Lyra's POV
I stood frozen beneath the Moon Tree, the words still hanging in the air around me refusing to settle into anything I could make sense of.
“I am your wolf”
I could barely breathe, “No” I whispered, “That's impossible”
My entire life, I had been told that I was wolfless, the orphan girl who never awakened, the one everyone pitied and no one expected anything from, the one children whispered about when they thought I couldn't hear.
I let out the nervous and weird laugh, “You're lying”
The voice didn't grow angry, it sounded amused,
“If you had no wolf, would the Moon Shrine answer your blood?”
The silver light around the altar blinked as if it was proving the point, it shone brighter for just a moment before settling again.
I thought of everything that had happened si
