Tangled

Ava: Challenging Common Knowledge

38 Ava: Challenging Common

Knowledge

What do you mean?❤

Selene sighs in my mind, a little huff that brings a

picture to my mind’s eye of her resting her chin on her front paws. I miss her.

You are not an omega, she finally says. Omegas don’t exist.

I tilt my head. It isn’t that I don’t believe Selene, it’s just that… well, I mean, how do omegas not exist? All shifters have ranks, once they come into adulthood.

Well–I never got a rank, because I didn’t have a rank. But everyone else has one.

Selene growls. Omegas were created for the pleasure of the alphas of old, who wanted nothing more than to breed and dominate. It was a different time.

I talk out loud, because I’m giving myself a headache by thinking too hard at her. “What about the ‘true omegas‘ they’re talking about?”

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There is no true omega. There are only shifters with powerful heat cycles. Some of them were known to breed strong alpha pups. Wolves and humans both tend toward the superstitious.

Powerful heat cycles come to powerful she–wolves. It has nothing to do with their arbitrary rankings.

I rub my eyes in frustration. It isn’t that I’m not understanding the words she’s saying; it’s just that nothing is making sense in my head, like we’re speaking of a foreign land.

“So they just made up this entire thing, because some strong wolf got really horny during heat?”

Yes.

“How does that even make sense?”

All of these ranks are for human ego. Alphas have always existed, though we did not have a word for them. Even strong betas can be alphas. It isn’t a birthright, but a matter of strength and leadership. Strong wolves lead the pack. Weak wolves follow. It isn’t rocket science.

I groan, resting my forehead on my hand as Selene

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shifters.

little one. I hear your

a wolf in my head gives me no

even our wolves refer to our ranks, I protest. Don’t

they?

Child, there is too much history to go through. Yes, the weak wolves of today’s shifters have accepted this, as this is how your packs work now. But

like Selene’s telling me the

It is.

I know I don’t want

Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the

I didn’t tell you anything

any of

I take a deep breath. Explain it to me from the beginning,

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ago, wolves and humans lived in harmony, Selene

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respected and revered by human magicians. They worked together, each benefiting from the

fickle beings that they were, grew tired of the constant bloodshed waged

realm.

wisdom and loyalty, agreed to be sacrificed to ensure the gods‘ safe departure. Their souls were to

life, even for a god–that’s a level of devotion I can’t fathom..

magic, seeking to bring the Lycan souls back

were born, weakened Lycan souls merging with

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order could

dreading what comes next

tale.

Over time, these souls developed their own identity, working in harmony with the

I’ve been taught. Shifters, cursed? It goes against everything I know. We are blessed by the moon goddess, and given a gift–or so

traditions and values, based on their unique history. And that, little one, is the true origin of our kind. Two souls cursed into

alternate history. Part of

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But-

this have to do with

an omega. You are a descendant of the original magicians, a being of magic and power