Tale of Frida: The Awakening

She killed the wolf. She became one. She still believes in God.Frida brings her confession to Westminster Abbey — what she did, what she is, what she can't take back. The priest believes her. He also tells her he can't be the one to help her. There's a bishop in Paris who handles things the Church doesn't speak of openly, and he sends her across the water with nothing but a sealed letter and a route through pilgrims.She still believed in God. That hadn't moved. But the men who spoke in His name had already decided what she was before she walked through their door.Her faith was never broken. Her obedience was. In Paris, that distinction is the only thing standing between her and a Church with its own secrets, a city that hunts after dark, and a wolf that already claims the rooftops. Bishop Julien watches from behind closed doors. Emil searches the forbidden records beneath Notre Dame. And Frida is left to decide what the wolf inside her actually is — a curse to survive, a weapon to fear, or the only part of herself strong enough to keep her alive.