Elmielos

"Hi, yes you aren't dreaming, it's the chubby Kelly," I say inwardly as I see the unhappy face expression of Jason who is disheartened. 

The guests laugh at us. They call our couple all sort of names. "The prince charming and the pancakes' eater Kelly" is one I can sadly remember."

"I, Jason Bentley of the South pack, reject you Kelly Thompson as my mate and the Luna Queen," he declared fiercely.

***
Kelly Thompson, an eighteen-year-old curvaceous and wolfless she-wolf, has been quietly admiring Jason Bentley, the heir apparent to the throne of the dominant South pack, for a number of years.

Unfortunately for Kelly, she doesn't get the same attention in return from Alpha heir Jason, as the handsome daughter of his old father's Gammas, Betty Nord, is already the love of the pack's future Alpha. But, the plump Kelly has an advantage over the skinny Betty because of a strong vow made by Jason's father, the Alpha King Don Bentley, that his son will marry the daughter of his Betas who gave their lives two years ago in a fight against the North pack's fiercest adversaries in order to preserve the life of the Alpha heir.

But clearly, nothing goes as smoothly as Kelly imagines.

The Rejected Curvy Luna Queen

Where once there was ice and static, now stands a forest of crystalline trees, their trunks spiraling into fractals, leaves chiming like glass in a storm. The air hums with dissonant harmonies, the Veil’s rebirth warping reality into something alien yet achingly beautiful. Lumi walks ahead, her silver scars casting prismatic shadows, her footsteps sprouting flowers of frozen light. Jara eyes them warily, her rifle slung low. 


**“It’s changing her,”** Jara mutters. **“She’s not even blinking anymore.”** 


Lumi pauses, her voice resonant, as if speaking through water. **“The Veil needs tending. Balance isn’t static.”** 


The shadow in my chest writhes, starved and restless. *She’s a garden. Let me graze.* 


**“Stay out of her,”** I warn, but the shadow’s laughter vibrates in my marrow. 


The chimera