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
ADAIRA~I chose Gaby, Elene, my grandfather, and two others as the supervisors for our own side because I trusted them to handle the job effectively. My grandfather may be an elder, but he was still strong enough to do this. And he needed something to keep him busy so he wouldn’t have time to have depressing thoughts, doing this would keep him occupied. And he used to be part of the council in his younger years so he had experience handling issues like these within packs. The five shifters Gavrael chose from the rogues were displeased just like the others were about my pack’s change in status, but I knew why Gavrael chose them. Even though they made their displeasure with his decision known, they were level headed and were willing to obey the order he gave. They were better, compared to some of the other rogues that seemed to be time bombs waiting to explode but only held back by Gavrael’s warning and his promise of pain to anyone who disobeyed. Gavrael gave strict instructions to th
ADAIRA~We blended in among the humans. Since it was just evening, a lot of them were still outside their homes, the streets were busy and my heightened senses were overwhelmed. I could hear their heartbeats, the car horns were irritating, and their smells… goddess have mercy, some of them smelled horrible. I had to hold myself back so I don’t gag every ten seconds. Seriously, do they not know the usefulness of a bath? Even though we looked human, they still had some innate sense that we were not normal so everywhere we went, people parted for us to pass through without having to say excuse me or having to push anyone out of the way. People stared at us, though not with fear, mostly with admiration, some with confusion, wondering who we were and whether we were tourists of some kind. I suspected that some of them may have approached us if Gavrael didn’t have a massive scowl on his face to dissuade any such intention. He was taller than everyone we passed, and I was almost taller tha
GAVRAEL~I followed Adaira down a busy street after we came out of the alley, and I could feel her curiosity about why so many people seemed to be on their way somewhere. The people walking towards us also seem to be returning from somewhere, I could smell the excitement on them. Shifters could detect emotions because of the different hormones the body releases when stimulated in different ways, and my senses were heightened than most. Most times, I don’t even need scent to determine how a person, shifter or human was feeling at the moment. Right now though, it was impossible not to smell the anticipation and excitement in the air.Adaira grabbed one of the passing women and we stopped walking so she could question the woman.“What’s going on? Do you know what’s happening? Everyone on this street seems to be going somewhere or returning from someone.”I barely paid attention to their conversation. I just stood beside Adaira, silently scanning the area for threats while they discussed