I was finally given some lunch, just plain oatmeal, and some medicine to help with all the pain. Seth doesn’t leave me alone for even one moment, and I don’t dare tell him what Sage had pointed out.
I guess it's probably because it’s so unusual to shift at such an old age, but it’s hard to believe that we all forgot that tiny detail. Sage is right, though. Your first shift isn’t a choice at all. It just… happens. I’ve obviously never experienced it, but I know of many people who would go out under the full-moonlight, waiting, hopeful to shift, and it wouldn’t happen. There’s no exact age a wolf shifts, but you begin to change just before your 16th birthday, and many wolves shift the first moon after, but not always.
We will be OK, Sage tells me. We were made for this.
What if
