Yvaine
“Happy Birthday to Yvaine and Damon. Happy birthday to you,” My family sings to my twin and me.
“Blow out the candles,” Mom cheers.
“I want to blow out the candles,” My younger brother Soren whines.
“It's not your birthday, Soren,” Dad tells him.
“You can help me,” I say to him. The three of us blow out the candles to cheers from our family. It's my and Damon’s thirteenth birthday. I look around at my cousins and siblings. We have such a large family. But I feel a strange tug away from them.
My wolf Avalon has been acting strange all day. Dad tells me that I won’t shift till I am sixteen, but it feels like she wants to shift already.
“What’s wrong, Yvaine?” My cousin Maya asks me. She is my Uncle Lincoln’s half-mermaid daughter.
“My head feels funny,” I respond.
“Do you
