Mate
Those harsh words repeated in her head like a mantra, as she paced back and forth in the woods outside the pack. It was already growing dark. All this while, her mother only saw her as the vermin the rest of the pack called her.
All the pretense. The love and care, was every bit of it fake. She was heartbroken, her wolf enraged, growing even angrier by the second. The full moon hung high in the night sky, its silvery light spilling like liquid over the trees, illuminating the forest in a ghostly glow.
She could already feel it in her veins, every fiber and muscle of her body reacting. She gasped as her bones cracked, and she shifted, ripping through her clothes.
Landing on all four, she raised her snout towards the sky, a loud howl erupting from her chest. She picked up sprinting,
