Arin's First Shift
**Arin's POV**
The pain hit me like lightning. I screamed and fell to my knees as something inside me tried to tear its way out. It felt like my bones were breaking and remaking themselves all at once.
"Arin!" Kael dropped his sparkling sword and rushed to my side. "What's happening to you?"
I couldn't answer. The pain was too much. My whole body was on fire, and I could feel something wild and powerful clawing at my insides, screaming to be free.
"She's shifting," Rowan said, his voice filled with wonder and fear. "But this isn't normal."
"It's too early," Jaxon added, kneeling beside me. "First shifts don't happen during danger like this."
Another wave of pain fell over me, and I felt my spine starting to stretch. This was it. After eighteen years of wondering if I'd ever have a wolf, it was finally happening. But why now? Why when everything was coming apart?
