LOGINElora Veyne has spent her life being a person that nobody really notices. In the Velmora Pack being strong is what matters. If you are not strong people just sort of forget about you. Elora Veyne never had a wolf like everybody so she learned how to be quiet and stay out of the way. This way she was safe. Nobody bothered her. That was until the night that she got chosen by the bond. The bond just happens it is not something you can control. It is very strong. The person she got bonded to is Drax Halvorsen, the Alpha King who can change everything around him without trying. For a while Elora Veyne felt like she was somebody important. Then Drax Halvorsen said no to her. He did it in front of everybody. The bond, between Elora Veyne and Drax Halvorsen did not completely go away it was still there. It was not right. This made Elora Veyne a problem that the Velmora Pack did not know how to deal with. So they tried to make Elora Veyne disappear. What happened next is something that Drax Halvorsen cannot fix. Elora Veyne did not disappear she stayed alive. Being alive changed Elora Veyne. When Elora Veyne came back she was not the person that everybody used to ignore and Drax Halvorsen had to deal with the one mistake that he could not take back. This time the bond did not get to decide what happened Elora Veyne, the Rejected Luna got to decide.
View MoreThe new alpha's name was Cress.She was thirty-one years old and had been leading Ironfen for six months following the death of the alpha who had led the pack for twenty-two years before her. She had been his second for four of those years. She had been prepared, formally, thoroughly, by a man who had understood governance well.She had not been prepared for this.She met them at the settlement boundary with two wolves at her sides and the expression of someone managing a situation they do not fully understand and have decided to manage it through composure until understanding arrives.She looked at Elora."I received the message from Obsidian Crown," she said. "I was told to expect a visit from the Luna."Cael had sent word ahead. Good."Yes," Elora said. "I am Elora Veyne.""Cress." She looked at the group. At Drax, who she recognized. At Kade, who she assessed with a single careful look. At Torren, who she looked at slightly longer, with the expression of someone noticing something
She slept through most of the first day.Not heavily. The light sleep of someone whose body has been running at a cost and has finally been given permission to stop. She woke twice and heard Drax moving quietly in the adjacent room and felt the bond warm and present and went back under without difficulty.When she woke properly it was late afternoon.She lay still for a moment and took inventory. The founding text was settled and quiet. Nythera was at rest in the way she was at rest after significant work, deeply still rather than alert. The bond hummed at its steady register.She was tired.Not broken. Tired in the honest way of someone who has done a great deal and needs time before doing more.She got up.Drax was in the courtyard.He had the document from the review in his hands and was reading with the focused attention he gave to governance work. The afternoon sun was low enough to be warm rather than bright and it lay across the courtyard in long stripes.He looked up when she
She did not expect the knock.She was in her room in the eastern wing, sitting at the window, looking at the settlement below and feeling the founding text quiet in her chest and the bond warm with Drax's presence two rooms away.The knock was light. Deliberate.She rose and opened the door.Lira Veran stood in the corridor.She looked older than she had looked two weeks ago. Not physically. In her eyes. The kind of aging that happens when something you have been carrying for a long time becomes too heavy to carry the same way anymore."May I come in?" Lira asked.Elora stepped aside.Lira came in and looked at the room briefly, then at Elora."You wrote to me," she said. "Before you left for the invisible territory.""Yes.""I did not answer.""No," Elora said. "You did not."Lira looked at the window. "I wanted to answer. I wrote three versions. I sent none of them." She paused. "Because the true answer is complicated and I was not certain you would believe it if I sent it in a lett
The road back took six days.She had thought they would talk about it. About her mother, about the letter, about what she would say to Aldric when they arrived. But they did not talk about it much.Drax seemed to understand that she needed the road for processing rather than discussing. He walked beside her and let the silence be what it was and when she did speak, he listened completely and did not try to solve anything she was not asking him to solve.On the third day she told him about a memory.She had been seven. Her mother had taken her to the edge of Velmora's territory and told her to walk the boundary alone and come back when she could name three things she had seen that no one else would have noticed.She had been gone for four hours.When she came back she told her mother about the way the bark changed texture on the north-facing side of the old oak, about the pattern of moss that indicated underground water, about the bird's nest positioned in a location that seemed wrong
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