Seven: Mia Conner

Seven

Mia Conner

I had another weird dream.

Instead of waking up with one wolf staring at me, in the dream I was in the woods. I wore a white dress, and there was a group of people looking at me. The strangers' eyes glowed a bright blue, then they looked up at the moon and howled. I looked at the moon too, and was surprised when a howl escaped me as well. It wasn't a noise that I had ever made.

I looked back at the crowd of people in the woods. And in their place, there were wolves. Wolves that were looking at me with a kind of hunger I had never seen before. I should have felt scared but instead, there was a strange sense of calm. As if I belonged there.

A large, white wolf came through the crowd and went up to me. Mia, someone was saying my name. Mia. I locked eyes with the wolf and I had the strangest sensation that it was the wolf that was speaking it to me.

In my mind.

My heart pounded against my chest. I saw flashes of a little girl, with a man and a woman that I di