Aria Vale
I skip my afternoon classes to train. Elder Moira isn't happy when she hears about the challenge, but she agrees to help prepare me.
"Vivienne is a skilled fighter," she warns as we return to the training grounds. "She's fast, aggressive, and experienced. Your only advantages are your Silvercrest abilities and the element of surprise. She's expecting you to fight like a Beta. You need to fight like something else entirely."
"How do I do that when I barely know what I can do?"
"We figured it out. Quickly." She shifts into her wolf form, a gray and white creature with wise, ancient eyes. "Shift. Let's see what you're working with."
I shift the transformation easier now than it was at the ceremony. My wolf emerges in a cascade of silver and gold, larger than I remember, marked
