Chapter 108

If I leave the self-pity aside and remind myself that on the full moon a few days after that, I felt no new agony ... so no new betrayal, then I know the answer. He must have marked her before the turning ceremony once he was sure I was long gone. Out of sight, out of mind. He didn’t even wait. I sat up that whole night waiting and watching the moon and felt nothing. Slimy dog. It ignites rage, but I don’t know what to do with it. I stare at my limp hands, slowly turning back to human, failing to conjure the milky mist and give up. I guess without something to direct the rage or have something threatening me somehow, I have no idea how to conjure it up properly. Maybe if Colton was standing in front of me … My head falls back as I sigh up at the sky and exhale heavily. Standing in the wood naked, and brain jumps back to reality. I have an opportunity here if I put gifts and rage aside. I just killed a bear, a big one, and his fur shouldn’t go to waste when I’m trying to make rural surv