Shawls Academy: Claw Spirits Battle
"You know things about the book. Why the black fur? Even witchcraft couldn't touch it when Nigel turned me to Leslie. Nothing has ever explained it."
"That's the part no one's ever explained." My voice dropped low, careful, aware suddenly of how thin the walls around us really were. "But I remember the book clearly — it said a black wolf was considered a threat to every other wolf bloodline, something ancient and forbidden. The story's protagonist claimed something had been hunting her for years because of it, something that never stopped, never tired."
I hesitated, and the silence stretched taut between us, humming with everything I hadn't said yet, every word I knew would change the shape