It feels like a sick joke. No, it's definitely a cruel test designed to weed out the weak and break the spirit of the few who dare to try. She had to succumb to her new reality here because the human world is no reality for a beast like her, not to be matched to her own execution.
Her wolf, a voice she's starting to get to know, whines in her mind. "Let's run away. Let's go with our mates. We don't have to do this. We don't have to be their pawn."
Heidi shakes her head, her eyes burning with a sudden, devastating sense of betrayal. The people who were supposed to be their protectors, the system they were forced to become a part of, are just a bunch of hypocrites.
"This is insane! This is horrible. What kind of system is this? Matching us to our execution, just because we're Moon-blessed?" She scoffs, throwing her hands in the air.