The next two days were intense, more than I had anticipated. I probably thought it was a little thing I would be learning, how foolish of me. The intense training I did pushed me beyond my limits, I worked, I learned, I sweat, and yet it never seemed to be enough. Luna Verena and the women who thought me were hell-bent on breaking me. I remember watching my mother care for our pack members, seeing how she taught every child and woman the little she had learned over the years. She is ever as soft spoken as I have known her to be, impacting wisdom without doing much, she was a natural at this and so is Luna Verena. And now, Luna Verena was doing the same for me, trying to impact the same wisdom and training me. Each day, I observed her settle disputes with wisdom and grace, passing judg

