"A few years later, I met her again by chance. I was graduating with my mastery in alchemy, and she attended the ceremony. She wore a scent that was familiar to me, but not quite right. A synthetic replication of an omega scent. It was truly quite remarkable, what she had created, but it wasn’t exact, and of course it lacked the pheromones essential to the instinct. She had the attention of an alpha until I approached her." Granger winced, looking pained. 