Chapter 15: Training Begins
The dawn broke with a muted hush, pale silver spilling through the canopy of trees that shadowed the Moonborne village. Seren stirred awake on her straw mattress, her muscles sore from the constant unease that had haunted her since the night she entered this world. Every creak, every murmur outside the small wooden hut Lyra had begrudgingly allowed her to rest in, carried the reminder that she didn’t belong here.
She blinked away the fog of sleep. Her hands trembled against the coarse blanket as she pulled it aside.
Today was the day.
The day she would either prove herself—or confirm the whispers that she was nothing but a fragile human caught in the wolves’ den.
Outside, the morning air was crisp, stinging her lungs as she stepped into it. Her bare feet me
