The world tilted beneath me as the moon climbed higher, spilling silver light across the clearing. Every nerve, every pulse hummed with energy I could no longer contain. My wolf clawed at my chest, scratching, straining to break free. I could feel her impatience, her curiosity, her power…and a strange, thrilling fear curling around my spine. Tonight, there would be no half-measures. Tonight, I would shift.
I dropped to my knees, hands digging into the soft earth. The silver threads across my wrist pulsed violently, white-hot against my skin. They wrapped around me, coil after coil, binding me to the energy thrumming through my body, my brothers, the Moonbond, the moon itself. The air was electric. My heart hammered, a wild drumbeat in the stillness.
Talon was at my side, hands hovering,
