MIRA'S
POV
I opened my eyes in a different place.
I found myself standing on a cliff's edge, wrapped in mist and moonlight. The sea raged below, but it made no sound. Silence pressed in on my ears, and on my heart.
Then it came: the first trial.
The next thing I felt was pain stab my chest like a two-edged sword. I gasped, my eyes widening.
I was back in the heart of Thane’s pack, surrounded and judged. I watched her spell out my sentence of banishment, the two words that had haunted me echoing through the hall. I tried to scream it wasn’t fair—that I had done nothing wrong—but my voice was gone. The eyes turned away. The shame wrapped around me like chains.
A voice whispered: "You were never one of them."
I dropped to my knees, tears stinging my eyes. I dreaded this moment, if I
