Shiftless

Talee is from a cursed pack, Oviagan, a lycan who can feel her wolf and feel the instincts but unable to shift. Like so many in her pack. Those able to shift are dwindling quickly in number and pairings from outside the incredibly large pack has all but dwindled to nothing. Yet, she has managed to make a name for herself as a Runner. A privileged position that acts as a shield from the magic of their world to the unknowing humans that exist around the nation of Taneria. This is why she was selected to leave Oviagan to lead the infamous run aways Cayn and Cynna to the capital of Vatin. She looks at it as a fun trip to experience what life is like outside of Oviagan for a short time. She never expects to meet her life mate.

Byron is the second beta of Vatin and enjoying his recent demotion. It gives him more time for fun, and needling his friend, and less work. He is content with his life, mate or no mate, but when Talee walks into his life he finds himself jumping feet first into getting to know her; and not because Luna, their first mother, will punish life mate pairings who try to stay apart.

It should be an easy decision for both of them. It should be easy for them to take the time to get to know each other and decide things, like where to settle. But with the curse of Oviagan having reached an unsettling level of chaos with its history hidden away to time, the treason that some are planning in Oviagan, and the looming war that Cynna brought with her; the budding relationship will be tested by outside forces that even Luna couldn't prevent.

However, with just a little taste of what could be, Talee wants it all. She wants her future with Byron. She wants to feel what it is like to run as a wolf. She wants her family and pack members to be safe from Ersyu's vengeful wrath. And she will have it all. Even if she has to fight with everything she has, even if she has to face the terrifying Elementals. She'll do it.