Half an hour of that got me nowhere.
I'd mentally gone around and around the mulberry bush a dozen times, but the weasel had yet to pop.
And that described the whole course of my research so far, honestly, just on a larger scale. For the past few years, I'd focused on looking for sequences encoding traits that were never found in humans, only in alpha werewolves.
Trying to discover which genes caused, say, accelerated muscle development in all shifters was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Yes, some specific genes definitely played a role. But it was too complicated. Too many contributing factors.
But things like glowing eyes that were specific to alphas…those I should, theoretically, be able to isolate. Given enough time—something I'd had before. A whole lifetime, if necessary.
