Even in the wolf's body, it takes longer than you'd like to make it back to town, especially since you start keeping to alleys and shadows once you're back in the suburbs. It's well past midnight by the time you see your house looming in the darkness. The porchlight is on, and a low light is burning in one of the windows. One or both of your parents must be waiting up for you.
You nose around at ground level for a bit, looking for a way in, but the only obvious entrance is an open window high up on the second floor. (It's your own, which seems fortuitous.) You lay on your belly and concentrate on exiting the wolf's body. You feel something rise in the back of your throat, and then the world goes completely black. When you see light again, you are puddled next to the prone body of the wolf. You watch it closely after scuttling under a rose bush: after a few minutes, it raises its head and staggers groggily to its feet. A whine slips through its nose, and it slinks away.
The world looks very big from your new vantage point. Cautiously you stretch up and touch the side of the house. The wall is rough, and you find you have little difficulty gripping it and slithering up to the window. Your room is dark, but you have no trouble oozing over to and under the closed door and into the hallway beyond.
Light spills up the stairway from the ground floor, and you creep along the baseboards until you can see down into the living room, where your mother is curled up on the couch. Even asleep, her face is creased with lines of worry.
The rest of the family must be in bed, except for your older sister, Mary, who is away on a road trip with some of her college friends. Your dad probably went to bed angry; your younger sister, Joanna, is probably completely oblivious to your absence.
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