The time distortions hit without warning. Aria was in the healing house one moment, the next she was standing in the garden three hours earlier. Around her, pack members flickered in and out of existence as time became unstable. "Everyone stay calm!" Dante's voice echoed strangely, reaching her from both the present and the past simultaneously. "Time fractures are temporary. Don't panic." But panic was spreading. Wolves experienced their own pasts and futures overlapping. A warrior saw himself as both a pup and an elder. Elena witnessed her own death and birth in the same moment. The psychological impact was devastating. Luna appeared beside Aria, her small hand slipping into her mother's. Except Luna wasn't small. She was two different sizes at once, four years old and seven years old,

