POV: Desi Whitmore

Otto and I sat in the memorial garden that had been created for Juliana.

The pack leaders had commissioned a sculpture representing wolves choosing love over duty. It was beautiful and heartbreaking and exactly what Juliana would have wanted to be remembered for.

"Do you think we'll ever feel normal again?" Otto asked.

"I think we'll feel different. And eventually different will become the new normal."

"That's not very reassuring."

"It's honest. We went through trauma ...