Chapter Three, Part Four.

The Council trailed behind as the Alpha led me out into the courtyard, beneath the light of the full moon. I stared up at it, marveling at its beauty. A snuffled pulled my attention away. They had all changed into their wolf forms. Aubrey, slightly larger than the others, looked at me for a second, and then took off running. Though it took me a second to register what had just happen, it was instantaneous for the others.
He twisted through the forest, the Council moving in sync with him. I tried to keep up, but I kept stumbling in my new wolf body, clumsy paws scrambling over the forest floor that was so foreign to me. He finally stopped at a clearing that seemed to glow with its own ethereal light. There was a large, opalescent stone in the center, and the wolves circled around it. They left a gap between Aubrey and Adellinde to his left. She looked at me and gestured to me to fill it. There was another gap further away for Celestria, I noticed. So she was still gone. Why was I on his left? Something to do with the Zeta, maybe? I sat. They all stared intently at the stone. Suddently, Aubrey broke the silence, throwing his head back and howling. Rafael picked up the chorus, and the rest joined in the song. I sat silently, not knowing my own voice. Aubrey pawed my shoulder. I turned. He had stopped howling, and was looking at me with a wolfish smile on his face, tail wagging.
He barked quietly. “Sing!”
“I don’t know how,” I whined.
“Neither do I. Don’t think,” he replied. “Feel.”
He looked to the moon, and, once more, threw his head back and howled. I turned my face up to the skies and closed my eyes. Their woven voices struck a chord in my soul that I had never felt before. The music rippled through my blood. And then I opened my mouth, and let the song free. In one pure, unbroken note, I sealed my destiny. I was now a blooded Lycan, and would die as such. I didn’t notice, but the other voices, save one, dropped off. It was just Aubrey and me. And when, out of air, my voice dropped into silence, his continued as if it would never stop. I was still holding my breath when his song spiraled into nothing.