Page 65 of Witch Undecided

“What is it? What’s happening?”

Halle fell into a defensive stance, shoulders bunching. “Varga.”

I caught a flash of yellow eyes, the curve of a dark shaggy back. Oh shit.

I looked from Halle to the other two women in human form. “Why aren’t you shifting into wolf form?”

And then it hit me. Shifting required miasma, a kind of magic, and the varga nullified magic.

The wolves weren’t shifting because they couldn’t.

They were stuck in human form and we were surrounded by varga.

Fuck.