any more fur around the gates. He wasn’t sure if the wolf shifters were actually covering their tracks or not but hadn’t really ever known them to do that. He knew that things could get extremely dangerous if a wolf shifter was loose in town. People wouldn’t really be able to catch them since they could attack as a wolf, run off and shape shift into their human forms with nobody being the wiser.
Henson kept looking for signs of the wolf shifters even as it started to get dark. He didn’t really care too much, he was right next to the city anyway where various smells come from and to the wolves he would just appear like a normal person wandering outside the town. Just as Henson decided to head back into town he noticed the tall grass rustling in the distance by the nearby
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