[CNash]

Yes, I'd say so. It's still very stream-of-consciousness, which is good, but now tempered by the presence of other characters, so it's not quite so one-sided as when the story began.

I kept thinking that an alternate title for the story could be "Instinct". The wolves are just running on pure instinct at all times; it's pulling the protagonist and Elaine and Stephen in directions that they don't fully understand. The big problem facing the protagonist is (I feel) that she's letting her new werewolf instincts take over far too readily because her other new reality - being a woman - hasn't quite sunk in. The shopping trip reinforces this; she really doesn't know how to be a woman, and she's being forced to cope with two new natures. Comparatively, Elaine and Stephen have it easy...