Nightshade
"Seraphina. Call to your wolf. Let her emerge. Shift.
Absolutel silence fell over the clearing. I closed my eyes as I reached inward, desperately searching for any hint of a wolf. Any spark of animal consciousness. Any sign that I was more than just a broken shell.
Please.... please, I begged silently. Please be there, don't let me die like this.
Nothing
Just the same emptiness I'd felt for eighteen years
I tried even harder, pushing against that emptiness, searching for....
Wait. Was that....
For just a second, I felt something. A stirring deep in my chest, like a presence waking from a very long sleep, like it was flickering behind a locked door.
Hello. I called to it desperately. Please,