Lyra

I'd built a strange routine around these visits, balancing my need for answers with my studies. I'd do my homework, sitting outside his cell, asking him to give his take on shifter-lore or the correct herbs used to cure an ingestion of wolfsbane.

He'd always been quiet, even back in Wolfsong Academy. Aloof, but not cruel like the rest of the pack members, That was why it was so shocking when he'd blurted out my secret so readily. It was like seeing a different ...