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SERAPHINAWolves.They came out of the dark in three points, exactly where I’d heard the sounds.Large. All three of them already shifted, their forms low and moving with so much control you’d know they were a category of wolves that had done this before. They weren’t feral at all. The first one was grey and massive across the shoulders, easily the biggest wolf I’d ever seen outside of Damien’s white form. The second was darker, almost black, with a scar running the length of its left flank that caught the moonlight. The third hung back slightly, reading us, its pale eyes moving between Marcus and me with an intelligence that made my skin pull tight.“Shift,” I said to Marcus.He was already going.I let mine come, the familiar crack and remake of bone, the world expanding as my grey wolf pushed through. The pain was brief and absolute and then I was low to the ground with the night sharpened around me and three unknown wolves between us and the path home.The grey on came fast an

SERAPHINAI woke up with a crick in my neck and Callum’s jacket over my shoulders.The lobby chairs were not definitely designed for sleeping, only for the specific discomfort of waiting, which they achieved comprehensively. I sat up slowly, blinking the hospital brightness into focus, and found Callum already awake in the chair beside me with a paper cup of something that smelled like coffee but probably wasn’t.He looked at me. “Morning.”“What time is it?”“Half six.” He handed me the cup. “Drink it anyway. It’s warm.”I drank it. He was right. It was warm and tasted like ambition without follow-through but it was something.The lobby had shifted from its night configuration to its early morning one. Different nurses, different light coming through the windows, the building changing shifts around us while we’d sat in it unchanged.The doctor appeared at seven. Not Vane. A different one, older, with the unhurried manner of someone who had delivered enough news in enough corridors t