“Luna…” Ava gasped, shocked.
“Why are you here?”
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Lyra sighed and walked toward Ava, extending a hand to help her up. Ava’s hand clutched tightly in Lyra’s palm as she pulled her up.
“Are you okay?” Luna Lyra asked. Ava smiled slightly. It was just a little blood—she’d had worse.
“What happened?” Lyra asked.
Ava chuckled, her lips curling into a smirk. “I captured it and brought it home. It looked different… unique. It was a female, and she shifted to her human form. She looked so harmless, so innocent. I let her out, but on the condition that she wouldn’t shift again. But of course, she did.”
She glanced around the wrecked living room. “And now here we are.”
Lyra shook her head. “You’ll never change, will you?”
Ava laughed. “Well, you smell like one of us,” she added,
