Tory Brennan's Virals And Seizure

What if you could hear the fluttering of the wings from an insect, the smell of a hot dog stand from almost a mile away, you see a small caterpillar slowly making it's way across the forest floor; what if you had senses like a wolf? In the novel Virals and Seizures this is happened to Tory Brennan and her three closest friends, Ben, Hiram, Shelton. While saving a wolfdog from malicious experimentation, they were exposed to a new genetically made virus called parvovirus XPB-19. The virus was created by the head scientist at the LIRI lab, Dr. Karsten. This mutated virus altered these friends everyday lives and changed them from a group of friends into a pack. These companions then got unpredictable bursts of flares, this is when they each begin

While Tory is flaring, she reacts to certain situations very differently from how she would have acted if she was human, this coming from the wolf instinct in her, instead of thinking through the problem she faces, she uses her instincts, and this leads to reckless behavior that isn’t her norm. In the act of snooping through Chance Claybourne’s room While snooping through Chance Claybourne’s Tory stumbles upon life threatening information, but this didn’t stop her. Instead of leaving and forgetting what she saw, she came back with all of the Virals and placed all of them in a potentially dangerous positions. Tory knew very little about Chance but what she did know would have been enough for her to recognize that it was an abysmal decision to go back it the house. As a result of this decision, the pack was held at gunpoint and could have died that night, all because Tory didn’t think about what the repercussions might have been. Also, Tory constantly disobeys Kit, her father, throughout both novels. Tory always seems to be grounded or in trouble, and if she's grounded she can't go searching for Anne Bonny’s treasure or look for clues to figure out who the murderer was. Therefore, Tory continuously sneaks out of house, this having the possibility to damage the little father daughter relationship that they have. Tory could have lost all the respect and trust that Kit had in her, but she thought about was finding Anne Bonny’s treasure, even if her intentions were good, that still doesn't make her decision to deceive her father right. Tory doesn't have a very strong relationship with her father, so toying around with it wouldn’t help her cause. This could have had serious ramifications to their relationship. Lastly, on multiple occasions there were guns fired at the Virals. A normal teenager would have stopped