AureliaDawn the next morning was in one simple word, cold.The damp chill of dawn sent shudders down my spine despite me heavily swathing myself in the thickest cotton cardigan I could find that would let me move with agility in the training, while the mist rolling across the Blackridge Academy fields only made everything as bad as it seemed.To my surprise, though, hundreds of students were there too, all of us already gathering on the cold, wet grass. The air was also cold, thick with a dizzying mix of scents-nervous sweat, sharp adrenaline, and the underlying, competitive musk of dozens of young werewolf students. It was all enough to make my inner wolf pace restlessly beneath my ribs. I walked out onto the grass with Kai and Talia by my side, and it was difficult to ignore how the murmurs died down everywhere we passed, only to be replaced by a heavy, suffocating silence and watchful eyes. I tried to look at some of them, to try to read what their minds were thinking, and I mad
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