Episode 1

When the mind begins to think because the body is suffering, the pain becomes bearable, but when the body is so battered, and the mind is assaulted with offensive words, unable to grasp the meaning and sense of the attack, the soul shatters, the heart clenches, and the unimaginable occurs.

Alone, cold, hungry, and in pain from the assault, only two feelings prevail: hatred and rebellion. These feelings grant a survival strength when there’s no strength left for anything else. Something corrodes the soul, due to an inability to fight back against what torments it and the hopelessness of not knowing how to escape. There is no solution, only to endure, to hold on, until a miracle happens.

Once again, he dragged her by the hair, made her sleep in the doghouse without food after giving her a beating with a wet towel, leaving no marks. She was growing up unable to escape this life and had only been spared what she considered worse that night because she was "filthy," as he put it.

Thunder boomed loudly and lightning, one after another, streaked across the sky. The dog nudged her to make room, and she ended up stepping out from under the protection of the makeshift shelter and into a mud puddle formed as soon as the rain started to fall. She saw a light and glimpsed the back door of the house open, and someone ran towards her.

"I'm setting you free, June, go away, flee into the forest, but never show your face here again, or in town. Go, my child, and forgive me."

The woman, who despite her worn appearance, was still young, having had her first child at fourteen, lifted her oldest daughter's mud-covered body, smeared more mud to disguise her, and helped her over the wall, as the gate was locked. She went back inside, not looking back. If she had, she would have seen a car hit the little girl and a large man put her into the car, heading towards the forest.

The miracle June awaited arrived. It wasn’t quite as she imagined, but at that moment, she was in a world of oblivion, where humiliation and pain no longer belonged to her current moment, only the relief of nothingness.

"Bring her inside, Kurt. I'll need to clean her up before checking her wounds; she's covered in mud."

"Yes, Dr. Malek."

Kurt picked up the girl, only recognising she was female by the small hard spots that were her nipples in the center of the small mounds that were her breasts. He took her to the biopsy table and washed her with the handheld shower, letting the mud wash away. He stopped and cut her tattered dress off, pulling it away and resuming the wash; she wore no undergarments.

"So, Kurt, how is she?" the doctor asked, now fully dressed for the procedure.

"It looks like her legs, one arm, and ribs are broken. Can’t tell if the ribs have punctured any organs, but the arm seems to be broken in two places and the legs just below the knees, both are broken."

Dr. Malik observed the slender girl and noted her malnutrition and, by the thin stream of blood running between her thighs, that she was menstruating and anemic.

"Her condition is dire, we'll check her internals with the ultrasound."

He pulled down the ceiling-mounted device, turned it on, and hovered it over her body at a certain distance, with the internal images appearing on the screen.

"Yeah, it's very serious, I'm not sure she'll survive, and even if she does, she may not fully recover. It will take a long time for everything to heal. The ribs have punctured the lung and spleen; it’ll be a challenge to fix all this."

"I also have a feeling, although there aren’t many visible bruises, that she’s been beaten."

"Yes, dear Kurt, there are ways to beat a person without leaving marks. Humans can conceive unimaginable forms of torture."

"May I know what is happening here?" a deep voice spoke next to the doctor.

"As always, very stealthy, Don Ramon. We ran over this poor creature on the road. But her condition is so precarious that I fear she won't survive."

"Her scent is different; her blood seems very weak, her body frail, and she is too young for a transformation," concluded the deep voice.

"Perhaps, but she appears much younger due to abuse. She has formed breasts and is menstruating. What do you decide?"

"Treat what can be treated, if she survives until tomorrow, I'll try to transform her, for the sake of your conscience, Malek, and that’s the only reason. But know she'll be your responsibility."

"Thank you, Alpha."

"Don’t thank me yet, Malek, she'll be quite the trouble. Thank me later." The Alpha left, well-dressed, seemingly with an appointment.

"Let's begin, Kurt. First, let's drain the blood from her lung and chest since she's already on this table. Then we'll take her to the surgery room."

They spent the rest of the night working. The dying girl seemed very eager to live, for she bravely withstood the multiple surgeries required. They gave her a blood transfusion and anesthesia.

Now, her two legs and arm were immobilized. A large bandage covered the incision made in her chest, just below the breast, to mend the ribs and organs damaged by them. Besides that, they only applied a pain-relieving spray to the muscles.

"All done, Kurt, now we wait. We've done all we could. Let's pass on the care instructions to the two arriving and get our deserved rest."

"Yes, doctor, you did a great job, especially for a human."

"We did, Kurt, we did. And I must confess, I found it gratifying to practice this kind of medicine again."

They left the patient in a bed in one of the three well-equipped clinic rooms of the Lotus Flower Pack, as there was no need for so many beds since no one there ever got so injured or sick. That very day, the Alpha would come to see her and assess the situation. If he found a survival strength in the creature, he would transform her, but if not, he would leave her to fate. It would be a full-moon night, perfect for transformation.

For the moment, though, the Alpha was entangled in his sheets and in the body of his partner, eager for an offspring as the full moon ignited a sexual frenzy in his kind.

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