Arwen’s povI stopped shifting three years ago but nobody knows that part.The first thing I notice every morning is the sound. Even now, it's still dark outside, that weird time between night and actual morning, and the howls that start right on schedule. I lie in bed listening to the pack transform in the clearing behind our property, and I wonder what's wrong with me that I can't do what they make look so easy.Today is my eighteenth birthday, and I'm still human.I get out of bed and go to the window because that's what I do. Sarah Chen is already down there in the clearing, her bones cracking and reforming like they're putting on a show just for me. I've watched her do this a hundred times. Jake Morrison follows, his transformation faster than hers because he's been doing it longer. Everyone transforms better than me. Everyone except me never actually tries."You coming down?"I jump at the sound of Margaret's voice. My adoptive mom is standing in my doorway in her old robe, the
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