SCAR OF THE REJECTED THORN
“But I promise I will always come back to you.”
It wasn’t enough, but it was all I could give.
Moments later, I was in the woods, the patrol moving like shadows at my back. The night air was sharp, damp, charged with something I couldn’t name. My senses stretched out, listening, searching.
And then I caught it.
Blood. But beneath it… something else. Something fragile. Something that struck deep into the core of me.
Orion roared. There. She is there.
Through the trees, by a large tree, I saw her. A girl, broken and pale, her body slumped against the earth. Blood streaked her arm, her clothes torn, dirt staining her skin. She looked far too fragile for the life of a wolf.
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