POV: Principal Lear

The blood moon warning came at noon from the astronomy department.

I stood in my office reading the report with growing dread. A rare lunar eclipse coinciding with the harvest moon, creating the kind of supernatural pressure that made even the most controlled wolves dangerously unstable.

"How bad?" I asked Professor Chen, who'd delivered the news personally.

"Worst combination in fifteen years. The eclipse starts at 8 PM and reaches totality at 9:15. During that window, ...