Chapter twenty-three

Elias’ pov

My mother had asked me in advance if I wanted to shift with just her or if other people could be present. At the time I didn’t mind having an audience, a lot of people had their first shift in front of others. But now the time was getting closer to my own first shift I was getting anxious. Would it be better to just do this with my parents? I asked my mother ‘mama, do you think it would be better if it was just you and me when I shift?’. She looked at me and saw my nerves and nodded. ‘I know just the place. Let me just tell Axel to let everyone know we will meet them for a run after you’ve shifted’. She seemed to mindlink my father and we walked together to the edge of the forest. My father brought a big t-shirt for my mother to wear and some shorts for me, it would be awful to ruin our nice clothes after wearing them only one night. I stripped and put on the short, as did my mother and we walked into the trees. My parents were holding hands and looking u