Tusk Love

by Thea Guanzon

“Twenty-three,” he snapped. “Well, that makes you only three years older than I am,

You are already aware that I was born in Cyrengreen. What you don’t know is that I was born during a forest fire. My parents were fleeing the blaze when Mother’s water broke. She gave birth to me right then and there, and one of the spirits of the fire attached themself to my soul.