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06:54I looked at mom, hopefully.
06:56If she found me dead, would she be sad?
06:59Would she regret it?
07:01She won't starve.
07:03She is a werewolf, not a human pup.
07:06This whole fake sick for attention thing is out of control.
07:10I laughed bitterly.
07:11Mom wasn't wrong.
07:13Werewolves heal.
07:14But I hadn't been able to in a long time.
07:17Last winter, the choker left bruises that stayed for days.
07:21That hadn't happened before.
07:22I reached for my wolf.
07:23She was still there, but the warmth never came.
07:26She was too hungry, just like me.
07:30Mom never noticed.
07:32She only ever looked at my neck for one thing.
07:35The gem.
07:36And whether it was red or green.
07:38Mom pushed open my door.
07:40Didn't even turn on the light.
07:42Just for a second, her eyes flashed gold.
07:44Her wolf might have known.
07:46Mom didn't listen.
07:47In the dim glow from the hallway, she saw me slumped over my desk.
07:51I looked like a skeleton.
07:53Hadn't moved.
07:55Still putting on an act?
07:57You're ten years old, not five.
08:00Grow up.
08:01Mom, I'm not playing.
08:03I'm dead.
08:04Look at me.
08:05Touch me.
08:06I'm freezing.
08:07She couldn't hear me.
08:08She only believed what she wanted to see.
08:11Emma squeezed past her, held up her choker with that smug little grin.
08:15Look, my gem is green.
08:17Stella's is still red.
08:19She's lying, even in her sleep.
08:22That's my good girl.
08:23Ignore the liar.
08:24Let her stay there.
08:26Maybe she'll learn how to be honest.
08:28Should we at least put her in bed?
08:30It's freezing.
08:32Put her in bed?
08:33Look at that red gem, still lying.
08:36Come on, leave her.
08:37We have to visit Grandma tomorrow.
08:40The door locked again.
08:42I floated next to my corpse.
08:44My wolf curled silently at my feet.
08:46Staring at that single point of red light in the darkness.
08:50Mom, if you'd just stepped closer.
08:52If you'd just touched my hand.
08:54You'd know I was ice cold.
08:56But you didn't.
08:56You believed the choker.
08:58Not the daughter you carried for nine months.
09:01That night, a rat crawled out of my empty cabinet.
09:04I used to scream whenever I saw rats.
09:06But now, I just floated by the ceiling.
09:09Watching it scurry across my dead body.
09:11The rat bit into my toe.
09:13I didn't feel anything.
09:15My wolf charged at it anyway.
09:17And passed right through, landing on the other side.
09:20She turned back to look at me.
09:22Confused.
09:23Lost.
09:24I pulled her close and buried my face in the fur of her back.
09:28It's okay.
09:29You can't feel it anymore.
09:30It'll be over soon.
09:32She let out one low growl.
09:34Then went still against me.
09:36Finally.
09:37No more pain.
09:39For either of us.
09:40The next morning, sunlight streamed through the window.
09:43No warmth reached my body.
09:45In the kitchen, I could hear mom making breakfast.
09:48The smell of roasted meat crept under my door.
09:51My favorite.
09:52But mom always said liars don't deserve meat.
09:55So I only ever got steamed vegetables.
09:57She was clanging the pots extra loud on purpose.
10:00Trying to tempt me out.
10:02Trying to make me give in and apologize for things I never did.
10:06In the old days, I might have caved.
10:08I might have confessed to anything for one bite of roasted meat.
10:12But I don't need food anymore.
10:14Stella still hasn't come out yet?
10:16Dad asked, reading the pack notices.
10:19She is so stubborn.
10:20She can eat or not.
10:22I don't care.
10:25Emma walked to my door and made a big show of sniffing the air.
10:29Then she screamed dramatically.
10:32Mom!
10:33Stella's room smells like poop!
10:35Did she poop in there?
10:37I floated by the door, watching my sister with a bitter smile.
10:41My wolf sat beside me, ears flat, eyes low.
10:45The hearth was burning hot.
10:47After just one night, my body started to rot.
10:51Mom stormed over, pounding on the door.
10:54Stella!
10:55Who does that?
10:56The toilet is right there!
10:58Did you shit on the floor to spite me?
11:00I remembered being six.
11:02I had food poisoning.
11:04Couldn't make it to the toilet in time.
11:07Mom didn't help me clean up.
11:09She made me stand outside, pointed at me, and told the neighbors.
11:12Look at this.
11:14She's such a mess.
11:15She can't even use the toilet herself.
11:18Now she thought I was dirty again.
11:19Leave her.
11:20Let her sit in her own stink.
11:23But Dad stood up, frowning.
11:25That smells really bad.
11:27I should check.
11:28Could it be a dead rat or something?
11:31My heart, if I still had one, leapt.
11:34Dad, please, open the door.
11:37I'm right here.
11:38Just turn the handle and you'll see I'm not moving.
11:41I waved my transparent arms frantically.
11:44My wolf ran straight to my bedroom door, willing Dad to open it.
11:49Dad's hand touched the door handle.
11:51His hand froze.
11:52Someone was pounding at the front door.
11:54A pack elder.
11:55Urgent business.
11:56Dad's face went pale.
11:57He grabbed his cloak.
11:59The border.
11:59There's an emergency.
12:01He was already out the door.
12:03I froze.
12:04So close.
12:05One second away.
12:06If that knock had come one second later, I would have been found.
12:09Maybe then, I wouldn't have rotted alone.
12:12That afternoon, Mom took Emma to the pack market.
12:14The house was empty except for my corpse.
12:16When they came back that evening, loaded down with food and gifts from the market, the smell
12:21had gotten worse.
12:22Mom gagged the second she walked in.
12:25Stella, are you trying to turn this place into a den of inequity?
12:28She didn't even open my door.
12:30Just grabbed cloth strips and sealed the gap at the bottom.
12:33If you want to stay in there and make disgusting stew zoos, don't stink up my house.
12:37She patted her hands together, satisfied, then went to prepare dinner.
12:41I stared at that sealed door.
12:43My wolf pressed her nose against it and whimpered once.
12:45So that's it.
12:46I'm worth less than a venison dinner.
12:48By day three, even the cloth strips couldn't contain the smell.
12:51Mom was arranging fresh wildflowers, trying to cover it up.
12:55But the stench of death is unmistakable.
12:57Sweet.
12:58Rotten.
12:59Oily.
12:59She cut a rose stem too hard.
13:01A thorn pierced her hand.
13:03She snapped.
13:03In her mind, I was doing this on purpose, not bathing, poop on the floor, hiding dead
13:09rats in my room, all to piss her off, all to defy her authority as Luna.
13:14Stella!
13:15She grabbed a rolling pin from the kitchen, stormed toward my room.
13:19I'm done with you, you disgusting little brat.
13:22Time you learned what real pain feels like.
13:24I floated in front of her, waving my arms desperately.
13:28Don't come in, Mom!
13:30Please!
13:31Please!
13:32Even though she never loved me, I didn't want her to see me like that.
13:36But she walked right through me, ripped the cloth strips off, jammed the spare key into
13:41the lock.
13:42The door flew open.
13:43The smell hit her like a wall.
13:45She stumbled back, retching.
13:46Stella!
13:47What are you doing?
13:49She saw me, still slumped over the desk, back turned, not moving.
13:53To her, this was the ultimate rebellion.
13:55I'm talking to you!
13:57She marched over, raised the rolling pin, but stopped.
14:01She wanted to see my face first.
14:03Wanted to see my...
14:05Get up!
14:05She grabbed the back of my shirt, grabbed my skin.
14:08The moment she touched me, she froze.
14:10Through the thin fabric, her hand didn't feel warm flesh.
14:13She felt cold, hard, dead meat.
14:16The kind of cold that seeps into your bones.
14:19What?
14:19But momentum carried her forward.
14:21She yanked.
14:22Crash.
14:23My body, stiff as a board, toppled backward, taking the chair with it.
14:27And there was my face.
14:28Blue-black.
14:29Eyes bulging.
14:30Features twisted in agony.
14:32Dried foam and blood crusted around my mouth.
14:35Around my blackened neck, the Verity choker hung lifeless.
14:38The gem dark.
14:40No red.
14:41No green.
14:41Just silence.
14:43My journal slid off the desk.
14:44Fell open at mom's feet.
14:46The last page stared up at her.
14:48Mom, my stomach really hurts.
14:50The choker is wrong.
14:52I'm not lying.
14:53Please don't punish me.
14:54Mom screamed.
14:55Not a wolf's howl.
14:56A raw, guttural shriek that tore through her throat.
15:00She stumbled backward, slammed into the bookshelf.
15:04A clay pot shattered.
15:06But she didn't seem to feel the pain.
15:08She just stared at me.
15:10Eyes wide.
15:11Unblinking.
15:13No.
15:14No, no, no.
15:15This is not real.
15:17Stella, get up.
15:17Stella, get up.
15:18Get up.
15:19I'm not mad anymore.
15:21Stop scaring me.
15:23Scare me again.
15:23Her hand reached out, trembling, to touch my arm.
15:27The second her skin made contact with my corpse,
15:30she recoiled like she'd been burned.
15:32That cold was too real.
15:34Lisa from next door heard the screaming
15:36and went straight to the pack healer.
15:39When she saw what was in my room,
15:40she collapsed in the gate.
15:42Within the hour, heavy boots on the floorboards.
15:45The pack healer and a handful of pack warriors
15:47crowding the entrance.
15:49Mom sat on the floor,
15:51a warrior's hand on her shoulder.
15:53She's speaking it.
15:54She's always lying.
15:57It doesn't lie.
15:59I'm just teaching her.
16:00No one responded.
16:02They all looked at her like she was a monster.
16:04The pack healer crouched next to my body.
16:07He muttered under his breath.
16:09Severe malnutrition, organ failure.
16:12This puppy has been starved for at least a month.
16:14He carefully tried to remove the Verity choker.
16:17But it had fused.
16:19Years of tightening had pressed the leather deep into the skin of my neck.
16:23Damn it.
16:24He had to use tools to pry it off.
16:27Even dead, my soul flinched.
16:29My wolf lifted her head and...
16:32Long.
16:33Raw.
16:35Desperate.
16:35The kind of howl that should have shaken the walls.
16:38No one heard it.
16:40No one flinched.
16:41We were already dead.
16:42A warrior picked up my journal.
16:44Started reading.
16:45His face went from neutral to horrified.
16:49Mom's eyes locked onto that book.
16:51That's her confession.
16:52She admits she lied.
16:54Look, she wrote it herself.
16:58The warrior pushed her back.
17:00Wrapped the journal in cloth and took it.
17:02We'll report it to the council.
17:04That's when dad got home.
17:06He saw the pack healer and the pack warriors crowding the doorway.
17:10Saw the body wrap being carried out.
17:13Saw the long cord that sealed away my entire life.
17:18His legs gave out.
17:19He collapsed on the doorstep.
17:21Emma stood nearby, sobbing in confusion.
17:24She pointed at the discolored Verity choker on the table.
17:27Why does Stella have a black collar?
17:29And I have a green one.
17:31See?
17:32She held up her neck.
17:34The gem blinked its steady green.
17:36It was grotesque.
17:38The council elders arrived before dawn.
17:41Mom straightened when she saw them.
17:43Even now, even with my body three days cold and rotting,
17:47her luna instincts kicked in.
17:49She lifted her chin, squared her shoulders.
17:52It didn't work today.
17:54They started questioning Mom in the living room.
17:56Mom grabbed the Verity choker off the table like it was a lifeline.
18:00Test it!
18:02That choker proved she was lying.
18:04Red gem means lie.
18:07I never abused her!
18:09The choker told me!
18:11I was just educating her!
18:14The council elders looked at her like she'd lost her mind.
18:18The pup shows signs of extreme malnutrition.
18:21Months of starvation.
18:24Aphelion.
18:25Multiple old injuries consistent with prolonged...
18:28That's dis-discipline!
18:30That's teaching her to be honest!
18:32Then, she did something insane.
18:35You don't believe me?
18:37Fine.
18:38I'll wear it.
18:41Watch.
18:42It'll be green.
18:43The leather pressed against her skin.
18:46Cold.
18:47Sticky.
18:48That was my blood.
18:49She took a deep breath.
18:51Tried to calm herself.
18:52She needed to prove she was innocent.
18:55Needed to prove her way of raising an alpha heir was right.
18:58She held up the gem, eyes wild.
19:01Listen.
19:02I'm Rachel.
19:03I'm Stella's mother.
19:05This is the truth.
19:07The absolute truth.
19:08The gem flashed red.
19:11Mom's confident expression shattered.
19:15I said truth.
19:17I am Rachel.
19:18I never abused her.
19:21I did it for her own good.
19:24I love her.
19:26And suddenly, she remembered.
19:28Me.
19:29Ten years old.
19:31Gasping as the choker tightened around my throat.
19:34Biting my lip so I wouldn't make a sound.
19:36Is this what it felt like?
19:39Why is it red?
19:40I am telling the truth.
19:42Turn green.
19:43You're broken.
19:44You're setting me up.
19:45But the gem kept flashing.
19:47Like it was mocking her.
19:49You're a liar.
19:50You're a liar.
19:52You're a liar.
19:53Enough.
19:55This is just a bloodstone.
19:57I've seen it before.
19:58It changes color with body heat.
20:01Fear.
20:02Pain.
20:03Anything that makes your heart race.
20:05Temperature rises.
20:06It burns red.
20:08That's all it does.
20:10No witch magic.
20:11Never was.
20:13Think about your daughter.
20:15Ruptured appendix.
20:16Organ failure.
20:17The pain must have been unbearable.
20:20She was terrified.
20:21And what did you see?
20:23A red gem.
20:24So you punished her more.
20:26Which made her more scared.
20:29Which made her temperature rise.
20:32Which made the stone turn redder.
20:36You are Luna.
20:38You are supposed to protect every wolf in this pack.
20:42You couldn't even protect your own daughter.
20:44You ignored her cries for help.
20:47You starved your daughter to death.
20:50Mom's world collapsed.
20:52She sat there.
20:53Staring at the flashing gem on her own net.
20:56And finally understood.
20:57For ten years.
20:58Every red light wasn't because I was lying.
21:01It was because I was scared.
21:03Scared of her anger.
21:06Scared of being misunderstood.
21:08Scared of eating food that made me sick.
21:11I was in pain.
21:12Pain that made my heart race and cold sweat pour down my face.
21:17I was desperate.
21:18Desperate for a hug.
21:20For her to hold me the way she held Emma.
21:22Every signal from my frightened heart she had interpreted as proof of my lies.
21:35She tried to shift.
21:37Fur rippling across her skin.
21:39Bones cracking.
21:40But the leather cinched harder around her throat the moment her neck began to change.
21:45She snapped back into human form.
21:48Gasping.
21:49I can't get it off.
21:51Stella take it back.
21:53I'm sorry.
21:54It's all my fault.
21:56This little bit of choking and she was already breaking.
22:00Mom.
22:01I suffered for ten years.
22:04The council elders needed evidence for judgment.
22:07So they opened my journal in front of my parents.
22:11February 14th.
22:12Sunny.
22:13Mom put celery on my plate.
22:15I'm allergic.
22:16My throat swells.
22:18I can't breathe.
22:18I said I can't eat it.
22:20But because I was scared of making her angry, my body ran hot.
22:25The gem flashed red.
22:26The choker tightened.
22:29Mom said I was picky.
22:31Lying.
22:31Made me eat the whole plate.
22:33That night, I threw up blood.
22:36My throat felt like it was on fire.
22:38I shifted to ease my pain.
22:40Mom saw it and said I'd snuck berry juice.
22:43That I was faking.
22:45The choker tightened for ten more minutes.
22:49Mom's hand flew to her mouth.
22:51She was shaking violently.
22:53She remembered that.
22:55She really did think it was berry juice.
22:57She didn't even look closely.
22:59Just turned away to read Emma a bedtime story.
23:03That was blood from a swollen, torn throat.
23:07June 1st.
23:08Pup's Day.
23:10Emma shredded Mom's ceremonial cloak.
23:12Emma's heart is always calm.
23:14Her gem stays green.
23:16I tried to explain, but I was scared of being hit.
23:20My body ran hot.
23:22Red gem.
23:23Choker tightened for ten minutes.
23:25It hurt so bad.
23:27But I didn't cry.
23:29Because crying makes your body run hotter.
23:31And Mom thinks that means you're not sorry.
23:34So, I held my breath.
23:36Pretended it didn't hurt.
23:38Mom said,
23:39See?
23:40She doesn't even blink.
23:42She's definitely faking it.
23:44Dad couldn't take it anymore.
23:45This man, who had always put the pack before his own family, chose duty over his daughter for ten years.
23:52You monster!
23:54What did you do?
23:55That was your daughter!
23:58You treated her like a stray!
24:00Blood at the corner of her mouth.
24:02Not my fault.
24:03Not my fault.
24:04It's her.
24:05It's Emma.
24:06Emma's gem was always green.
24:09Emma was a good one.
24:10If it wasn't for that green light making me trust her, I wouldn't have believed the red light so much.
24:16This is Emma's fault.
24:18That little princess everyone had protected, one of the council elders walked over, gently removed the green Verity Choker from
24:25her neck, took out a blade, pried the gem loose right there.
24:30It rolled onto the table, still glowing green.
24:34Steady.
24:35Unchanged.
24:36The elder picked up the stone.
24:38A glowstone.
24:39That is all.
24:40Your younger daughter's choker was always going to shine green.
24:44No matter what she said, did, or lied about, it would never change.
24:51Your so-called Verity Choker was a fraud.
24:55That was her truth for ten years.
24:57That was the evidence she used to convict me.
25:00A common glowstone that put me in hell while Emma lived in paradise.
25:05So I wasn't a liar.
25:06I laughed.
25:08Laughed until I cried.
25:10Turns out, ghosts could cry too.
25:12The elder turned to the last page of the journal.
25:15His voice broke.
25:16The handwriting was a mess.
25:18Clearly written while dying.
25:20Mom, if I die, will the choker stop glowing red?
25:23Or if it turns green, will you hug me then?
25:26I'm not lying.
25:27I couldn't heal myself anymore.
25:30My stomach hurts so much.
25:32Like knives.
25:34Next life, please don't make me wear the choker.
25:37Please.
25:37I just want to be a normal pup.
25:39I want to eat mom's roasted meat.
25:42Mom stared at the broken glowstone on the table.
25:44That truth magic she trusted without question?
25:47A worthless stone.
25:49Because of that stone, she spoiled Emma for ten years.
25:52Because of that cursed red light, she tortured me for ten years.
26:00Mom started laughing.
26:02Her voice cracking in every sound.
26:05Worse than crying.
26:07Fake!
26:08All fake!
26:11I killed my most honest pup.
26:14And I worshipped a liar!
26:17She'd lost her mind.
26:19For real this time.
26:20My death became the talk of the entire pack.
26:23Lisa, the neighbor who had sent for the pack healer,
26:25told everyone what she'd seen.
26:28Every wolf knew by morning.
26:30Luna had starved her own daughter to death.
26:34Monster!
26:35Murderer!
26:36She doesn't deserve to be Luna!
26:39Stones flew at our door.
26:41The word killer carved into the wall.
26:44The council convened within the day.
26:46The verdict was swift.
26:48Dad lost his alpha title.
26:50No wolf would follow him now.
26:51My grandfather, the former alpha, read out the judgment himself.
26:56He didn't look at his son once.
26:58Dad walked out of the council hall and never looked back.
27:02He took Emma and left the pack that same night.
27:05Emma was a bad seed, sure.
27:07But she was still his blood.
27:09Before they left, Emma tried to take her green choker.
27:13Dad stomped on it.
27:14Why the hell would you want that piece of trash?
27:17Emma cried as he dragged her away.
27:19Mom got out of the dungeon.
27:21The healer said she had lost her mind.
27:23The council locked her in the home instead.
27:26The one that still smelled like death.
27:28Her mental state deteriorated fast.
27:31She refused to take off the red choker.
27:33She would tighten it herself whenever the guilt got too heavy.
27:37She said choking was the only thing that eased it.
27:40It was her self-imposed punishment.
27:42I floated in the darkness.
27:44My wolf curled beside me, watching her unravel day after day.
27:48She'd talk to the empty corner where I used to stand.
27:51Stella, I brought you some food.
27:53No celery today.
27:54It's all roast.
27:56Just how you like it.
27:58But there was no food.
27:59There was nothing.
28:00Just her hands, cupped around air.
28:03She'd pretend to set a plate down.
28:05Her hands shook.
28:06The gem flashed red.
28:08She was anxious.
28:10Guilty.
28:10Falling apart.
28:12She smiled, but her eyes were empty.
28:14The gem is red.
28:16Mom is lying.
28:18Liars don't deserve food.
28:20She pulled the choker tight with her own hands.
28:22Let it choke her.
28:23Her body convulsed against the cold floor.
28:26It hurts so much.
28:28Is this how Stella felt?
28:30I'm sorry.
28:32Mom started reenacting my diary entries.
28:34I couldn't eat celery because of my allergy.
28:37So she forced herself to eat spoiled food until she vomited blood, then swallowed it back down.
28:44I was locked in isolation.
28:47I was locked in isolation.
28:48So she locked herself in my old room, lights off, and bowed to my portrait until her forehead bled.
28:54Over and over.
28:56Blood on the floor.
28:58Late at night, she'd see the red glow of the bloodstone reflected on the wall.
29:02To her, it looked like my bloody eyes were watching.
29:06She kept punishing herself.
29:08The wounds healed slower and slower.
29:11Her wolf, exhausted by months of self-torture, slowly fell into a deep sleep.
29:17Mom didn't care.
29:18She scrawled on the back of my journal.
29:20I'm sorry.
29:21I was wrong.
29:23Red means pain.
29:25Red means love.
29:26Please come back and say it hurts, hurts one more time.
29:30I'll save you.
29:31I promise.
29:32Too bad I'm dead.
29:33Dead wolves can't cry for help.
29:35Eventually, the new alpha intervened.
29:38Mom's self-harm had gone too far.
29:40She'd nearly choked herself to death with her own hands.
29:44He ordered her to move to a small hut at the far edge of the village.
29:48Locked from the outside.
29:49Someone posted to watch her day and night.
29:52She was the strangest woman they'd ever seen.
29:55Nobody knew where she'd found it.
29:57A frayed red cord tied around her own neck.
30:00Her homemade choker.
30:02If anyone tried to remove it, she'd snap at them.
30:06Teeth bared, snarling, wild-eyed.
30:09Don't touch me!
30:11Stella's watching.
30:12She'll be angry if you take it!
30:15Every time the guard called her name and brought her food,
30:18Mom would grab the red cord and pull it tight against her own throat.
30:22Convulsing.
30:23Screaming.
30:25Red light!
30:25Red light!
30:27Don't punish!
30:28Punish me!
30:29I'll eat!
30:29I'll eat!
30:31Even if the food was scalding hot,
30:33she'd gulp it down, burning her throat.
30:36Wouldn't spit it out.
30:38She was reenacting my final moments.
30:40Living my hell on repeat.
30:42Years later, Emma grew up.
30:44Without guidance and with a trail of shame behind her.
30:47She drifted from pack to pack, stealing to survive.
30:51No one would take her in.
30:53When she ran out of options, she remembered.
30:56Mom was still alive.
30:58She slipped back into the Silverman pack under the cover of night.
31:01Not for love, for money.
31:04Hey, crazy lady!
31:06Dad's dead!
31:07Give me whatever you've been hiding!
31:10Emma stood there, face hard, eyes full of contempt.
31:13She looked at Mom's hollow, broken form and spat on the floor.
31:18It's disgusting.
31:20Give me what I want, or I'll send you to meet your daughter.
31:24For a moment, Mom's cloudy eyes cleared.
31:27She looked at Emma, and suddenly remembered.
31:30That choker.
31:31That always green glowstone.
31:34That decade of deception.
31:37It's you!
31:38You lie!
31:39You're the green light that wasn't there!
31:41You killed Stella!
31:43Give her back to me!
31:45Give her back to me!
31:46The last shred of maternal love twisted into something feral.
31:51Mom lunged, grabbed Emma by the throat.
31:54You should have died!
31:56Not her!
31:58You!
32:00Emma thrashed, but couldn't break free from a madwoman's grip.
32:04The guards rushed in, pulled her off.
32:06Emma stumbled out of the hut, terrified.
32:09They're all insane!
32:11She bolted into the forest.
32:13She didn't get far.
32:15Rogues.
32:16The kind that haunted the borderlands.
32:18Preying on anyone foolish enough to run through the trees alone at night.
32:22Emma never saw them coming.
32:25By the time she did, it was too late.
32:27She survived.
32:28Barely.
32:29Both legs shattered beyond repair.
32:32She'd never walk again.
32:34Meanwhile, Mom was strapped to her cot, staring at the ceiling.
32:38Tears streaming.
32:39In her dreams, she finally saw me.
32:42I was ten again.
32:43No choker.
32:44White dress.
32:45Smiling.
32:47Mom!
32:47She reached for me, crying with joy.
32:50Stella!
32:52But the moment her hands touched me, I burst into ash.
32:56No!
32:56She woke up screaming.
32:59If she'd been wearing that choker, it would have been blood red.
33:02Eternal torment.
33:04I stood in the void, watching it all.
33:06Mom strapped to her bed.
33:08Emma in a wheelchair, begging on the market.
33:11Dad, drunk and dead in some gutter.
33:13I felt nothing.
33:15No satisfaction.
33:16Just a flat, dead calm.
33:19My wolf padded over quietly.
33:21She didn't howl.
33:22Didn't nudge.
33:23Just pressed her head against my hand and held it there.
33:27In the distance, a door of light appeared.
33:29Soft.
33:30Steady.
33:31Waiting.
33:32I looked at my wolf.
33:33She looked at me.
33:35Yeah.
33:35Time to leave.
33:36This life was too bitter.
33:38Nothing worth holding onto.
33:40I floated to Mom's hut one final time.
33:43She looked ancient.
33:44Hair completely white.
33:45Frail as paper.
33:46She sensed something.
33:48Her cloudy eyes focused on a point in the air.
33:50Right where I stood.
33:51Stella?
33:52Is that you?
33:53Her trembling hand reached into the emptiness.
33:56Mom destroyed the choker.
33:57I don't believe in it anymore.
33:59Come back, please.
34:00I'll cook for you.
34:01No salary.
34:02I'll buy you new dresses.
34:04Not Emma.
34:04Tears rolled down her face.
34:06I looked at the red marks on her neck from the frayed cord.
34:09I...
34:09I reached out.
34:11My cold, ghostly finger touched her forehead.
34:14This was my final mercy.
34:16Sleep, Mom.
34:17In sleep, there's no pain.
34:18Her eyes fluttered shut.
34:20She slumped into a deep, dreamless rest.
34:23A breeze blew through the hut.
34:24The old journal on her cot flipped open.
34:27The last page, my dying words, stared up at the ceiling.
34:30But below it, in shaky handwriting, were new lines.
34:34Written by Mom during a lucid moment.
34:36Next life, let me wear the choker.
34:38Let me be the liar.
34:40Punish me however you want.
34:42Just don't leave me.
34:43I stared at those words.
34:44Felt nothing.
34:45Too late.
34:46Repentance means nothing to the dead.
34:48Mom, I don't hate you anymore.
34:51But I don't love you either.
34:52Let's not meet again.
34:54I turned away.
34:54My wolf was waiting.
34:56In the distance, the door of light still glowed.
34:58Soft.
34:59Steady.
35:00Patient.
35:00I looked at my neck.
35:02The phantom Verity choker.
35:03Still there.
35:04Even in spirit form.
35:06The nightmare that had changed me for a lifetime.
35:08I grabbed it.
35:09It shattered into nothing.
35:11I felt weightless.
35:12Free.
35:12No red light.
35:13No hunger.
35:14No lies.
35:15Just freedom.
35:16My wolf pressed against my side.
35:18Together, we walked toward the light.
35:20I didn't look back.
35:21Morning came.
35:22A guard pushed open the door.
35:24Rachel!
35:24Time to eat!
35:25No response.
35:26She walked closer.
35:27Mom's hand clutched the torn journal.
35:29A single tear.
35:30Crystallized at the corner of her eye.
35:32She crouched beside her.
35:33Held two fingers beneath her nose.
35:35Nothing.
35:36She was gone.
35:37Passing through the door wasn't violent.
35:39No spinning.
35:40No chaos.
35:41Just warmth.
35:42Like sinking into a spring stream.
35:44I looked to my side.
35:45My wolf was gone.
35:46I didn't panic.
35:47I pressed my hand to my chest.
35:49And there she was.
35:50Steady.
35:51Warm.
35:52Then I heard her voice.
35:53Not a whimper.
35:54Not a whine.
35:55Clear and bright and full of life.
35:57Like the first time we met.
35:59Run!
35:59Then I shifted.
36:00Four paws hit the ground and I ran.
36:02Through forests that smelled of pine and rain.
36:05Through cold, shallow streams that splashed silver around my legs.
36:09Through meadows I had never seen but somehow knew.
36:12My white fur caught the light.
36:14My paws were sure.
36:15My lungs were full.
36:17My body was strong.
36:19No choker around my throat.
36:20No red light.
36:21No hunger.
36:22The lingering ache in my soul, the phantom pain of ten years, started to fade with every step.
36:29I ran toward brightness.
36:30Behind me, old life dissolved like a worn photograph left out in the rain.
36:35Mom's final tear.
36:36The red glow of the choker.
36:39Blood on the journal pages.
36:40Gone.
36:41I didn't look back.
36:42That ten-year nightmare was finally, truly, over.
36:46When I opened my eyes again, I was tiny, wrapped in soft blankets.
36:51Someone was humming.
36:53A woman's voice.
36:55Gentle.
36:56Off-key, but full of love.
36:58Her fingers brushed my cheek.
37:00The scent of wildflowers.
37:02Not the cold, clinical distance of my old mother.
37:06Not the silence of someone who only touched me to punish.
37:09I blinked up at her.
37:11She had kind eyes.
37:13A soft smile.
37:14She cradled me like I was made of glass.
37:17Grace is awake, honey.
37:19Come quick.
37:20Our daughter just opened her eyes.
37:22A man appeared.
37:23Tall.
37:24A little awkward.
37:25But his face lit up when he saw me.
37:27He touched my tiny hand with one finger.
37:30His voice was deep.
37:32Warm.
37:33Hey, Grace.
37:34I'm your dad.
37:37Grace.
37:38Not Stella.
37:40No weight.
37:41No chains.
37:42No red light.
37:43Just Grace.
37:44A name that meant something light.
37:46Something cherished.
37:48This house was small.
37:49But warm.
37:50Full of light.
37:51Cartoon painting on the walls.
37:53Flowers by the window.
37:55Sunlight pouring through the windows.
37:57Warm on the floor.
37:58I realized fast.
38:00This family was nothing like the last one.
38:03They never forced me to do anything.
38:05There were no chokers.
38:07No red lights.
38:08No punishments for things I hadn't done.
38:11I grew.
38:12Learned to crawl.
38:13To talk.
38:14And when I was three, mom made a stew with celery.
38:18The green stalks in the bowl triggered me.
38:20I flashed back to choking.
38:22Throat swelling.
38:24Vomiting blood.
38:25I stumbled backwards, shaking.
38:27Tears came without permission.
38:29Mom immediately put down her spoon.
38:32Crouched.
38:33Pulled me into a hug.
38:35Grace, what's wrong?
38:36You don't like celery?
38:37I couldn't speak.
38:38Just shook my head, sobbing.
38:41Dad knelt too.
38:42Rubbed my back.
38:43Hey, it's okay.
38:45You don't have to eat it.
38:46Can you tell us why?
38:48Their eyes were patient.
38:49Gentle.
38:50Finally, I choked out.
38:53It hurts my throat.
38:55Makes me bleed.
38:57They didn't say,
38:58The Verity choker doesn't lie.
39:00They didn't accuse me of faking.
39:02They took me to the pack healer immediately.
39:04Turns out, I really do have a celery allergy.
39:08After that, celery never appeared in the house again.
39:11Mom added it to her market list.
39:13Grace's allergies.
39:15Celery.
39:16She checked every time she shopped.
39:18I lay in her arms that night,
39:20smelling wildflowers.
39:22And realized,
39:23This is what it feels like to be believed.
39:25Love isn't measured by a stone.
39:28It's listening.
39:29Even when the story sounds impossible.
39:32When I was four,
39:33Dad took me to the pack healer for my first health check.
39:35There was a blood draw.
39:37I saw the needle and lost it.
39:39Flashes of the choker tightening around my throat.
39:42Flashes of starvation.
39:44I screamed.
39:45Clung to Dad's leg.
39:46The healer sighed.
39:48I couldn't stop shaking.
39:49Don't punish me.
39:51Daddy, I'm not lying.
39:53Dad immediately scooped me up.
39:55Sorry, she's not ready.
39:56We'll come back another time.
39:58On the walk home,
39:59Dad didn't scold me for being weak.
40:01He just asked gently.
40:03Grace,
40:04did someone hurt you before?
40:06I buried my face in his shoulder,
40:08tears soaking his shirt.
40:10Mom,
40:11Joker,
40:12red light.
40:13I couldn't explain it clearly,
40:15but he listened,
40:16nodded.
40:18It's okay.
40:19Dad's here now.
40:21No one's ever hurting you again.
40:23From then on,
40:24they took me to the pack healer regularly.
40:27Not for blood draws,
40:28just to talk.
40:29She has been hurt.
40:31Be patient with her.
40:32My parents never complained.
40:34Never made me feel like a burden.
40:36They bought me a colorful necklace,
40:38but never forced me to wear it.
40:39This is just a pretty thing, Grace.
40:41Wear it if you want.
40:43Take it off if you don't.
40:45We'll love you either way.
40:46Slowly, I started to heal.
40:48I could say,
40:49I don't like this.
40:51Without fear.
40:52I could say,
40:53I'm scared.
40:54I could say,
40:55I want that.
40:56I didn't have to worry about my heart racing being proof of a lie.
41:00I started sharing my stories with them.
41:02I cried when I didn't get a toy.
41:05I laughed when I got praise.
41:07I was finally just a pup.
41:09A normal, loved pup.
41:11When I turned seven,
41:12I started at the pack school.
41:14There was a girl in my class,
41:16Annie Sullivan.
41:16She looked exactly like Emma.
41:19Same eyes,
41:21but her hair was shorter.
41:22And she was timid.
41:25Scared.
41:26The first time I saw her,
41:27my heart clenched.
41:29Flashbacks.
41:30Emma's smug grin.
41:32The green light mocking me.
41:34I stepped back instinctively.
41:36Annie noticed.
41:37She looked down,
41:38voice barely a whisper.
41:40I'm Annie.
41:43Do you want to be friends?
41:45Her tone was so careful.
41:46So desperate to please.
41:48Just like I used to be.
41:50I glanced at her neck.
41:51She wore a simple choker with green gem.
41:54My stomach turned.
41:56Later, I found out,
41:58Annie's mom was strict too.
42:00Demanded honesty.
42:01Locked her in her room without food when she made mistakes.
42:05One day,
42:06Annie accidentally knocked over the teacher's ink pot.
42:09She was trembling.
42:10Too scared to admit it.
42:11I saw her face.
42:13Red-rimmed eyes.
42:15Barely holding back tears.
42:16I remembered myself at that desk,
42:18writing,
42:19I am a liar.
42:21Over and over.
42:22I walked over.
42:24Took her hand.
42:25Annie, it's okay.
42:28Accidents happen.
42:29Let's tell the teacher together.
42:31She won't be mad.
42:33Annie looked at me, shocked.
42:34But mom says liars are bad wolves?
42:37Being honest isn't about never making mistakes.
42:40It's about owning up when you do.
42:42And even if you tell the truth,
42:44you shouldn't be punished for it.
42:46If the teacher gets angry,
42:47I'll stand with you.
42:48If your mom gets angry,
42:50come to my house.
42:51My parents will help.
42:52I gave her the courage I never had.
42:54She confessed.
42:56The teacher forgave her.
42:57Told her to be more careful next time.
42:59From that day on,
43:01we have been best friends.
43:02I brought Annie home to meet my parents.
43:04She saw how warm they were.
43:06How they didn't yell.
43:08Didn't punish little things.
43:09I told her,
43:10You don't have to make everyone happy.
43:13You're allowed to feel things.
43:16Say things.
43:18One day,
43:19Annie's mom came to pick her up from school.
43:20She saw us together and her face twisted.
43:24She grabbed Annie's hand.
43:26Did you mess up again?
43:27Is Grace covering for you?
43:29Annie immediately looked down.
43:31Silent.
43:32I stepped in front of her.
43:34Looked at the mom in the eye.
43:36Ma'am,
43:36Annie didn't do anything wrong.
43:38She's a good pup.
43:40You shouldn't always assume the worst.
43:45She's scared of you.
43:47The mom froze.
43:48Looked at me.
43:48Then at Annie's tear-filled eyes.
43:51Her expression softened.
43:53That night,
43:54she called my mom.
43:55Thanked her.
43:56Said I'd opened her eyes.
43:58Over time,
43:59Annie's mom got gentler.
44:00Started listening instead of yelling.
44:03And Annie?
44:04She blossomed.
44:05Confident.
44:06Happy.
44:07I watched her laugh freely one day
44:09and felt this warmth in my chest.
44:11I didn't get saved in my last life.
44:14I suffered alone in the dark.
44:15But this time,
44:17I could save someone else.
44:18I could stop another Stella from happening.
44:21Maybe that's the gift my past life gave me.
44:24The ability to see pain.
44:26And to heal it.
44:27When I was 10,
44:28my parents took me to visit Grandma.
44:30There was an old oak tree in her yard.
44:32Its branches spread wide,
44:33casting shade over the whole garden.
44:35I sat beneath it,
44:37watching sunlight filter through the leaves.
44:39My wolf dozed inside me,
44:40warm and content.
44:42Then I saw her,
44:43an old woman,
44:44white hair,
44:45hunched over a walking stick,
44:47wearing a faded blue dress.
44:49The second I saw her face,
44:50I froze.
44:51She looked exactly like Rachel,
44:54my old mother.
44:55Grandma noticed me too.
44:56Walked over slowly.
44:58Her eyes were hazy,
44:59but there was something familiar in them.
45:01Something heavy.
45:02What's your name, child?
45:03Grace.
45:04She repeated it softly.
45:05Grace,
45:06that's a beautiful name.
45:07She reached out like she wanted to touch my hair,
45:10then hesitated.
45:11Pulled back,
45:12like she was afraid of disturbing something sacred.
45:14My mom came over,
45:16steadied her.
45:16Mom,
45:17this is our daughter,
45:18Grace.
45:19So she was my grandma in this life too.
45:21Over the next few days,
45:23Grandma watched me constantly.
45:24Her expression was unreadable.
45:26One morning,
45:27she brought me a bowl of roasted meat.
45:29Grace,
45:29eat up.
45:30This used to be your favorite.
45:31I stared at the bowl.
45:32In my last life,
45:34I wrote in my dying breath,
45:35I want to eat mom's roasted meat.
45:37And here was Grandma,
45:39saying those exact words.
45:41Tears blurred my vision.
45:42This wasn't some distant wish anymore.
45:44It was real,
45:45right in front of me.
45:47I picked up a piece,
45:48bit into it.
45:49Tender,
45:50sweet,
45:50perfect.
45:51Grandma smiled.
45:52A tired,
45:53guilty smile.
45:54That night,
45:55lying in bed with my wolf curled warm inside my chest,
45:58I thought about Rachel's last words.
46:01Next life,
46:01let me wear the choker.
46:03Let me be the liar.
46:04Punish me however you want.
46:06Just don't leave me.
46:07I thought about her final tear,
46:09the torn journal.
46:10I didn't hate her anymore.
46:12Hating someone is like locking yourself in the past,
46:14chewing on pain forever.
46:16This life's warmth had already washed away the bitterness.
46:19I just felt sad.
46:20Sad that she only understood too late.
46:23Real love was never about stones or punishment.
46:26We stayed for a month,
46:27then went back home.
46:28Before I left,
46:29she held my hand.
46:30Grace,
46:31live well,
46:32be happy.
46:33Her voice was soft,
46:34but heavy with meaning.
46:35I nodded.
46:36You too,
46:36Grandma.
46:37I watched her walk away,
46:38and I felt nothing.
46:40No anger,
46:41no grief.
46:42The grudges of my past life were like fallen leaves,
46:44blown away by the wind.
46:46I wasn't Stella anymore,
46:48the girl locked in the dark,
46:49choking on a lie.
46:50I was Grace Sterling,
46:51surrounded by love,
46:53free.
46:53At 13,
46:54I graduated from PAC school,
46:56got into the best academy in the region.
46:58My parents took me to the lake for a picnic to celebrate.
47:01I stood at the edge of the water,
47:02wind in my hair,
47:04the scent of pine and cold water on my skin.
47:07I stretched out my arms,
47:08feeling the freedom.
47:10For a moment,
47:11I saw her,
47:12my ghost self,
47:13floating,
47:13desperate to hug someone,
47:15but passing right through.
47:17Grace,
47:18what are you thinking?
47:19Dad handed me a drink.
47:20I smiled.
47:21Just,
47:21I'm grateful.
47:22To be alive,
47:23to be with you both.
47:25Mom pulled me into a hug.
47:26Silly girl,
47:27we're the lucky ones.
47:29No one said anything.
47:30We all just shifted at the same time,
47:33like we'd done it a hundred times before.
47:35We ran together through the trees,
47:37through the shallow edge of the lake,
47:39water spraying silver around our paws.
47:41Eventually,
47:42I slowed down,
47:43turned,
47:43and threw myself at them.
47:46We tumbled into the grass together.
47:48Mom nuzzled her head against mine.
47:50Dad licked the top of my head with lazy affection.
47:53I pressed into them both and stayed there,
47:55breathing hard,
47:56warm,
47:57all the way through.
47:58I looked up at the sky through the canopy of trees.
48:01I didn't need to prove I wasn't a liar anymore.
48:03I didn't need to fear a red light.
48:05I could laugh,
48:07cry,
48:07speak freely.
48:08I had parents who loved me,
48:10a best friend,
48:11a healthy body,
48:12a bright future.
48:13This was the life I died wishing for.
48:16That night,
48:17I wrote in my journal,
48:18not the blood-stained confessions of my old life.
48:21This one was full of happiness,
48:23growth,
48:24love.
48:24I wrote,
48:25Today,
48:26we ran by the lake.
48:27Mom and Dad shifted with me without saying a word.
48:30We tumbled in the grass like pups.
48:32I thought about my past self,
48:34that little girl,
48:35locked in a room,
48:36choking in the dark,
48:38desperate to be loved.
48:39She'd never believe that I could be this happy.
48:42Mom and Dad love me.
48:43They taught me that honesty isn't something you punish out of someone.
48:46It's something you grow,
48:48with patience and warmth.
48:50Annie is my best friend now.
48:52She laughs freely.
48:53She speaks without flinching.
48:56Grandma is getting older,
48:57but her eyes are warm when she looks at me.
48:59My wolf grows stronger every day.
49:02With her beside me,
49:03I feel at ease.
49:04I don't hate anyone anymore.
49:06I don't cling to the past.
49:08Those painful memories are like paw prints in the mud,
49:11washed away by rain.
49:12But they taught me to cherish every step forward.
49:15I know my old mom,
49:17sister,
49:17and dad got what they deserved.
49:19And I finally broke free.
49:21I found real freedom.
49:23I don't want to see them again.
49:25I don't want to relive that life.
49:26I just want to be gray,
49:28simple,
49:29happy,
49:29loved.
49:30The lake was beautiful.
49:32Life was beautiful.
49:33I closed my journal,
49:34looked out the window.
49:35Moonlight shimmered on the water through the trees.
49:38My wolf stirred softly inside my chest.
49:40Warm,
49:41steady,
49:42I smiled.
49:43This life,
49:44I finally became who I wanted to be.
49:46No red light,
49:47no starvation,
49:48no lies,
49:49just love,
49:50freedom,
49:51happiness.
49:52And those scars from my past?
49:53They became part of me.
49:55Proof that I had survived.
49:56Proof that darkness,
49:58no matter how long it lasts,
49:59cannot swallow you whole.
50:01Not if you keep moving toward the light.
50:03The road ahead is long,
50:04but I will walk it with courage,
50:07with joy,
50:08toward something even brighter.
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