Olivia It was immediately obvious that the wolf spirit that came to Avalon was NOT my own wolf. I wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. It gave me some hope that my wolf was still inhabiting my original body. But it also left me feeling despondent. Maybe it was all just catching up with me. It didn’t help that Avalon was fritzing out on me. She was not embracing this experience as I might have hoped. By the time Josiah and my sister turned up at the hospital, she had retreated into her subconscious hiding place and had left me alone to deal with everything, including her new wolf. The good news was, the pain was gone. The fever had been reduced to what I knew would be Avalon’s new normal, since werewolves run hotter than humans, and I felt fine. Better than fin

