I did not join another pack after returning south.Julian and I built an independent healing house outside White Birch Valley. We treated lower-ranked wolves turned away by their packs, pups whose inner wolves had failed to awaken, and rogues with nowhere else to go.At first, some questioned whether an Omega had the right to practice healing without an Alpha’s authority.Julian never answered the insult for me. He simply laid out the records of every wolf I had saved.“Her rank does not determine whether she is qualified,” he said. “The lives she has saved do.”More patients crossed pack borders to find us. Even the Silvermoon Elders who had once declared me unfit to be Luna were eventually forced to send an envoy for the moonbreath flowers I had cultivated.I sold them the medicine at its ordinary price.Not because I had forgiven them, but because a healer did not punish a dying patient for the prejudice of an Elder.From time to time, news of Adrian reached White Birch Valley.He n
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