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.

me confidence, and I called to Miracle in my mind. She too was hesitant. Though she didn't speak, I could feel her

okay," I

forward in my mind. Just like that, I gave myself over to my

the length of a blink, I was

wolf had no near the mass and strength as Nicholas's, but Elva still

she pressed her fingers into my fur. Nicholas smiled

had begun to tense at the mention of my

pack is whole, they whispered to each other

These were things I felt here in the grass with this small

Miracle said in

agree but

of my mind,

...Piper...

someone calling my

from anywhere around me. Instead, I could feel it coursing through my thoughts. Whatever was calling for me was doing so from inside my

I asked in my thoughts.

"I do," she replied.

it?" I

should be no one else in our head but just us

placed his hand gently on my furry shoulder. "What's

In this shape, my confusion must have been

"What happened?" he asked.

the strange voice was gone

something, but... it's impossible,"

pinched together as he

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

him a small

me he

a summons from Julian, requesting my presence in one of the sitting rooms. When I entered, my eyes went

side to make room for a few desks and a massive cork

the map, speaking with Veronica and

me and then called

the cork board was of the entire kingdom. Some

circled. Others, crossed out.