Chapter 24. A Chat with Wolves

SAELYNA

I’ve not seen her before but she grins at me, revealing large wolven fangs and I recall what Veesa said about some of them retaining their lupine features due to trauma. I wonder what happened to her.

“Uh…hello, Keilen. I’m Saelyna.”

She bends her head again. “Love your ears,” she says, pointing, “They’re so…pointy.”

There’s a childishness to her act, but I’m not fooled. She has to be older than eighteen, give or take.

“And I like your…hair. Your eyes as well.”

“Oh.” She blinks and the red is replaced with a dark brown. “I like keeping them on red so I can see ultra-vision. It’s supposed to be an ability only alphas can possess. But what do I know?”

I feel my eyes widen. “You’re an alpha?” I whisper.

She throws her head back and utters a soft laugh that makes me warm up to her. “Alpha, she says. No, Saelyna, alpha is not chosen by trivialities like eye color. It’s by achievements. Or so I hear.”

Something about her tone m