Epilogue: Five Years Later

POV: Maya

The classroom was chaotic in the best possible way. Twenty children between the ages of six and eight, half human and half supernatural, worked on a joint art project that had somehow evolved into a paint war.

"Ms. Maya! Tommy turned into a wolf and got paint all over my drawing!" a human girl complained.

"Sophia started it! She threw blue at me first!" Tommy, currently a wolf pup covered in blue and yellow paint, defended himself.

I surveyed the ...