History
My name is Amanda Dillinger and it is probably a good idea to start by telling you who exactly I am. 16 years ago my mother met her Fated Mate, gifted to her by the Moon Goddess while she was at a ball. For 2 wonderful days, she believes she would love happily ever after with the man she willingly gave herself too. On day 3 however he pulled the rug out from under her, rejecting her because she was from a weaker Pack and she was just a Kappa. Too make it even worse, after accepting his rejection, he exiled her from the lands of the Lycans.
When the Crown Prince exiles you, no one will accept you. Lycan or Wolf, doesn't matter. Her only saving grace that day was that her Alpha refused to curse her as a Rogue and she never faced the King for him to do it to her either.
There is a major difference between exiles and Rogues, not that many of the Wolf or Lycan Packs care. So I grew up among the Humans in a city not far from where the Royal Lycan Pack was. My mother, couldn't force herself to flee far from her Mate, as being rejected never truly severs the bond. It just dulls it so that the other person cannot tell when you take a Chosen Mate to be with. She however refused to let his rejection destroy her, so she made a great life for us. She became one of the best Human Attorneys in the country, everyone wanting her on their high profile cases.
It was only a few weeks after he rejected her that she learned she was pregnant with his child, giving birth to me just hours after he was crowned the Lycan King because his father had been killed in battle. My mother has known my entire life, telling me as I grew up that I was a Princess and one day would return to the Lycan world to take my rightful place.
At 8 years old I shifted into my Lycan for the first time. Unlike the stories tell you, I have no inner voice or feral desires of an animal. No shifter does. The ability to take Human Form was a gift from the goddess to prevent our extinction when the Humans began hunting our kind. It was the first way we protected ourselves, despite the fact that we live very separately even though there has been peace for nearly 5 thousand years. The earlier we can shift, the more powerful we are, most of the Royal Family shifting at 10 years old. As the youngest ever, I am unrivaled with my snow white fur and towering height.
As a Human, I am extremely unassuming. Standing at 5'6" with bright red hair and dazzling sapphire blue eyes, I am not much more than any one of 100 other girls my age. As a Lycan however, I stand at an amazing 9'3" tall covered in snow white fur so thick that it is impossible to get cold. Even my father who is King isn't as tall as I am as a Lycan as he is only 9' even. Yes, I do know who he is, despite the fact that I have no desire to ever meet him or my brothers.
What has been funny to me however, is that each time his children have been tested for the power to rule, it has come back negative which has infuriated him beyond belief. He however has no idea that I exist and as the daughter born of his Fated Mate, his Chosen Mate's children could never claim the Throne from me.
That takes us to a few weeks ago, when it was set into law that any shifter of school age had to go to a school of their respective species. Too many exiles had been sent to the Human World, never having learned what it meant to be a shifter. Witches had the same issue, they however had made the agreement with the humans ages ago because they mostly got a long. Thanks to my mother's status in the human world and my grades, I got into one of the most prestigious Lycan Schools there were that was just a few miles from the house. It was the perfect solution for her to keep living at home, because I run further than that every day.
