AFTER DIVORCE, I BECAME A LUNA
She was standing very still, her arms wrapped around two sleeping pups, her white hair blowing in the wind.
"Ask your mother who she really is," Marrow said gently. "I think you will find it is a very interesting story."
"My mother is dead," Mom said. Her voice was thin. "She died when I was a baby. The omegas who raised me told me so."
"Did they?" Marrow looked genuinely sorry. "How sad. They really should have checked."
He lifted one hand. Ridge pulled the chain. The great black dragon beat her wings once, and a storm of dust swept the courtyard. Then they rose, higher and higher, the huge drum swinging beneath them, until they were only a dark shape against the sun.