Seren
I'd known that training was necessary, of course. And let's be honest, having some knowledge of these new powers yesterday would have meant that I could have defended myself and not had to rely on Mom and the guards. I just hadn't realized she'd want to start the process so quickly.
Mom didn’t give me time to overthink it. She led me from the library, past sunlit corridors that felt too bright after a night spent among ghosts and secrets, and out into a secluded courtyard hidden behind the eastern wing of the pack house. Stone walls rose high around us, etched with sigils worn smooth by time and weather. The air here felt…different. Thicker. Charged, like the moment before lightning splits the sky.
“Aidan brought me here last night. He thought this would be a good place to begin,
