ADAIRA~Instead of having a quickie and getting dressed on time, we ended up leaving the room more than an hour later. I was famished. Between getting so angry yesterday, and going at it with Gavrael till all the strength was sapped out of me, I could eat a herd of buffaloes right now. Ideally, we should have gone to the cell where the brothers were detained, but I made a detour to the kitchen first to get my breakfast. Breakfast had already been served to the rest of the pack, so I had to settle for what was left. Gavrael was in the dining hall waiting for his own meal to be served. They kept his own portion separate so he wouldn’t eat leftovers. He had wanted to follow me into the kitchen but I stopped him. No one would be comfortable if he was in here. All the smiles I was getting right now as I sat at the table close to the kitchen back entrance to eat would have been anxious gazes filled with barely concealed fear. I wanted to eat my meal in peace, even if Gavrael was displeased
GAVRAEL~“What are you doing here?” Adaira asked the female, Kraine’s mate, as we approached the cell house.She wasn’t supposed to be here and she knew it. That was why she looked like she wished the earth would open up and swallow her for being caught here.“You better not be here to help that bastard.” Adaira snapped at her as she opened her mouth to give a reply to the question.“I just wanted to s.see him, even if just for a minute. I’m… I’m sorry.” The female replied with barely concealed fear.“Don’t be sorry, be sensible. Why are you coming back to him after all he did to you? I haven’t even heard the full story but what I’ve heard is enough to make me despise him for life.” Adaira replied.I wanted to tell Adaira to take it easy on the girl because she was young, and it was her first time experiencing something like this. But I decided to stay out of the conversation. The female looked fragile, and like she needed a softer approach, but I trusted Adaira to know what was best
ADAIRA~“When I found out that Tamika was my mate, I kept it hidden because I didn’t want the others to ridicule me for being mated to her. My status in the eyes of others would have reduced." He said.As he spoke, I couldn’t help myself, I began to laugh. Gavrael looked at me like he thought I may have lost my mind and so did the other two males in the cells. Tamika’s mate that had been speaking paused because he was confused at my reaction.“So let me get this straight. You refused to accept your mate, not because you think there’s anything wrong with her, but because of what others would say? You’re so insecure, so… weak, that you can’t stand up for yourself and what’s yours against your own pack?” I asked and laughed again.“I wish I could say that I’m surprised, but I’m not. What else is to be expected from weak males?”“I am not weak!” Tamika’s mate snapped at me, and his brother growled beside him before speaking as well.“You’re so bold to speak because there are bars separat
ADAIRA~Tamika didn’t waste a second longer there, she turned and walked away as fast as she could. Even though her quick reaction hid her face, I had seen the tears in her eyes before she turned away. Kraine held his chest in the cell with a dazed look on his face. He was feeling the empty place in his heart where the bond had been before Tamika rejected him. I understood that feeling of emptiness, I had also felt it after coming back to life to discover my bond with Gavrael was broken. It was like you lost a part of your soul, a part of yourself that seems so far away and because of it you would never be the same. He deserved to feel that way and worse. Tamika would feel it too, but she wouldn’t be as acutely affected as he would be because she had been the one to break their bond.“You will stand trial in three days. You will be brought before everyone to state your atrocities, and I will deliver my verdict for your judgement. Before then, I will make sure you will beg for death a
ADAIRA~She took me to the outskirts of the pack, one of the official burial sites and I immediately knew where they had been laid because the soil around that part looked freshly disturbed. There were two tombstones made of stones and flowers on the grave. Shifters didn’t usually mark the tombstones with names like humans did, neither was the tombstone carved by hand or any tool. It was just stone in its uncut, untouched form made to form a small wall. The reason there were no markers even if everyone knew where their own loved one was buried was because we saw ourselves as one big family. So if you mourn for one, you mourn for all. Writing individual names would create a sense of division so they all looked the same to disprove that. It has been this way for centuries and it will still continue like this. Because of this, I had to stop by the tombstones that came before my parents and put a hand to each one I passed. It symbolised me drawing strength from those who have passed in o
GAVRAEL~I was asleep when I felt Adaira wake beside me, and I immediately got up thinking she was in distress again and needed me.“Ira, what’s wrong? Another bad dream?” I asked as I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her closer.“No, not this time. I had a dream about my grandmother. It wasn’t anything serious, just a reminisce of some of the days when I followed her around to tend to people’s gardens. It seemed like nothing at first, but then throughout this dream, she never called me by my name, she called me by the pet name she gave me as a child. Luna. She called me that name years before she even knew that I would be a pack Alpha’s mate. When she said I should follow the moon, she didn’t mean the one in the sky, she meant me. I think I’m just supposed to go to the human town and I’ll know the way. Follow the moon to the North star must mean to follow my heart to my destination.” She said to me.It seems so far fetched that this was what the message she had been given by he
ADAIRA ~ The brothers were brought to the pack square and everyone was gathered, both rogues and the members of my own packs. Gavrael had initially stated that their trial would hold in three days, but since we planned to leave tomorrow, and we had no idea how long our journey would take or what we were even going to meet there, it had to be done before we left. Lucky them, they wouldn’t suffer for so long like they should. As for us, I would basically be leading us based on instinct alone, hoping I’m correct and this is how my grandmother wants me to find our way. But finding the way was only one step, the second part of her instruction was even weirder than the first. Find the one with the broken eyes with rivers of gold… What on earth does that even mean? I’m hoping if I find our destination it would make more sense, but it may not and our leaving may just be in vain. When everyone was gathered, they formed a circle around me and Gavrael, the brothers were bound and on their knee
GAVRAEL ~ I don’t know when exactly I decided to finally effect the change of the pack’s status, but after talking with Adaira, I just realised that her anger was because I just keep saying I will do something but end up not even making an effort. I felt everyone’s varying degrees of shock, hope, anger and disbelief as I made the announcement. I continued speaking regardless. “I do not expect you all to suddenly become one happy family or best of friends, but from now on, I release the rest of you from servitude. No matter what pack you belonged to before, Brookstone, Grenshaw, Rogue, we’re all living within the same boundary, so we are one pack and will act like that from henceforth. I understand that affecting this much of a change will not happen spontaneously and will take a little time to become normal. Everyone needs to contribute to making the pack work like a well oiled machine. Members of the other packs will be slowly reintegrated to join the rogues as warriors. As for t