The pit | I fell in the pit

Just as he was about to answer, his eyes suddenly blazed gold. "N-n-n--nNN-NN He tried, but already his teeth were elongating into fangs and a wickedly hungry snarl was bleeding across his face. His cheeks contorted and sprouted whiskers as the hands on his legs turned into claws that dug grooves that quickly filled with red across his knees. "I---..--" He tried, fighting against the tongue that was far too large for his mouth. With a snarl that was half man and half feline, Remi bit down hard on his own lips which caused them to shrink as the lion retreated from the pain. "--can't control myself." He managed at last, gasping and wiping the blood away from his lip with the back of his arm. With a laboured breath, Remi exhaled loudly and leaned his head back against the muddy wall of the pit. "My mother. She was in the woods and.." Closing his eyes as fresh and salty tears stung the back of his eyes, Remi raised dirty and bloody hands to harshly grind against his eye sockets as if that would somehow stop the pins and needles that pricked the back of his skull at the mere thought. "She called to me and...an-d..." He tried again, but the words died in the back of his throat which suddenly felt closed and very scratchy. remi roar