"Of course," Selena mused, "we'll need even more recruits by the next full moon, unless I want a pack of two for some reason."
"You and I could always breed the rest of the pack!" Beck joked, winking at Selena.
Tatiana rolled her eyes. "Ha ha, real fucking hilarious, Beck."
"Tats is kind of my girlfriend now, Beck," Selena explained, blushing. "I think she's willing to share, but I doubt she likes it being flung in her face."
"Oh, sorry," said Beck. "I didn't know. So, anyone in particular you're considering for the pack?"
"Well, I know Jenna McSweeney likes me," said Selena, "so there's her. I also figured Abbie Peterson'd be a natural pick. Her foster home is real shitty, so nothing's holding her back, she's athletic enough for us, and she sorta has a pack of her own in the form of the Stokerville Cheetahs. With any luck, she could bring in up to twelve more girls, but even an extra one or two would be fantastic. That's all we've got for now. Can you think of anyone who seems like a good fit?"
Beck considered it. "Hmm... who'd like to be a werehyena...? Hey, there's the new girl, Harper Browning? I've been talking with her a bit, and she seems to be pretty big into the furry fandom. Wanna hear the best part?"
"What?" Selena and Tatiana asked in unison.
Beck looked ready to burst with glee. "Her fursona's a hyena! Really, she's showed me sketches and doodles of her fursona, and it's an anthro hyena girl. I even thought I caught a bulge in the pants."
"She sounds like a shoe-in," Selena agreed. "Anyone else?"
Beck thought about it again, an idea suddenly coming to them. "Okay, this is gonna sound incredibly weird, but... I really think you should ask Stella Bentley."
Selena and Tatiana both stared at Beck blankly. "Stella?!" Selena choked out at last. "Stella Bentley? FUCKING STELLA?!!"
Stella Benley was the tyrant queen of Stokerville High. The daughter of a retail chain tycoon and his lawyer/politician wife, Stella was an expert at leveraging her wealth, beauty, and the manipulation skills she'd picked up from her mother into absolute power for her to abuse. Every boy had fucked her, and every girl feared her. When she walked down the hallway (always flanked by her minions Ashlee Kline and Zoey Guthrie), all fled before the Queen of Bitches.
Beck looked at Selena seriously. "I know something about her you don't. Last year she got really drunk at prom and made out with me in a broom closet. Once she sobered up, she started telling me things about herself. I guess she just needed to let it all out, even to an almost stranger. She's actually a closeted non-binary. Don't let the long hair and girly clothes fool you. That's only a front to please her 'respectable' parents. She told me how she'd like nothing more than to cut her hair short and shave a fade like mine into it. Even sleeping with all those boys was an act; she's fucking TERRIFIED of her parents finding out she's a lesbian. As for her penis envy, that's off the charts."
"Wow," said Selena. "I really never knew. I'll have to talk to her soon, get to know the real her... them... err... what are Stella's preferred pronouns, Beck?"
"She's still trying to figure that out," said Beck. "She's still accepting 'she' for now, especially considering she's not ready to come out to the school in general like I did."
Selena laughed, both of hir pairs of hyena tits bouncing as she did. "It'll be 'shi' before long! Anyone else?"
Beck blushed. "Well... I mean, there is this girl I like. Brianna Dixon. You've seen her: African-American, tall, skinny, 'fro bigger than her head, huge smile full of pearly white teeth, floral-print maxi-skirt. I actually have no clue if she'd be into this, but I really wanna involve her in my new world."
"Gotcha!" said Selena. "What about you, Tats? Any potential werehyenas we're missing?"
Tatiana pondered. "Let's see, who'd be good...? Say, what about the stoner chick who sometimes comes out here to smoke her bong?"
"Marley Roberts?" Selena offered.
"Yeah," said Tatiana, "that's her name. She seems to like nature, and I doubt we'd scare her too much with our revelations with her weed mellowing her out."
"I guess there could be something to that," said Selena. "Well, we'd better head back before class restarts without us. We'll try to talk to at least one more person as soon as it ends." The werehyena quickly shifted back to human form and hastily threw her clothes back over her naked body. The three teens then sprinted off and back to school.
Selena barely head a word of her last class of the day. Her mind was firmly on her budding werehyena pack as her Chemistry teacher's lecture dragged on. As soon as the bell rang, she found Tatiana and Beck in the exiting crowd and met up with them. The three scanned the crowd, looking for one of their potential recruits. After some frustrating searching, their eyes landed on...