[Sera]
"That's impossible," I say, my voice scraping out tight and raw. "I've been tested since I was a kid. Elders, doctors, everyone said I was wolfless."
Liora's gaze doesn't waver. "They weren't wrong. Not exactly. Your wolf sealed itself away. Buried deep, undetectable by their crude methods."
"Sealed? Why?"
She leans against the cluttered table, firelight carving shadows into her unnaturally smooth face. "Did you go through something traumatic as a child?"
My mind reels back, unbidden, to that night—headlights blinding, metal screaming, the sterile white of hospital walls closing in...
I must look like I've been gut-punched because Liora nods, like yeah, that checks out.
"When a young wolf senses its host can't handle the pain, it seals itself away, dials down every sense to n
