The night we went back, heavy snow was falling over the shifter world.My mother changed into clean clothes and spent more than two hours in the kitchen.I sat outside and waited for her.The Moon Goddess's voice spoke at my ear.“Your mother carries the white wolf bloodline. Her hands have healed countless lives. Yet those four wounded her, betrayed her, drove her to her death, and they harmed you as well. The grace of the Moon Goddess never shelters those who betray.”My mother came out of the kitchen carrying a tray. Four bowls on it, steam curling up.The soup the four of them loved most. She'd made it for twenty years and remembered every one of their tastes.She carried the tray and pushed open the great doors of the palace.My four daddies were inside.Ever since I fell from the terrace, the whole palace had been turned upside down. The four of them were grey-faced and haggard, stubble grown out, eyes sunk deep, the look of men who hadn't shut their eyes in a month.The instant
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