Chapter 3
Someone kind. Oh, he was. Kind and bright and shining. I fell in love, though I did not realize it immediately; I think now that I did fall then, wholly in love in that first moment, in a forest clearing. The moment he saw me. The moment he saved me, and took me home.
The Court mostly left me alone. Andreas gave orders that no one should harm me, and I tried to deserve this generosity. I sometimes forgot myself and growled or flinched if startled; Court is bewildering enough as a human, all courtesy and protocol, clamor and feasts and fancy robes. As a wolf it is even more…more of everything. Every sense. An onslaught.
But I am human too. And I remembered that I was.
And I liked the way I felt when Andreas trusted me.
Some of the braver lords and ladies followed his lead, tr
