THE FOREST TRIAL •••**Mira's POV**••• The list went up at seven a.m. Teams of four, assigned by rank. Everyone paired with their bloodline match, their combat level, and their pack alliance. It was neat, logical, hierarchical — the way everything at Apex Moon was organized. At the bottom of the list, alone in its own line: 'Vale, M. — Solo.' I stared at it for a moment. Then I pulled out my map and walked away before anyone could see my face. --- Petra caught me in the corridor on the way to the gear room. "You can appeal it," she said, falling into step beside me. "Aldric can't send a student in alone, there are rules...." "He can if no team claims her." I kept walking. "Nobody claimed me." "Mira...." "It's fine." It wasn't fine. But saying so wouldn't change the list, and I had approximately forty minutes before the trial started, and I needed to spend those forty minutes thinking about the forest rather than about the particular cruelness of bei
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