Kael’s POV
Elara Lakan cannot shift.
It had taken me two days of following her to come to that conclusion on my own before she told me. I’d figured that she either lacked the ability or her wolf was injured.
To add insult to injury, the forest is full of dangerous creatures who are watching her, viewing her as potential prey. I’ve been dealing with them, but there is more that plagues her.
Elara herself is also quite badly injured, and she is ill. The injury on her leg is not healing. She tries not to let it affect her, but she is clearly in the throes of fever. Eating nothing but fruit isn’t helping her case; even if she cannot shift, she needs meat. However, it doesn’t seem like she has the ability to hunt at this point.
I didn’t mean to interfere. The plan was to watch her, observe
