ADRIANA Training was extra extra stressful because it was like Hazel wasn’t in a good mood at all. She’d pushed us harder than usual. Longer runs. More drills. Harder sparring. Whatever it was that Elijah was preparing the pack for, it was clearly getting closer and more serious. As soon as I got back to my room exhausted, I took a long hot shower and went straight to bed, the muscles in my legs feeling the burn the most. Every movement ached. I’d just fallen asleep when I started to dream vividly. I was floating in the clouds and for a moment, I genuinely wondered if I was dead. Was I? I was pretty sure that Hannah was somehow responsible if I was. Maybe she’d finally succeeded. “You’re not dead.” I screamed loudly and looked behind me in panic. It was a young girl. She had long sil

