NEVA POV
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Pria stood at the door of her family's house to watch us go.
She had the specific quality of someone who'd been through something large and was still taking inventory of themselves on the other side of it — checking that they were all still there, that nothing had been lost in the moving. I recognized it from the inside.
"The first few days," I said to her, before we left. "Your senses are going to feel — magnified. Sounds, smells, light. It's not permanent, it's adjustment. Your wolf is learning the world at full volume for the first time."
She nodded, absorbing it.
"And your father," I said. "Whatever you decide about him — take the time. You don't have to decide today or tomorrow or in any particular order."
She looked at the property line where Vane was standing, st
