Holly Laren’s POV
Father used to tell me stories of old, when there were no humans, just animal shifters who lived peacefully in a safe haven. And everyone was happy and kind until the first human was born. The first non-shifter born to parents who didn’t understand why their child was different.
As he was the first of his kind, everyone treated him differently, for he was smaller, slower and more breakable than the rest of his kin. He grew up bitter and jealous of everyone around him and sought to make them all pay. So climbed Goat Mountain and discovered magic. Except that his magic was different. With his magic, he could take away the abilities of the shifters and make them human like him.
I always got scared at this part of the story and father would tell me that naughty baby shif
