The Alpha's Bargain
I should return to my chambers, should maintain the careful schedule that kept me safely within established boundaries.
Instead, I found myself drawn deeper into the library's maze of shelves, following an instinct I couldn't name toward sections I hadn't yet explored.
The books grew older as I moved toward the back of the room, their bindings more fragile, their subjects increasingly esoteric. Here were volumes on subjects that academic institutions would dismiss as superstition—treatises on lycanthropy, studies of lunar influences on human behavior, collections of spells that claimed to bind souls to animal forms.
Research, I thought with grim humor. Someone has been doing very specific re
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