Veyra POVThe trees fall away, the sky opens, and there it is, the trial grounds, where the alphas, my mates live. Stone gates rise like a warning, carved by hand, old as the bloodlines that cling to them. A shimmering barrier pulses faintly in the air, stretched across the entrance like a silken web. It hums with magic, not mine, but the kind that was built to keep people like me out. Only it can't.I slow, my paws striking the dirt with a final beat, and then I stop just outside the gate. My breath curls in the early air, steady despite the heat twisting inside my core.One by one, the rogues still behind me come to a halt.I shift back, the change rolls through me, tearing flur into flesh, claws into hands until I'm kneeling the earth, naked under the sky. I stand slowly, my muscles tight and alive with magic. I reach for the clothes I left strapped to Caelan's pack before we ran.I dress quickly, not caring that the guards beyond the gates are already shouting, and pointing.When
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