Selina’s POV
We floated in comfortable silence for a few minutes, the water lapping gently around us. The moon was full overhead, painting everything in silver and shadow.
“So apart from teleportation,” I said, breaking the quiet, “what else can you do?”
Aaron glanced at me, water droplets clinging to his eyelashes. “Why do you want to know?”
“Curiosity. You just transported us half a mile in the blink of an eye. That’s not exactly normal, even for wolves.”
“Nothing about us is normal.” He swam closer, treading water beside me. “But if you really want to know… I can manipulate shadows.”
“Shadows?”
He lifted his hand from the water, and darkness seemed to gather around his fingers like smoke. It twisted and coiled, forming shapes that defied the moonlight…a wolf, then a bird, then so
