Marked By Moonlight

:Learning

ss the bounda

ff out just enough to remind me to stay put. The Alpha didn't push, either. He stood t

rush what matters,

me lingered, steady and alive. I saw the Alpha watch me retreat before he slowly turned and vanished into the

idn't fe

elt

eeper within. When we reached the village's edge, the familiar sounds returned like voices in the distance, a creaking door,

eep came in bi

but a presence. I jolted awake just before dawn, heart racing and sens

d out of bed and

illage was still asleep. I took a slow br

ing sha

moving near the boundary...calm and watchful. My heart slowed as someth

listen

, spinni

y, looking thoughtful instead of a

e... the world is l

. "Not the wild kind that sca

the village's edge. The closer we got to the fo

nued. "It was made for balance. When your power wake

y looked the same, but they fel

I don't learn?"

takes over without direction," he finally sai

drifted from

a gr

gnit

ndary again, half-hidden in the mis

you choose," Corvin said.

t pounding. "I don't

s if he understood my words

in reassured me. "Not

raid. The forest hummed quietly, steady and patie

es, the Alpha dippe

rov

ep inside me then...

iden

ng into someth

ning how t

est would be watching....not