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Chapter 20
Devon and I were finally able to find a time in our schedules to run on Saturday morning. We’d talked about going for a run together, only with a twist, for a week or more but since we didn't want to go in the evenings, we just had to wait till we both had a morning off. The twist was that he would run as he normally does, on two legs, and I would run as a wolf. This meant we had to go rural to run, but we had that handled. Devon liked to run up hill, at least sometimes, a left over from his military days. So we decided to run up the road on Mt. Graham. Well, he would run up the road and I would mostly run beside him, but if we encountered a vehicle I could easily take off into the trees and avoid being seen.
Saturday morning we climbed into his old pick up and headed up to the mountain. We stopped at the first picnic area we encountered on the way up and parked the truck. He got out his side and started stretching, working on loosening his muscles so that he wouldn't pull anything. I got out my side, which luckily was on the far side from the road, and started to strip; I folded my clothes neatly and set them into the bag I had brought for them. I didn’t want someone to pull up and see a pile of clothes on the seat of the truck; that would have raised some questions. Once I had all my clothes off I put the bag in the floorboard before closing the door and bending to shift. It only took moment to feel the tingling that told me I was shifting and in another minute or two it had passed.
In wolf form I walked around to the driver’s side of the truck and looked up at Devon. I wondered briefly it would work before projecting *You ready?*
"Sure, let's get started." He said, walking out to the side of the highway that stretched up the mountain and curved not far ahead. He started at a light jog and I easily padded along beside him, as he sped up some and I had to move up into a trot to keep up with him.
*You call this a workout?* I taunted, easily keeping up with his pace.
"It will be when we keep it up for five miles... or more."