14: Another secret revealed

The sharp rays of sunlight filtering into the room roused Kalista and she opened her eyes.

For a moment she appeared confused, wondering where she was and how she got there. And then the memories came. She remembered what occured the previous day.

So it hadn't been a dream, she thought. Everything had actually happened.

Her mother was gone forever. Jade was a werewolf, and she was a half-blood, with the powers of the Soul Gem.

At the thought of her late mother, tears welled up in her eyes and she cried. She sobbed quietly for a moment, mourning the loss of the woman that had taken her in and raised her as her own. She would forever love Maria, but now she had to find out who her real parents were.

The first thing she had to do was to unravel the mystery surrounding her birth. Since she was a half-blood, it meant one of her parents had been a werewolf and had fallen in love with a human. But why had she been abandoned? Didn't they want her?

Her head hurt from thinking too much and sh