Chapter 34

The full moon was coming.

Everyone could feel it. The air in the Academy buzzed with energy.

Students were restless. Teachers barked orders louder than usual. Training sessions got more intense, more brutal. Students who could already shift practiced their forms in the woods, their howls echoing through the night.

And Talia? Talia was drowning.

'We're going to get caught,' Titi whispered in her mind. 'What are we going to do?'

Talia had no idea, her hands trembled as she sat in class, pretending to pay attention.

She still didn’t know what to do when the full moon came. Master Thomas was still encouraging all the students to...