SELENE Mara found me in the library after dinner. She sat down across from me without asking if she could. She looked exhausted, like she had been holding something in all day and she could not hold it anymore. "I am scared," she admitted. I closed my book and looked at her. "I know," I said. "No you don't," Mara said. Her voice was shaking. "You have Kael. You have Calder, you have people who understand what is happening. I am just a regular werewolf who got bound to a Luna and now there is an enforcer looking for us and I do not know what to do." She was right. I had not really thought about what this was like for her. How isolating it must feel to be part of something this big when you did not choose it. "You are not just a regular werewolf," I said. "You are part of the binding.

