Eve.
"Wait, hold on. Back up a second here. What happened?"
Isaac watched as I paced up and the down the conference room, his silver eyes steady and calm. "Apparently, this young woman caused a massive earthquake."
"An earthquake?" I repeated, struggling to wrap my head around this. "Like a real earthquake? With the ground shaking and buildings falling over and bridges collapsing and..."
"Yes, Evelyn, that's generally considered the definition of an earthquake."
"And she was in wolf form when this happened?"
"That's what the witnesses are saying."
"But... but how is that possible? I mean, is this girl gifted or something?"
"Maybe. That would be the most reasonable explanation. Only..."
"Only what?"
"Only I've never heard of a shifter with this type of ability before."
The phone rang. I growled under my breath and grabbed the receiver. "What?"
"Hello, Miss O'Connor? This is Corporal Williams with the U.S military. We talked earlier, but I think I caught you a little in-disposed. If you don't mind, I'd really like to speak with you about-"
I slammed the phone down. The Wildcat—the often angry, volatile creature that lurked inside of me—snarled with irritation.
I turned back to Isaac. "So, do we have a plan, here?"
"We'll have to train her," Isaac said. "Get an idea of her abilities.
I thought about my own powers. How, in the early days, I had struggled endlessly with control. Until I had learned to keep the wildcat in check, I had been a walking disaster area, and that was without the ability to cause earthquakes. "Do you think it's... safe for her to be around other people?"
Isaac shook his head. "I don't know, Evelyn. Like I said, I've never heard of anything like this before. None of us have. We'll simply have to wait and see what happens."
There was a short pause. The rest of our team stood around the table, listening intently. The fact that no one offered an opinion just reinforced what Isaac was telling me; we were in completely uncharted territory here.
I couldn't believe this. It was all so insane. The media was probably having a field day. This girl would be world-famous before the sun went down.
"So, Eve," Reza said. "What was all that you were saying earlier? Something about "it's only her first shift. How serious could the situation possibly be?"
"Rez," I said. "don't make me break out the spike-covered sledge hammer."
He was right, though. This was about a thousand times worse than I had imagined. No wonder Cyprus had looked so terrified. No wonder she had been so indifferent to my lame attempts at cheering her up.
Really, Eve. The girl caused a natural disaster and there you were, telling her all about the time you broke a window.
Well, at least I had stopped there. At least I hadn't mentioned swallowing a live mouse, or shoving my (former) crush through a wall. Something told me those stories wouldn't have helped any more than the first one.
The phone rang again. A slightly different tone which indicated a video call.
"I'm assuming that's the police," Isaac said,striding across the room to answer