ELINA The rays of sunlight that sip through the window and fall directly on my face, wake me up from a deep sleep in which all kinds of scenarios were interspersed in my dreams , from memories of my childhood with my adoptive family, to moments within the competition, but they were all distorted and changed in strange ways, even there was a moment in one of my dreams when I ripped off the front leg of one of the wolves with my huge fangs and spat it out in disgust , only to realize instantly that the paw of that wolf was my brother Elijah , and in other dreams, the face of my adoptive mother appeared in a body that was not hers and wearing elegant clothes as she strolled through my real mother's room in the palace. I wake up shaken and with my forehead beaded with sweat, only to re