" Again! Harder!" Zaydem called to Eryna; she was struggling but pushed on. She punched through the stuffed hay dummy; her hands hurt, but she didn’t want to stop; she wanted to prove herself, not just to him but to herself.
He watched her every punch and firm stance as he walked around her, with his hands folded at his back while watching her, but a dark part of Eryna still felt like she might have been too rash about starting the lesson too fast, and it started with a sparring dummy that made her bones ache for every punch.
The onyx pack rules were three rituals: sparring, meditation, and then change—having the strength to control yourself and your inner wolf—and that was what Eryna wanted to learn; she wanted to be able to change freely and be connected to her wolf Ereney "again!" He
