His mother is a good mentor, but she grows restless here, and now she’s recovering well from her time asleep, and regaining her gifts slowly, she’s made it clear she wishes to return to the lab where the doctor returned and continue her work with him. I think she feels lost here, like she has no one to really focus her time and energy on. Not that I blame her. Her life isn’t what she left behind when she fell to slumber.

The lab became ours after the Santo pack abandoned it and returned to the mountain under the command of their alpha. With Sierra out they had no use...