Hannah’s POVI moved through the compound quietly, my head down, that was the trick to surviving here, be useful enough not to be punished and invisible enough not to be noticed.The social brutality of Crescenthood pack members never stops. A beta might shove past me in the hallway without a word. A group of deltas could laugh loudly about the wolf-less freak while I scrubbed nearby, knowing I could hear every word. I had mastered the art of not reacting, because that would only make things worse for me. This morning I was assigned to the lower courtyard garden, pulling weeds, sweeping fallen leaves, and cleaning the stone paths before the higher ranks came out for training. My hands were already dirty by nine o’clock, my back aching from bending over the flowerbeds.Then the small footsteps started.At first I thought it was my imagination, but then I heard it again followed me from flowerbed to flowerbed. I straightened up slowly and turned.A little boy, maybe five years old, st
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