Chapter 3. Don’t Change

The people treat me with respect and love, and I’m growing as a mother to all. By the side of my born leader, him showing me how to command without fear because he’s nothing like his father as alpha. He listens to his people and walks among them as though he’s never been any different from them. He’s hands-on and involved with the building works, overseeing every detail and waking day. We join patrols, make sure we know everything there is to know about the sick, the school, and the community’s problems, and rectify them as best we can.

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. She feels lost here, like she has no one to 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 San