#Chapter 101: The Return

Lauren I woke up gasping. My body felt like it had been flung from the stars, my skin tingling as if it had been touched by something far beyond the realm of reality. The dream clung to me, sticky as cobwebs. The Moon Goddess had been there, her great silver form shifting between wolf and woman, whispering words I didn’t fully understand. Our blood. I pressed my palms against my face, steadying my breath. It wasn’t the first time I’d dreamed of her, but this one had felt different. Had Abigail shared another this time? She had walked in my room before… The weight of it lingered in my bones, a feeling I couldn’t shake even as the morning light bled through the windows. But I didn’t have time for dreams. Shoving the covers aside, I forced myself out of bed and it wasn’t long till I was back at the hospital, into the cold, sterile walls of the lab—doing the only thing I knew how to do. The microscope’s glass was smudged with my fingerprints from hours before, a silent reminder of