“Who are you?” A tall, attractive man was holding me in his arms. We were in a small room with two others and two animals. They looked like dogs.

“Yoon…” The man choked on the word and a tear rolled down his face.

“Who is that? Where are we?” He tightened his arms around me. I could feel wetness seeping through my hair. “Hey, it’s ok...” I brought my hand up to his arm, but I didn’t know how to comfort him. When I pulled away from him he let me. He just sat on his knees with a defeated look on his face.

The smaller dog stepped towards the man, but stopped next to me. He nudged my hand and I started petting him. The other one made a noise, but the one didn’t stop.

“Who is he boy?”

His name is Kris

I jerked back from the dog and looked around for the voice.

I am nowhere to be seen, I just am

“What? This is so unreal.” I resumed petting the dog’s head before sitting next to him. We watched the man together

He is mourning

“What is he mourning?”

His mate is gone

“Mate?” The kneeling man flinched. “What is a mate?”

His soul mate. He just lost her

“What happened to her?” The man’s eyes met mine and they were so full of sadness. I even felt his despair, it weighed down on me. “Who was she?”

She was a powerful shifter who had no idea the abilities she had

“When did she die?”

She didn’t

I sat in silence for a moment, only petting the dog. Th