All Chapters of The Luna Who Couldn't Shift : Chapter 11 - Chapter 16

Chapter 12The morning of my fifth day in captivity begins like the others. Elena arrives at dawn with her medical bag and a tray of food—the bread is still warm, with cheese, dried fruit, and tea that steams in the cool mountain air. She sets it on the small table by the window, the same routine we've established over the past days."Eat first," she says, already pulling out her journal to review yesterday's notes. "Then we'll start with meditation exercises. You did well yesterday—held contact for thirty seconds without disruption. Today we'll try for a full minute."I nod as I try to eat. I should be hungry since I’ve barely eaten since the ceremony, but my stomach is too twisted with anxiety to accept food. But this morning, something feels different. I pick up the tea first, wrapping my hands around the warm ceramic. The heat flows into my fingers, chasing away the ever-present chill of these stone walls. I breathe in the steam—it smells of chamomile and honey, with lavender.

Chapter 14Two days after the poisoning, Elena declares me fit enough to resume training."We're already behind schedule," she says, unwrapping fresh bandages from my wrists where the wolfsbane chains left their marks. "We don't have much time until the Council arrives."I flex my fingers, testing my strength. My body still feels sore; even my bones feel heavy to move. But I'm alive, and Marcus's wolf is still safely contained inside me. That has to be enough."Where do we start?" I ask."Same as before. You start from meditation first." Elena gestures to the chair. "But this time, we're changing locations. Kade wants you training in the lower chambers so that if something goes wrong...""I'm contained, right?" I thought out loud. "Like the dangerous thing I am.""No, it's not like that, Sera; this is just a cautionary measure," she corrects gently. "There's a difference."The guards escort us through corridors I haven't seen before—older parts of the pack house carved deep into the

Chapter 16I'm running out of time.Elena arrives at dawn like she has every morning, but today there's urgency in her movements. She doesn't bother with pleasantries, just sets her medical bag on the table and turns to me with grim determination."We're attempting the restoration today."I sit up too quickly, head spinning. "What? But I'm not ready. We haven't even practiced the full technique—""We're running out of time." She begins pulling out supplies—bandages, medicinal compounds, instruments I don't recognize. "The Council arrives in two days. If you walk into that chamber without proof that you can restore what you've taken, they'll execute you before you can speak a word in your defense.""But Marcus—the partial shift nearly killed him. If I try the full restoration and fail—""Then he dies human instead of dying slowly from grief and separation. "Sera, Marcus came to me last night. Begged me to convince Kade to allow the attempt. He says he'd rather die trying to be whole a