The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0611

I decided to make my presence more obvious and walked closer to Elva, Nicholas in his wolf form, Night, and Silver. Nicholas shifted back into his human form now, sitting in the grass.

"Piper," he said, smiling slightly, a wolfish grin. He was proud of his wolf form.

"Hi, Mommy!" Elva said. "Nick-lass was showing me his wolf!*

*I saw," I said as I knelt beside her in the grass. "What do you think?"

"So big!" She stretched her arms wide.

"He's an Alpha," I explained. "Their wolves tend to be bigger than others."

*So I can protect my pack," Nicholas added, looking at me. His previous words echoed in my head. He wanted to protect Elva and I so that I wouldn't need to sacrifice to keep her safe. The reminder warmed me from the inside out, and helped wash away some of my earlier worry.

"Mommy," Elva tumed toward me. "Can I see Miracle?"

I hadn't shifted in a while. Though I often felt Miracle pushing against my thoughts, and she had given me her strength in my times of fear and strife, I had not allowed her free in some time.

This was for many reasons. Not the least of which was that I was scared I might lose myself again. The call of the wild was strong for me in human form. In wolf form, it was nearly overwhelming. I had made a vow not to disappear again. I didn't want to break that vow.

Miracle had stopped pushing me to. We shared the drive to protect and stay with Elva.

"I don't know..." I said now.

"You haven't run off lately," Nicholas said.

*Miracle has been more reserved," I admitted. But I was still nervous. I knew full well how tempting it could be to just give myself over to natural instincts, especially when things were so stressful.

Not much was more stressful than a looming war.

But with Elva's doe eyes on full blast, I felt myself quickly succumbing to her wishes.

"Night, Silver, and I will be here with you," Nicholas said. "If you start to lose control, we can and will intervene." "Okay," I said.

too was hesitant. Though she didn't speak, I could feel her emotions. She didn't want to disappoint Elva any more than I did, nor did she want to

be okay," I assured

acceptance as she stepped forward in my mind. Just like that, I gave

was kneeling in the grass fully human, but in the length of a blink, I was sitting there as a full

strength as Nicholas's, but Elva still looked at me with wide-eyed

She giggled as she pressed her fingers into

only now noticed had begun to tense at the mention of

whispered to each other

here in the grass with

home," Miracle

began to agree

the back of my mind, I

...Piper...

calling my

the voice was not from anywhere around me. Instead, I could feel it coursing through my thoughts. Whatever was calling for me was doing so

my thoughts. "Do you hear

"I do," she replied.

is it?"

know..." She seemed as confused as I was. There should be no one else in our

Nicholas asked. He placed his hand gently on

confusion must have been even

"What happened?" he asked.

strange voice

something, but... it's

pinched together as he looked at me

especially when it regarded something I couldn't explain even if I

gave him a small

frown told me he didn't believe

of the sitting rooms. When I entered, my eyes went wide, taking

the side to make room for a few desks and a massive cork board covered

at something on the map, speaking with Veronica and

glanced at me and then called me over, "Piper.

maps on the cork board was of the

circled. Others, crossed out.