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ALINA

“Pity”

There was something that I liked about Aurora that didn’t waste words on formalities when they might get in the way.

I was on my way to disturb her again the next day she was already in sight when I suddenly heard a sound.

Aurora’s head snapped toward the sound, her body moving instinctively before her mind could catch up.

“What’s happening?” she asked, already stepping away.

I followed, my pulse quickening as a faint orange glow lit up the

horizon.

The flicker of flames danced against the sky, and my mind raced

to make sense of it.

This wasn’t part of any plan. The devised chaos like this only worked when it was controlled.

I soon arrived at the village center, where wolves were by now struggling to put out the fire.

A big sack of hay near one of the store sheds had gone up in

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flame, lashing hungrily with their tongues of fire against the wooden structure.

“Get water!” Dane yelled above the noise of uproar, and his commanding appearance snapped the wolves into action.

In an instant, Aurora was at his side, her voice piercing the noise, sharp with instructions.

“Form a line from the well! Move, move!”

I hung to the edge of the chaos, watching the scene unfold.

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enough to sow panic among the pack. The perfect

trying to restrain the fire, and I slipped

steps were

left untouched by the fire suspiciously so I went to the largest, its

damp, smelling of earth and wood, filling

corner where a

covered in dust.

with a practiced hand and found

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of letters, tucked

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light filtering through the cracks on the walls

trace the rough handwriting on the topmost

scanned over words, my eyes narrowing to

“Foolish boy,” I grumbled.

incriminating letters in

far as anybody who came into it

otherwise and I now had what I needed to stay one

fire was smothered, and the wolves, relieved, were scattering.

down but her

in our response,” she said, her voice

tested, and we came through

werewolves nodded their heads toward her

response.

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to disperse, Aurora’s eyes caught mine, and half of me expected her

she turned her attention again

the darkness once more, my steps

the way Aurora commanded her pack, the way they looked to her for guidance. It was admirable, in a way. But it also

determination to protect them, she would never

it

would make

through what was left of the murmuring crowd, the words

this fully,”

rest assured, we’ll find how it came about and make

standing beside her, his hand on her shoulder,

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