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CHAPTER 28: First Shift

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"Shifting has always hurt. But this is different, this is transformation."

I say it out loud, standing at the edge of the clearing Sage led me to, and the words hang in the cold air like smoke. The full moon sits directly overhead, so bright it throws shadows. My bare feet press into the ground, damp grass and soft earth between my toes, and I can feel the moonlight the way I've never felt it before, not just on my skin but through it, like something on the other side of a door it's been trying
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