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The day my brother, Aiden Silvermane, threw me into the Black Forest to be eaten by wolves was my eighteenth birthday. He stepped on my face, crushing my awakening crystal beneath his boot. "A wolfless freak. You should've died already." My father turned his back, and my mother fainted from crying. Not a single person in the pack spoke up for me. Three years later, a deadly wolf plague swept through Silvermoon Citadel. My brother, the Alpha, knelt outside my healer's hut in the forest with the entire pack behind him, bowing his head in submission. He begged me to come back and save our mother. I looked him over, taking in his sorry state, and let out a quiet laugh. "Why didn't you do that earlier?"