Sora's POV
Bobby goes off to dig into Riven, and while he's gone I keep chewing on the rest of it myself.
Oliver. Riven. What the King said in the hall. And the mark on my shoulder.
That last one is the one that won't let go. The defector called it a binding. Ian tried to tell me something about it years ago and got cut off before he finished. I spent my whole life reading it as the thing that meant I was born wolfless. Now I'm not sure that's what it ever was.
Three things, and every one of them is a blank. Oliver's past. My shoulder. Riven's early years. Three holes where a story should be, and I've stopped believing they're all just bad luck landing in the same place.
When I took Oliver in, there was nothing on him. No papers, no pack, no name but the one I gave him. I never went l
