Ariel.
I blinked, my eyes fluttering open as I looked around. I was alone.
Strangely, the bed I had just woken up from didn’t look like mine. It didn’t look like Magnus’s either.
Even the room felt strange. It resembled the one I used to sleep in back in my former pack. But how? How did I get here?
Confused, I stood up and walked toward the door. The moment I stepped outside the room, everything changed.
I was no longer in a house—I was in the middle of the woods, surrounded by towering trees. An eerie silence filled the air, broken only by a low, unsettling sound that sent a chill through my body.
There was no clear path, no way out. Just as I was about to venture deeper into the forest in search of an escape, I heard a voice.
A familiar voice.
"Ariel! Help me!" the voice c
