Before she became a werewolf, Karen was just a normal human girl. She was promised to a young boy in the village; she had loving parents, and was going to have a wonderful life. Until one full moon, John was dragged away in the dead of night leaving nothing but a trail of blood in the freshly fallen snow. Karen was torn to shreds. Her cries could be heard through the whole village the next morning when his body was found in the town square torn to shreds by wolves. 

The people of the village expected her to lock herself in her room for months. However, too much anger flowed through her to just sit in her room and sweep. She grabbed her cloak and stole off in the middle of the night with her father’s sword in hand. It took her several weeks, and honestly she did not know what she was looking for, but she found it, a group of humans sitting around a camp fire. A better description would be a group of humans mixed with wolves. She approached them campfire when she saw him, John. He was laughing with the others with a wolf’s head in his lap.

“John?!?” she cried in horror. 

His hand wiped around to stare at her wide eyed. “Karen, you were not supposed to come after me…” he choked.

“You were dead! Killed by a wolf!” she put her hand over her mouth. “I saw you…” the words came out muffled.

“Kiel, I thought you said she wouldn’t come. She would mourn, but not follow you.” A guy called from across the fire.

“Shut up!” John yelled as he approached Karen. “You need to go back. Forget you saw me. Go back and live out your life.” 

Karen shook her head. She saw his body. She cried against his cold and bloody body. Another guy got up and walked towards them as well. “Kiel, she can’t leave now. She has seen you alive. She knows too much!”

“She doesn’t know anything!”

“She knows you’re alive!”

“Let her go!”

“I cannot.”

Karen watched the exchange with wide, innocent blue eyes. All she knew was Jake was alive. The wolves from around the circle got up and started walking around her. Jake reached out to her but she jerked away from his comfort. 

“What are you going to do?” Jake asked softly, afraid to know the answer.

“Bite her.” The guy’s eyes flashed yellow and before Karen could blink his teeth sank his teeth into her neck. Karen screamed as she fell to the ground. Pain ripped through every part of her body. Her muscles screamed in agony.

The guy who bit her put his hand on Jake’s shoulder as he wiped his mouth of blood. “If it makes you feel any better. She is probably too weak to survive.”
Jake fell to his knees beside her but did not touch her. “I’m sorry, Karen. I am so sorry! I did not want this for you….” A tear slid down his cheek and he stood up want walked away, leaving her in fate’s hands.

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They had no idea who they had changed or who she would have become. She was not weak and she did not die in her transformation. She became stronger than anyone could have imagined. She became Avina.