AMBER POV After the shift, I simply stood there for a moment, my golden-brown paws glinting under the moonlight as I basked in the sheer magnitude of what had just happened. The ground beneath my paws felt cold but alive, every crunch of snow echoing in my sharpened ears. Then, like a surge of energy I couldn’t control, a wild urge to move coursed through me. My limbs felt restless, as though they’d been caged my entire life and had only now been set free. *Let’s run,* Autumn urged, her voice light and playful. *Let’s see what we can do!* With a powerful push, she sprinted forward, our paws digging into the snow as the frozen earth blurred beneath us. The wind rushed past my ears, and the night opened before me, the shadows of the forest beckoning me deeper into its embrace. T

