The night was almost over and yet still she felt the ache in her chest, the dried tear tracks that ran down her face, and the grass of the glade against her bare arms, the crescent moon casting a pale light over her almost iridescent white skin. She lay with her back on the soft green blades of grass, looking up into the clear sky, full of stars. It all looked so alive to her now. So, so alive now that he was dead. Wasn't that wrong? she thought. Wrong that she saw everything so vividly now that someone she had loved had passed into the great beyond. She felt like the world should be grey right now, not so bright and green and fresh.

A shadow fell over her, bringing her back to the pain, sudden and brutally real, and a voice spoke...

"It is time, Leta," the tall mans voice was deep and heavily accented and sent a chill down her spine despite the warmth of the night and the oncoming dawn. Dew was settling over the clearing and it made the grass cool, cleansing almost. But she still felt empty.

"Time for what?" she asked blankly, gazing up at him. She wasn't interested in anything anymore. She didn't care what happened. She just wanted to lie there and forget the world. She wanted the world to turn grey, the colour it should be now that he was dead.

The mans eyes, black pits in the darkness, found hers, locking onto them. He smiled at her as he knelt down, one arm balanced on his knee. She could see his pearl white teeth glint. There was a gold ring on his finger, inlayed with a black stone. The mark of the wolf pack that called the village home. And as he smiled down at her, something broke through the haze-fear. Of him, of what he was about to tell her. Of something she couldn't explain. She knew she wasn't ready, but she knew she had no choice...

"Time for you to become a full member of the pack. Come, you have a day to prepare for the ceremony."

Fifteen words-Immeasurable, unbearable pain. Break every bone, every full moon, for the rest of your life.

She wasn't ready for that...

This doesn't count in NaNoWriMo as I already wrote this ages ago. All other chapter will 1,667 words or more and will count.

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