Violet’s POV Before Iris shifted… Deep within her mind. ‘Iris.’ I kept calling out to her as I pushed and forced my way through the mental barrier between us. I know that The Mother has said that she should shift in a year after her body has healed a bit more, but I could feel her emotions. Emotions that she hides from everyone else. She needs me now. I will accept any punishment The Mother wants to give to me later, but Iris needs me. She has always been so tough and so brave. It killed me that she had to go through that hell all alone, and as a pup. Usually we can’t see or feel anything from our human counterparts until they are of age and shift for the first time. That is when we can connect with them and their memories become ours. That was not the case for me. For some reason or