a's
ached with a phantom pain, a ghostly memory of the crushing force from the dream. I instinctively touch
ating the familiar posters on my bedroom wall. I was bac
d, Blair Hale, rushed in, her face a
utched in one hand. She must have heard me cry out. For five years, she'd been my
hat had coiled in my spine finally rel
g around me in a familiar, comforting hug. She gentl
of the dream. She pulled away and handed me the glass of water she always k
l this time," I sai
. "The same Alpha? Th
. he changed, Blair. He turned i
scale most of us could barely comprehend. I described the brutal slaughter, the blood,
ng my hair in a soothing rhythm. When I
ed calm. "It's just a dream. You've been away from the pack for t
has created this... this ultimate Alpha figure. He represents everything you're afraid of-being
from home and the instability of a wolf separated from her pack. It made sense. It
whispered, the detail s
reasoned gently. "Of course he k
ment. I fell silent,
d face, her own full of sympath
ulling the curtains wide. Bright morning
"but it can't heal what's wr
ore serious than I had ever seen it. Sh
have to go back.
igid. The air
mouth before I even thought
nds, her grip firm and resolute. "You hav
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