Moonlit Bonds
they answered in unison, the eagerness in their voices impossible to miss.
Twenty minutes later, we stood at the edge of the northern woods. The moon hung low and full in the sky, bathing the forest in silver light. I breathed deeply, letting the wild scents of the forest fill my lungs. Pine and loam, night-blooming flowers and the distant musk of deer—it called to Star, who surged forward eagerly.
"Ready?" I asked, already slipping out of my clothes without self-consciousness. The shift was too important, too necessary for modesty.