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.

I called to Miracle in my mind. She too was hesitant. Though she didn't speak, I could feel her emotions. She didn't want to disappoint Elva any more

be okay," I assured

calm acceptance as she stepped forward in my mind.

human, but in the length of a

had no near the mass and strength as Nicholas's, but Elva still looked at me with

Elva's cheek. She giggled as she pressed her fingers into my fur. Nicholas smiled

only now noticed had begun to tense at the

they whispered to each

Pack. Family. These were things I felt here in the grass

Miracle

agree but then I

my mind,

...Piper...

someone calling my

turned my head, but no, the voice was not from anywhere around me. Instead, I could feel it coursing

I asked in my thoughts.

"I do," she replied.

it?"

confused as I was. There should be no

asked. He placed his hand gently

form. In this shape, my confusion must

"What happened?" he asked.

strange voice

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

as he

it regarded something I couldn't explain

gave him a small smile.

told me he

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

for a few desks and a massive cork board covered in pictures and

pointed at something on the map, speaking with Veronica

me and then called me over,

did as he instructed. One of the maps on the cork board was of the

circled. Others, crossed out.