Agnes
The pack headquarters’ courtyard was unusually quiet today. Normally, Gertrude and I would be sitting at our usual table, sharing lunch and gossip while the sun warmed our shoulders. But she’d called out sick this morning, which left me eating alone.
I didn’t mind the solitude, though. It gave me a chance to dig deeper into the book on elementals that Elijah and I had checked out from the library yesterday. I’d been too anxious to read it last night, too afraid of what I might find, but the daylight made the whole thing seem less threatening somehow.
I unwrapped my sandwich and balanced the heavy book on my lap, dusting a few pink blossoms off my shoulder that had fallen from the tree above me.
Most of what I’d read so far wasn’t new information. Basic history about h
