It didn't even take a second after The Herald finished his sentence when my parents rushed on him. Daddy Marku's wolf leaped in the air, his jaws wide open and teeth bared. The Herald moved to the right to dodge him, but my mother was waiting for an opening and managed to wound him with a swipe of her claws. Blood dribbled from The Herald's wound, stark red against the bright light and white walls. "So you bleed, Shadow," my mother uttered, her voice dripping with venom. The Herald grinned and raised his wounded arm to lick the cut. "Surprised?" The woman, my mother's twin sister, whom I would be dubbing as Evil Twin, screeched and reappeared several feet away from our group. The swarm of wasps coalesced around her in a whirlwind of acid and beating wings. "You! How dare you interrupt

