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Conri was walking around the ludus’ training yard, memories animated before his eyes: first beating, first win, first whipping, first time he saw Fidella. She had changed him so much for the better. She had made him see how wrong this life was. No amount of glory could replace the right of choice and state of freedom.
“Einar, why wouldn’t you tell me what a mate was when we first saw Fidella?” Conri asked.
“The Goddess gave me a stubborn human. If I had told you, you wouldn’t have seen all that she is through your own eyes. A mate is a bond created for the wolf, but Fidella is so precious that I wanted her to be loved in all ways. You loved her as a man loves a woman first, and then as a mate second. If
