Do you know what it meant to be a runt among the shifters? It meant you would be the smallest and the weakest among all the other shifters around you. It was not usual for a werewolf to get sick easily, as it was well known that they had incredible healing ability. A shifter could be littered with severe wounds, but it would only need a few hours or at most a day for them to be able to get back to their original state. Therefore, you couldn't take a shifter lightly, a werewolf even more so, because they were at the top of the food chain. They were the predators. However, it didn't work that way for Iris. The only reason being she was a runt. Ever since she was born, she had been concurrently sick. She was also smaller than a normal shifter baby. In the first few years of her life, it was so hard even to feed her, it was a challenge, especially since she would get a fever every now and then. And when she reached the age of sixteen, she was not able to shift into her wolf due to her spirit being too weak for her to be able to do so. And now, when she was at the age of seventeen, when all the she- wolves would think this was the time when they would meet their mates, she didn't think she would find one.