Page 84 of Monster's Baby

“They’re containment bubbles,”the guard said incredulously.“No power goes in, no power comes out.”

“Well, that’s a big help.”I sighed.“I can’t feel for Aiden’s energy, I can barely remember what happened...How am I supposed to figure out which one is which?”

Professor Reynolds returned from his walk around the foyer.All the fires were out and he seemed much happier.“Wouldn’t it be nice if you were a witch who could re-watch your memories?Too bad you aren’t.”

I chuckled.“Point taken.Do I have the time?”I asked the guard.

“I’m being paid.Take all the time you need.”

I took a deep breath.“I don’t want to make a mistake.I’m going to do this properly.”I hesitated.“Are yousureyou can’t release one of them so I can watchhismemories instead?”

The guard shook his head.“One of the things that makes this shapeshifter so dangerous is that if he shifts into a person, hebecomesthat person, right down to their memories.”

I blanched.“So he would have the memories of this fight from both his own and Aiden’s perspectives?”

“Precisely.”

“How do you stop him from shifting into people?”

“His cuffs are power dampening.”

“But we saw him, back before school started.He shifted to look like his guard.”

“Entirely?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.”

“Did he do an entire shift, down to the freckles on the skin?”

I shrugged.“I don’t think so.I think it was just the face.”

“The cuffs prevent a full shift.He has to perform a full shift in order to get the memories, too.”

“How does he learn so much about a person in order to get the full shift?”I asked anxiously.“That seems like a lot.”

“He has to get to know the person very well indeed.”

“But...”I frowned.“Are you sure he’s fully shifted into Aiden?There’s no way he could know everything about him!”

“He must be.He’s casting demon shifter spells.Look at him.He wouldn’t be able to maintain that form if he hadn’t managed a full shift.”The guard gestured at the bubbles.

So he would have two cocks then.

I flushed.“Hang on,allhis memories?”I hissed.

The guard winced.“Yeah.”

“That’s sick.”

“There’s a lot of reasons we locked him up.”

I tried to banish the uncomfortable feeling of the shifter knowing what I looked like when I was intimate with Aiden, with mixed results.

“I need to sit down,” I muttered.

“Allow me,” Professor Reynolds said excitedly.He took a pen from his pocket and transfigured it into a chair.

When I raised my eyebrows at him, he grinned.“I can do magic again, and it’s such a relief!”

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