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Cameron Sierra Knight was the first born daughter of the Knight family, a long, and well known hunting werewolf hunting family. As with all hunters, she was raised to hunt, trap and kill werewolves, as well as being well versed in tracking, weaknesses and strengths and all things wolves. Her childhood itself was relatively normal. She grew up beautiful, she was smart, well educated, and very graceful. Cameron also excelled in her family’s secrets. Although she never actually made her first kill, as that was a ritual all its own, she was still branded with the family tattoos, marking her to the outside world for the hunter she was. She also, as girls do, met a boy, Cadfael Vanguard. Cameron fell hard for him, and gave him all of her love. Although they became a strong couple, their families didn’t approve of their relationship, and insisted upon the previous arrangement in place. This broke Cameron and Cadfael’s hearts.
Cameron was forced to begin a relationship with Oliver Vanguard, Cad’s cousin. Cameron hated him, and rejected the relationship, at least until her grandfather threatened Cadfael’s life. Slowly, very, very slowly, she begrudgingly accepted the relationship, but she did eventually see some kindness and sweetness in Oliver. Too bad for her that it wasn’t as real as she thought.
When the night of Cameron’s kill was supposed to come, she prepared as any hunter would. She gathered her weapons, her tracking equipment, dressed to be silent and stealthy, got the pep talk from ol’ Dad, and set out. She’d been given details of a wolf that was killing the sheep around, so she was sent to take it out. So, she did everything she was taught. She followed its tracks, its trails, until she came across its den. But when she did, something in her changed.
Cameron crept at the entrance of the den, watching a mother feed her puppies. She could hear the little yips coming from inside, and the soft growls of affection. She realized then what hunters never seemed to understand. The wolves were just trying to survive. All her programming, all her training told her to kill it, skin it and keep it. And yet, she hesitated. She would wind up not killing that wolf, and instead, lying to her father and telling him that she had moved on.
Cameron changed a little bit after that, as she began to truly wonder about the wolves. But all around her, her family’s vendetta mounted against the wolves, and the attacks grew much more frequent, even as Cameron tried to convince Cad and her friends to help her. Cameron was eventually forced to choose between the wolves and her family, and at the time, her family won. She still didn’t kill the wolf, but she hurt it badly.
Perhaps this was the reason for what happened to her next.
The wolves, deciding they had had enough of being attacked, mounted against the Knight family, invading their home with strength and fast attacks. Cameron’s mother barely had time to scream before she died, and her father was wounded, although purposely left alive. Cameron’s boyfriend, Oliver, tried to protect her, but as they weren’t interested in him, they batted him to the side with one of their giant paws, while one of them held his body, forcing him to watch. The Beta of the attacking pack advanced on Cameron, who was admittedly shaken and with little tools of defence. She recognized it as the wolf she had wounded earlier. Upon thinking back, Cameron would realize that wolf looked at Cameron’s father and then her, as if telling her what was about to happen. Then his teeth bit powerfully into her thigh. It was not a kill shot, although the wolf easily could’ve torn her apart. What he did instead was turn her into the thing she hated the most.
The next time Cameron awoke, there was weapons pointed at her. Both her father and her boyfriend were holding silver spears to her. “Get out of my house. You are one of them now.” Was the last and only words her father would say to her. Startled, hurt, confused and scared, Cami didn’t have a choice but to run. Perhaps it was the mercy of a parent that allowed her to escape, but the hunt was on her then. From then on, Cameron’s life became very different. She was hated by both sides, and branded as the enemy. This didn’t stop her, though, from trying to save the wolves, or being attacked by her own family.