"Well," I thought. "That is uncomfortably accurate."
I typed again: 'werewolf bloodline abilities emotion sensing moon goddess.'
The results were thinner this time, more scattered, most of it was general folklore about werewolf gifts, things I had heard variations of in Professor Harlan's class.
But one entry near the bottom caught my eye, a small academic-style paper about dormant bloodline gifts and the conditions under which they resurfaced. I clicked on it and read slowly, moving through the careful language with my finger tracing the screen.
Dormant gifts, according to the paper, didn't disappear. They compressed. Generational trauma, suppression, or simply the absence of the right conditions could push a gift so far down that it stopped showing in the bloodline entirely, sometim
