The young Bloodfang female's name was Renna.

She was nineteen, compact and quiet, with the specific quality of someone who had learned to make herself small because being noticed had historically produced problems. She had been classified in the pack health records as magically inconsistent since her first shift at fourteen, and the classification had followed her through five years of pack life the way classifications did, shaping how others responded to her before they had any direct experience of their own.

Marina found her in the eastern section of the camp where she had been assigned to storage organization, which was the kind of work given to wolves who...