Artemisia I wake up feeling like I’m burning up from the inside. Clasping the sheets I’m entangled in, I draw a few steady breaths trying to calm myself and reduce the pain. What the hell? I was asking myself how long it would take me to get into heat when they would keep playing around like this, but I didn’t think it would start so soon. Maybe they thought it would be easier for me to take all of them if I went into heat. And seeing that it’s three mates, the time span for a she-wolf to go into heat might be way shorter. And still… This feels different from what has been described to me by my mother. Instead of feeling that overpowering desire, I feel pain. Excruciating, all-consuming, burning pain that seems to come from inside of me. As a medical practitioner, I try to