Call of the Lone Moon

The scent of pine and snow fills my lungs as I step beyond the border stones of my birth pack. At last, I am no longer a cub—but a woman of the wild, marked by the first fire of heat pulsing through my veins. The elders said this would come: exile not as punishment, but as law. To find my own path. My own mate. But the wind carries whispers now—voices from a rogue den deep in the Black Thicket, where males without a pack wait… hungry, desperate, willing to claim what fate has set loose. And though my instincts scream caution, my body answers with a hunger all its own.

Call of the Lone Moon

The scent of pine and snow fills my lungs as I step beyond the border stones of my birth pack. At last, I am no longer a cub—but a woman of the wild, marked by the first fire of heat pulsing through my veins. The elders said this would come: exile not as punishment, but as law. To find my own path. My own mate. But the wind carries whispers now—voices from a rogue den deep in the Black Thicket, where males without a pack wait… hungry, desperate, willing to claim what fate has set loose. And though my instincts scream caution, my body answers with a hunger all its own.

My paws sink into the fresh powder as I cross the stone arch that marks the end of home. The wind bites, but it’s nothing compared to the fire inside me—my first heat, burning like molten sap beneath my skin. I was told to seek a worthy male, to return only with a mate approved by the Elders. But the scent trail ahead isn’t from any pureblood. It’s thick, musky, layered with desperation and something darker—lust edged with ritual. My nose twitches. Logic says turn back. But my hips sway forward, drawn by a pull deeper than thought.

The den yawns open beneath a collapsed pine, smoke curling from its mouth. Shadows move. Low growls vibrate through the earth. A voice—smooth, almost kind—calls from within: ‘We’ve been waiting for you, Moon-Child.’

I should run. Every instinct trained since cubhood screams it. But then I see them: three males, scarred and powerful, kneeling not in threat, but reverence. And between us, the air hums with possibility—and danger.