I leaned back against the cold stone wall, letting my head rest for a moment as I studied him, now far more stable and cleaner than when he had collapsed into the cell. I had seen him in his previous panther hybrid body and now seeing him as a man was a little weird but we had expected something like this before coming here.
"So what happened after you got here?" I asked, turning my head slightly toward him. "I mean… the beginning. How did all this even start for you?"
Knight let out a slow breath, shifting his posture as he settled more comfortably against the wall, his gaze drifting somewhere distant as he began to recall it.
"When I woke up," he said, "I was already half-dead. The body I took over had a massive wound across the torso, deep enough that I could feel the damage before I even understood where I was. They had thrown me into what I think was their version of a morgue… just left there to die."
