Rael's PovI needed to get out of the pack house and away from all the whispers and stares, so I went for a walk around the pack grounds. It was early morning, and the air was cool and clean, and for a moment, I could almost pretend things were normal.But they were not normal, nothing was normal anymore.The training grounds came into view first, and I stopped to watch the warriors practicing. They moved in formations I didn't recognize and used techniques that were new to me. The head warrior shouting orders was not Gerald, who had trained our fighters for twenty years. It was someone younger, with a scar across his jaw and a harsh voice.Everything had changed.I kept walking past the houses where pack families lived and noticed new buildings that hadn't been there before. The bakery had been expanded, there was a new meeting hall near the center of the grounds, and even the children's play area had been redesigned.Five years was a long time. Long enough for everything to shift an
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