The Alpha Who Lost the Moon
He shifts.
It is not like anything I have seen from him before. The man I have come to know over these weeks, controlled and careful and learning to be tender, is still in there somewhere. But the thing that rises in his place is ancient and massive and utterly without the hesitation that has defined him since his return. A black wolf, enormous, filling the center of the ruins with presence alone.
Dorian actually takes a step back.
Just one. Then he steadies himself.
"Impressive," he says. "But you can't fight binding magic with teeth."