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I couldn't do anything for hours. Just feeling the pain that just kept spreading.

Tyler talked to me the whole time, even though I didn't understand anything that made sense.

Luke kept coming back and checking my vitals, but otherwise seemed pretty lost. Anyway, Patrick didn't come back.

Anyway, luckily for me, or unluckily for me, the pain seemed to be almost at its peak.

Almost my whole body ached as if boiling water was constantly being poured over me.

This pain had not yet reached only a few centimeters of my body.

The moment when the pain had reached the last corner was probably the worst.

But a few minutes later, my body seemed to adjust to the pain, which was now constant. After I don't know how many hours, it was an incredible relief. I finally got some feeling back in my body and was able to perceive my surroundings again.

"Hey.", Tyler whispered in my ear.

Still in pain, I turned my head a little towards him.

Concerned, but also just a little relieved.

"You gave me quite a scare. But according to Patrick, things like that happen. Rarely, but it happens. I had never experienced anything like this myself, let alone ever heard of it.

Isn't it crazy? No one ever told me that something like this can even happen. It's probably also super rare. Only one person in several hundred thousand I guess that sort of thing happens. According to Patrick, there hasn't been a known incident like this in the last 100 years.

In fact, it's so rare it doesn't even have a name."

I would have preferred to roll my eyes now. Somehow it was clear that even something like that could only hit me.

You might think that I was magically attracted to something like that. My whole life felt like it was just a series of things that didn't happen to anyone else but me.

"Would you like a drink?" Tyler asked me.

I just nodded slightly. Movement only increased the pain.

Moments later he held out a glass of water through a straw.

I took a few sips with difficulty

. "We've got to go right away."

I looked at him with wide eyes. where to go

"In less than an hour the full moon will appear on the horizon."

I choked on my water and started to cough.

How could that be?

Had I really been in this strange state for over twenty-four hours?

"Don't worry. Now I can nothing can go wrong." Tyler tried to calm me down, but it didn't really work.

We stay in our room for a moment. Then Tyler kissed my forehead again and then carried me downstairs.

We left the pack house like this, headed straight for the trees.

After just a few steps into the forest, when I looked back briefly, I could no longer see the pack house.

"The pack meets in the forest. It's just more protected there than on the open meadow. Especially the first few times you transform, you're pretty vulnerable during that time because of the duration." Tyler explained to me quietly. It wasn't long before we

reached the pack, which was already in large part present .

Near the twins, Tyler lowered me to the ground so that my back was against a tree.

"Hey Lily.", the two greeted me quietly.

Somehow everyone here only spoke quietly to each other. There was almost something reverent about it, that hardly anything was louder than the nature around us.

Even if it's right now towards evening anyway was quiet.

The only thing that bothered this devotional atmosphere a bit in my eyes was that more and more people I saw were naked.

Only then did I notice, however, that the werewolves always undressed and were naked when they were transformed.

Say I would be too naked...

I looked around uncomfortably.

Everyone here seemed excited for the upcoming full moon. Anyway, I didn't see anyone who seemed as uncomfortable as I was.

But I wasn't the only one watching people.

As time went by, I noticed that a few werewolves kept looking at me.

A look at Tyler and the twins also showed me that they weren't taking their eyes off me either.

To be honest, that worried me a little and I tried to look questioningly in the direction of the three so that maybe one of them could explain it to me.

Tyler shifted first. He took the few steps that separated him from me, sat down next to me and pulled me a little closer to him.

"Don't worry about them," Tyler whispered in our ears, "They're just keeping an eye on you, since as a new werewolf, you're particularly sensitive to your first full moon, making it the best sign of when the moon will rise over the horizon We, who can constantly transform, are used to a constant desire to transform and, as long as the moon is not visible, can usually only feel it a few minutes later.In addition, you are Luna, or you will soon you have transformed for the first time and nobody wants to be so audacious as to start their transformation before you. Even if they will all complete the transformation into a wolf well before you, even if they will only start their transformation after you."

Still in pain, I leaned my head against Tyler's chest.

So everyone was waiting for me to finally start the transformation.

"Just try to let it happen as soon as it starts. If you fight it mentally too hard, it will only delay the whole thing and make it even more painful than it should be." Tyler whispered back in my ear.

After that, it was quiet for a moment.

It just kind of felt like the calm before Storm.

When after a few more minutes nothing had happened, I wanted to ask Tyler again so that he could maybe give me an estimate of how much longer I would have to wait. But it never came to that.

Just as I was about to lift my head, I heard a loud crack. Within a few fractions of a second, my pain level increased many times over, but decreased somewhat after a few moments, in contrast to my previous pain. There was a second crack, and a third. Each time followed by severe pain.

In a panic, I wanted to hold on to Tyler, who, however, freed himself from my grip and carefully laid me down on the floor and calmly stroked my head.

"Keep calm Lily. I know it hurts really bad, but try to breathe deeply. The more relaxed you are, the quicker it'll be over."

Meanwhile, the breaking of my bones that were making the cracking noises seemed endless and I felt my own body spiraling out of control.

I wanted to scream and thrash , but my body ached so much that any movement, intentional or not, far

outweighed any pain the bite had caused so far several places no longer withstand the pressure.

When a loud crack came from my head, I couldn't help but squint and hoped that the whole thing would just end quickly.

But it all just seemed to never end. Almost every second you could hear a crack, until it was suddenly over.