Being human again felt wrong.
My body was too small. Too fragile. Too limited. I could not feel the pack anymore. Could not sense the barriers between worlds. Could not touch the infinite the way I had as the seal.
“Do you feel it too?” Kade asked. His voice sounded strange. Separate from mine. “The emptiness?”
“Yes. Like we lost something vital. Like we are incomplete.”
We sat in my father’s old study. Three days had passed since the Voids died. Three days since we became human again. Three days of trying to remember how to be individuals instead of one merged consciousness.
It was harder than fighting the Voids.
Sera knocked on the door. “The pack council wants to meet. They have questions. About leadership. About what comes next.”
“Tell them we need more time.”
“Aria, we have gi
