Chapter 18
Human coming-of-age rituals are many and varied. But in the end, most traditional cultures have celebrated the cusp between childhood and adulthood by pushing the skills and stamina of their youngsters to their limits.
Not to be outdone, werewolf societies strive to take these ceremonies to an entirely new level. So while young Ethiopians are required to leap over a living bull four times n***d, young shifters are made to jump over a family member who’s holding flaming torches aloft and is swiping the fire dangerously through the air. Inuit boys are sent out into the frigid arctic with their fathers to learn survival skills, while werewolf boys are expected to embrace their instincts untutored by killing a wild animal within their first twenty-four hours of shifting to fur and
