The Awakening
But because screaming took energy I didn't have, and because somewhere deep inside, something was changing.
My mother's blood, maybe. Or something older than that. Something that refused to die.
The thirteenth lash. The fourteenth. The fifteenth.
And then, suddenly, it stopped.
I hung from the chains, barely conscious, my back a ruin of torn flesh and flowing blood. I couldn't feel my body anymore. I couldn't feel anything except the deep, cold emptiness where my wolf should have been.
But I was still breathing. I was still alive.
Through the roaring in my ears, I heard voices.
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