Awakening

to drift aimlessly through the world? A worthless no one, almost invisible to other people. Noth

hat's kind o

port, no family, and definitely no friends. I'm a late bloomer, I guess. Not that it's unusual in my bloodline, as almost every female in my family didn't 'come out' until they hit their l

the years we've bunked together I can't say we have ever become friends of any kind. She makes it clear she doesn't like me

me in anyway. I guess because she's from a leg of the Santo pack and they have hated the Whyte pack since long before the war.

n leave us to live as outcasts among our own people, our own kind. Shunned because we are the shameful proof that their own packs failed them. I don't think they knew what else to do with us. So many young with no

kind of a big deal and we are kind of not. We're a bit like the lost boys in Neve

get a mate. I have no delusions that it means anything of the sort for any of us turning tonight. Of which there are four from the home of unwanteds, and I

under the first full moon of your birth month. It's not hard to figure out when you're ready. The weeks running up to your birthday, you start to change

aggression. Little moments where you start to transform painfully and then it dissipates just as quickly so you never really reach a first transition,

t my parents never mentioned any of this when I was young. So, being eighteen, puts me way down on the pecking order and just confirms my bloodline were not that of warriors or strong enough to be anything of importa

ine turned before the age of ten. Colton, the next heir as Alpha, is nineteen years old, lords o

bilities in battle. He's destined to take over from his father as Alpha one day and the way things are heading, he won't just be Alph

yone below his station. That's how it works here, dominance and strength is everything to wolves. He has his father's arrogance and he knows every female hitting

rgest among us. I think the one time he actually acknowledged my existence was the day he pushed me out of his way in passing. I tripped in front of him in the corridor to the great hall, and he didn't bat an eye or mis

people. He was ahead of me by one year, so we didn't really cross paths in all that time, and since he lives with his pack on the south side of the mount

ft again. His father is the unofficial Dominant Alpha and likes to check in with all on the mountain when he sees fit. Since Colton graduated school, we

ave been out there for almost ten years, recovering from it and licking their wounds. It's been quiet for so long, eerily so, but there is so much unease and unrest in the air that the packs called together a meeting a month back to decide the fate of our future. Trouble st

. Many of our kin never returned and those who did, were forever changed. Those like me who lost everyone; my parents, grandparents, uncles, and my brother... we are shunned by people who like to pretend it never happened. My family were lo

e home. The

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