The acceptance letter was eleven words. *Dear Ms. Harrow: You have been selected for the community liaison position.* Evie texted Nara a photograph of it at seven in the morning with no additional message. Just the photograph. The eleven words. Her hands in the shot, holding the paper, slightly shaking. Nara stared at her phone in bay four. Then texted back: *Go to work.* Evie: *I am at work. I'm reading it at my desk in the community clinic.* *Then keep reading it,* Nara said. *And then put it down and see your patients.* A pause. Then: *Question nineteen has an answer. The interaction between the second-phase mechanism and the pack bond's healing acceleration — they ARE related. The bond accelerates the second phase by approximately forty percent in fully bonded lycans versus unbo

