"Are you okay? What happened?"
I asked Aviell as he got ready after taking his bath.
"Yes, I'm fine."
"That's cold.
So, would you mind telling me where you went this morning, leaving me all alone?"
"I'm sorry, I went to learn how to control my wolf spirit. "
"You mean the bear?"
"Come on, it's a wolf."
"Aviell, I know what I saw. You may think I'm weak or something, but I'm telling you, that day, you turned into a big brown bear. "
I reassured him. His eyes fixed on me, his face seemed confused, searching for a phrase to whisper, but nothing came out of his lips. Instead, he turned his face away from me.
"Maybe that's why the ritual didn't work."
He said it softly, but I heard him.
"What ritual? You said it worked."
"I'm not talking about our mating ritual, but my rituals rela
