The Alpha's Second Daughter, Silent Departure
I began, my voice even and measured,
“There was once a pack. An Alpha and his Luna had two daughters. They had their first shift on the same day. To create a ‘perfect heir,’ they took the sacred potion that should have been split between them… and gave the entire dose to one daughter. The other one survived the agony of the shift all on her own.”
The studio was so quiet I could hear the cameras whirring.
I continued,
“Later, during the harshest of the trials, a rabid bear charged at the ‘prodigy.’ It was the neglected daughter who threw herself in front of her sister, taking the full force of the attack. Her wounds were deep enough to show bone. But the victor’s crest, the roaring applause…