Terra came home, her spirits at the lowest point they'd ever been. Those she had counted as friends had turned from her, rejecting her because of something beyond her control. The pack was in trouble, slowly shrinking in numbers, and even while her body burned she fought with the fact that she couldn't gain what she wanted because she didn't have a mate. Her stupid wolf blood, the part of her those she'd called friends would accept, wouldn't let her do anything less than mate for life, something that was guaranteed to not be gained overnight. Even worse, the one friend she had in the pack was holding a secret, one that she refused to share. This wouldn't bother her so much, if it was a normal secret and not the kind that ate away at Caspa's time.
Inside the familiar borders once more Terra found herself turning away from the hotel. She didn't want to be in her room right now. Terra craved the comforts of the world she'd been in growing up, danger surrounding her so that sorrow didn't have time to fight with her. The sadness that followed her when she left her birth pack was less than this, swallowed up by the fight for survival. Without those worries, without the threat of death, every pinprick of emotion was clearly felt, a background her instincts danced across. Reaching a starlit clearing Terra tilted back her head and howled, her cries reaching the moon so far above her.
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