POV: Mina (Age 18 - Transformation Complete)
The command hung in the air like thunder.
Every wolf in the ceremonial grounds felt it. Not just heard it but felt it, the word resonating at a frequency that bypassed ears entirely and went straight to whatever was most animal in their nature. The part that understood hierarchy not as social construction but as fundamental truth written into bone and blood.
Wolves dropped.
Not just the Trio. Everyone. Every wolf-formed student in the ceremonial grounds went down in a wave that rippled outward from where I stood at the circle's center. Betas and Alphas and even the few dominant females present, all of them forced to the ground by a voice that commanded reality itself.
The humans—students who'd stayed in human form to observe, faculty member
