Chapter 29 New Moon Rising

• Dawn broke over ruins that had once been the coven's certainty made stone, and Riven and I stood at the center of it, the only two figures still fully ourselves while every wolf around us struggled through a transformation neither of us had caused and neither of us could stop.
• I watched a young wolf near the edge of the courtyard collapse to his knees mid-shift, silver light crawling beneath his skin as bones reshaped themselves into something not quite the form he'd worn his entire life. Riven moved toward him without hesitation, kneeling beside the boy, murmuring something too quiet for me to hear, and I understood in that moment exactly why the pack had followed him this far even after everything.
• "Is it going to hurt them," I asked, once the worst of the wolf's transformation settled and Riven returned to my side. "Permanently, I mean."