Chapter 1
The Crossing
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Nierrah
I wake up to the sounds of cheery birds as the gentle morning breeze lazily makes its way to my small hidden cave. Moist roots from the trees and grass outside dangle like whimsical wind chimes in the dirt ceiling above. I have called this quiet burrow in the forest my home nearly one hundred years. To a human, a century is a lifetime, to a demon however its barely a minutes time for we live long lives.
I set to leave my beloved den and head to the forest for a quick drink in the nearby river. I lap at the cool water as I watch it ripple continuously in its glassy surface. Fur pure white like the snows of winter, a reflection so well recognized stares back at me with emerald eyes. Eyes of which I long to change just to be accepted.
The demon wolves in my pack hardly speak nor let me hunt among them for I am hybrid; a half-breed and a shame. I've never met my father nor I am allowed to see him, for he is Kitsune; a fox demon. Kitsune are never welcomed in wolf grounds. The Alphas in our pack are the only ones allowed to give birth in the pack. That all changed when my mother became pregnant giving birth to me. The alphas in the pack didn't like that my mother paired with a fox let alone bear a pup. The alphas considered to exile my mother from crossing pack law but father spoke to the alphas and vowed to leave so long as we stay. To this day, mother never saw him again.
I am considered to be a freak among the others. Sometimes hearing the others say things behind my back like impure and cursed. Perhaps they are right. Mother usually lets me hunt with her and tells me that I am different but differences are what makes us special. That no longer bothered me. For I now have Esven a wolf and a friend.