Chapter 83 – The Pack That No Longer Feels Safe
Liora's POV
The fortress had always been difficult to navigate.
Not physically.
Socially.
From the day I arrived in Blackmoor, I had been the wolfless Luna nobody wanted. Some ignored me. Some pitied me. Some openly questioned why Kael had chosen me at all.
I had spent months being watched.
Judged.
Measured.
Yet somehow this felt worse.
Much worse.
Because before, they looked at me and saw a disappointment.
Now they looked at me and saw something they didn't understand.
The change happened fast.
Too fast.
By the second day after I woke up in the medical wing, the whispers had spread through every corridor in the fortress.
Nobody said it directly to my face.
They didn't have to.
I heard enough.
The first time, I was walking past a pair of servants carrying fresh linens.
They didn't realize I could hear them.
"I heard it myself," one of them whispered. "She turned into a wolf."
"That's impossible."
