Love By Feral Wolves

n't move

that seeped beneath my skin. No heaving, no rustling of leaves, no threatening rum

on my fra

as

I couldn't do those things. My feet stuck to the forest floor, as if the gr

f them cam

e moonlight on a river. It did not stride out of fury

pounded i

ed me like twin blades of light, and I forgot the rest of the world. The

it tilted

were wo

t were

when I

way. The world careened on its side, shadows on the edge of my field of vision. The last I saw before the

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e, the worl

or den. The earth under my feet was spongy and slightly scented with fur and damp. I was clad in something thick and w

rmured softly

budge,

idn't

he fai

provement o

she felt i

at me as if

doesn't get

guttural growls or inhuman snarls. Th

quickly. Th

bling s

od. Human-part human. All bare feet, dressed in raw material an

haired one

yn

d not yet spoken it. It came to me

His voice was low, smooth, bu

t say a

fainted. We didn't m

did," I w

with hair so pale it was translucent. Her violet eyes

weren't afraid," she said quietly. "B

he younger ones, with gold-colored hai

when she saw R

horne," Ray

and skin like burnished bronze, and a shadowy figure lin

e. "You're not. you'

man. "We're more.

ed, thrumming t

"You felt it, didn't you? The call. Th

lowly. "Wh

rld tried to forget. What it fears. What it still needs. We are t

memory I couldn't quite hold on to. A dre

e?" I

iled gently. "Because you came. Because y

outside, thr

mark on my

-

his whole Moonheart business is usually just general prophec

st, covering the glistening mark as if it

a summer breeze. "It signifies the woods are recognizing yo

And now, we have to find out how mu

ill half in shadow, but when he spoke, his voice was deep and rich like black water. "The others will dance around

er me like a pall

bling legs, bristling. "That I'm an entirely differe

n you put it like that, it

ief to make this true. The mark speaks. Your presence here i

'd experienced-the buzzing, the intensifying dreams, the way the woods seem

p of the glowing mark. The ligh

ered. "Even if you don't know

but peaceful. Seraphine, warm and understanding. The silent one, fire in his eye

within m

er just lost

powerful, ancient, and watching m

hisper in the back of my

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