[Zphreya]

At first, I had thought that there was no way that this entire species could be so self-righteous, that they truly thought so little of humans.

I thought that Lyra was just saying those hateful things because she was upset about the secrets her parents had kept from her for all these years. But then I thought about the Lycan Alpha’s guilty stare, and how this Claude person, nor Lyra, couldn’t even refer to my gender as a singular identity that I possessed.

The brander knew I ...