Chapter 52. I Am the Red Wolf

Lyra POV

“Do you want to try tonight?”

I look away from Cassian’s hopeful gaze. It’s been two weeks since we were attacked and I’d shifted all of a sudden, so long that Aisla’s wounds have actually healed, for the most part.

And every day as we get close to stopping to camp for the night, Cassian has asked me this same question. But each time, I’ve given him the same answer.

“I’m not ready.”

“The further we go, the more likely it becomes that we’ll run into more rogues or maybe another problem,” he says, just like he does every day. “It would be better if you were used to shifting before that happens.”

I’m about to answer when my mother speaks up from the back seat, which she doesn’t usually do in this conversation. I guess she figures she doesn’t have