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I heaved a deep sigh as I once again missed the mark and tried to refocus my emotions.

“You’re thinking too much, feel Raine, Feel.” I heard Gust’s voice echo from somewhere off to the side of me. It had been I dont even know how many days since he and Tell had arrived and I felt as if I was no closer to controlling my element. They disagreed, always telling me I was stronger already than they were years in, but I didn’t need strength without control. That would hurt my people. So here I was, in the cove on pack lands that was well hidden from the other pack members, trying to harness the water that called to my soul.

“You need to find the one emotion that triggers it. And I can already tell you it isn’t anger, so focus on the one you know you have to but don’t want to,” Tell told me.

I huffed. He was right. Anger wasn’t my emotion. Anger wasn’t tied to wa