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Chapter 51

At the end of the day, shifting was shifting, and a ring could be forced to work for someone other than its owner.

Anderson watched, wincing inwardly in sympathy, as Stern began to change. One of the side effects of using someone else's ring was that the pain-markers were off. But Stern, the son of a bitch, didn't make a sound, just silently endured as the light covered him.

Stern shook himself as it faded, and that was way more of his boss than Anderson had ever wanted to see, but at least it wasn't a bad view. Anderson stamped one hoof, shook his head.

"Shut up," Stern replied, smiling briefly even though Anderson could see from the set of his shoulders and the tightness around his eyes that he was still shaking off the shifting pain. Stern knelt beside Jones and the other guy, rifled through their clothes, and pulled off Jones's ring. "You want to try? He's a minotaur, so at least it's in the same church, if drastically different pews."