I was gatherin
line beyond the academy fence and watched the students move b
, always with the same three people, the tall boy who talked too much, the sharp girl who w
he ate lunch at the same table, spent her free periods near the old oak against the east wall, and laughed diffe
ndow was hers b
t was still infor
e, a girl passing her on the path between buildings, and it
a Moo
ed back through the forest and spent the entire journey reminding myself wha
p as much as i
*
her first shift, my
ays carried. No weakness. Nothing missing. According to everything I had been taught, I should have lost it by now. The legend was specific. Miss
not a
the warning every Alpha before me had carried was not entirely accurate. A story repeated so many times it had s
ognition move across her face through the window, confusion first, then clarity, then the stillness
Her eyes widened slightly
r school. I have one request. I want to enroll at Draven Wolf Academy. My name stays as Ravin. My
"You want to enr
es
At this
s what
to. She was weighing her options and finding, as most people did in a
y word that nothing will threate
owly. "This st
plet
n. "You sta
warning passed between pack elders, not as a face, and I intended to keep it that way. Walking into a school full of wolves who would scatter at the sight o
*
second day, though I had
ly walked into each other. She stepped back and i stepped back. She looked up at me and someth
," she
I said, and
t lasted four minutes and felt longer. She was curious about me the way sharp people were curious about things they could not immediate
d away the same t
pposed to
ded softer than the last. Since I knew her name, since I had heard her laugh, s
d thrown back mid laugh, her friends around her and the th
was born, without asking my permission, in
s the one person I was never supposed to let mys

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