When I opened my eyes, skulls exhaled smoke, and the basement seemed alive. My mother said that the wolf souls within our blood allow us to become like the spirits ourselves, and we were seeing the world through the eyes of a wandering soul. People wouldn't be able to see us, but we wouldn't be able to see them either. We could hide here from humans; I didn't understand why we needed to hide. When I asked my mother, Long-Tooth stormed over toward me.

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