Chapter 14 – A Blade in Her Dream
The forest had gone quiet long before Seren finally gave into sleep. The Moonborne pack’s settlement, usually alive with the soft lull of wolf-howls and the chatter of night creatures, was eerily subdued that evening. She could not decide if it was the heavy air pressing down upon the camp or simply the weight of exhaustion tugging at her eyelids.
She had trained until her body trembled. Lyra had been relentless—drills, stances, footwork, all designed to remind Seren of how small, weak, and human she still was among them. Every bruise, every fall into the dirt seemed to echo Lyra’s cold stare: You don’t belong here.
But when she finally crawled into the small tent they had given her, Seren could not find peace. Shadows clung to the corners. Her mind wan
