I remembered how weak she had sounded. As if she had summoned all of her strength to talk to me.
I didn’t know when the tears fell. The realization struck me like lightning.
“My wolf.” I whispered more to myself than to the witch. She kept grinning and grinning even as I fell to my knees. “No… no, no no. Not her. I cannot live without her. She is… she is the other part of me. She owns half of my soul. She—”
The witch stood, dusting her clothes as she got ready to leave. “I’m glad you had it figured out so quickly. If my mission here is done then--”
I grabbed her before she could disappear. On my knees, I clutched her dress tight in my palm, “You have to tell me, you have to tell me how to save her.”
“There is no way to save her. The goddess always gets what she wants. And nobody forc
