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ed Fiona Moonstone
ack house corridors like smo
tled heavy as stones in the c
hadow, her second name, t
d where shifting
s she walked through the h
ung over one shoulder, paint
ra
the deep red of her hair-
rom her mother's line. Once,
felt like a beacon advertising
o say. All that fire in her h
looking down only invited mo
mothers who pulled their chi
were already a ghost, the g
e pack under full moons whil
ought fiercely, as she did a
it in her mind like a secon
ge of her consciousness. So
uld almost see it-silver fu
t burned with a
when she tried to call it f
g gap between what she wa
over the pack lands, pain
s crunched on the gravel pat
st and the river beyond. Sh
banner, desperate to put dis
weight of th
a! Wa
then turned. Ennis jogged tow
lways been golden in temper
s caught the light as he ran,
lure, his only en
y one of the pack's best warr
de. His wolf was strong and s
enth birthday without hes
d?" he asked, falling
t elaborate. She never
"Dad's looking for you. The
mention of Kieran. Their fa
ngest packs in the region
el, never cruel, but there w
thing that might have been
uldn't tell w
aid. "I'll be b
stand at the back, neither
ning of carefully neutral exp
all the things that requir
y. When she met his eyes-t
een-she saw the concern ther
an't keep running
words came out sharper tha
ere's a d
ace, and she wondered what h
him through the woods and
her eighteenth birthday, whe
never
but softened her voice. "I
ea
rough his red hair-a gesture
have been reports of rogue
where near the
eezed her shoulder once, the
tride confid
, then turned and pl
old friends. Here, beneath t
follow. Here, sh
ar path without conscious
fallen logs, deeper into the
rough in go
pressing against the invisib
r own-the desire to run on fou
d of boots, to be whole in a
r eighteent
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