# Chapter 21: War
**Lily's POV**
I sat in the medical wing wrapped in a blanket, my entire body aching from the shift and the fight, and felt something inside me fundamentally change.
I'd shifted. After five years of nothing, of being told I was defective and broken, my wolf had finally emerged. And she was fierce. She was strong. She was everything Derek had tried to convince me I could never be.
Dr. Chen was treating the claw marks on my arms, her movements gentle but her expression concerned. "You need to rest, Lily. That was your first shift—your body is going to be exhausted for days. The transformation alone is traumatic, but you fought immediately after. You need to—"
"No," I interrupted, my voice stronger than it had ever been. "I need to train. I need to learn how to fight pr
