Silver: Now we were outside, I finally had the chance to put my plan into action. Since Mila didn’t know much of what had been happening on the inside, I knew I needed to find someone else and convince them to speak with me so that I would have something to tell the King when Terah would eventually return to take me back to him. Being outside was not as fun for the girls as I had hoped. Mila could move around although to a limit, but the other girl could only sit at a place and watch what was going on. She looked like she would deliver soon and after being confined in a room in a bed for the entirety of her pregnancy, being outside now was very difficult for her. Bringing them out here was another proof of my selfishness. I didn’t fight for them to be released because I felt so bad for them. I had done that just so I could meet up with other girls for information. However, I had no other choice and I was done hating myself for my choices. I had been able to kill two birds with one
Silver:“Already?” I asked. I couldn’t leave yet. I had just gotten such a small bit of information and I just had to know more. “We have to go,” the physician said again, this time more harshly than before. “Now.”“But I haven’t found out what the King sent me here to find out,” I protested. “If I leave now, then my whole reason for coming here would be useless.”He grunted in frustration, coming closer as if he wanted to grab me by my hand. He stopped at the last second, realizing it would be inappropriate. The matron was watching us both, and by us, I mean me. She was probably wondering why I would reject the offer to return to safety with the King, and because I had said I wasn’t done finding out what he sent me here to do, she was probably doubting if I was really on their side or not. It was when I saw the physician’s wild stare that I realized something was wrong. He was frowning at me very deeply and his chest was heaving as if he was trying to hold back his anger. Coming c
Silver:My heart was pounding, both from anger and from fear. Alpha Damon struggled to meet my eyes as guilt filled him, but I didn’t care about his guilt. I was concerned about what his guilt meant for me. He didn’t say anything in response to my question and as the minutes passed, my heart became made up against him. “Won’t you answer me?” I asked. “Can you even answer me?” I saw his face change, from guilt slowly into a hardened look. He gave me a steely look, and just then, I knew he was done trying to convince me. “I told Gwyddion not to tell you anything yet. I wanted to tell you myself,” he said and my eyes widened in disbelief. That was all he could say about this?“So you’re more bothered about how I found out than what exactly I found out?” I asked. ‘’What’s going to happen now, then. What’s going to happen now that I know.”He watched me with an expression I couldn’t name for a while before letting out the words that broke me. “I’ve already come this far. A lot is at st
Silver:“You let Gwyddion say all those things to me. You were willing to use me to achieve everything just to turn around and hurt me like this,” I whispered, too hurt to speak out loud. I hated Gwyddion even more. I hated all of them, everyone that had werewolf blood in them. “He was right about your destiny, Silver,” the King said. “Your destiny is here, with me. You can just open your heart and learn to be with me.” “Learn to be with you?” I asked him, hating more and more with every passing second. “If you won’t kill me, I will kill myself,” I threatened. He furrowed his brows. “You will do no such thing.” Before I could mutter another word, there was a knock on the door and as usual whoever was on the other side opened it and came in without waiting for an instruction to come in. It was Terah. He looked at me for a second as if he wanted to tell me something but moved his eyes immediately away and faced the Alpha. “Your Highness,” he greeted the King, lying on the floor b
Silver: Terah didn’t let me be even after he called Gwyddion for the King. “What do you want?” I asked him, standing by the door of my room so he wouldn’t enter. “I’m sorry for the way I’ve treated you in the past,” he told me, looking sorry for his actions. I rolled my eyes and didn’t bother to hide my true feelings from him. “I don’t need your apology. What I did makes no overall difference in how you see me so please just tell me whenever Beta Rogu is ready to take me back to my people,” I said, entering into the room and shutting the door in his face. The door didn’t close all the way through and when I looked down, I saw his foot was holding it back. He was determined not to let me go. “What do you want?” I asked, swallowing back fear. Now I had easily switched sides, I was scared anything could happen. What if this was their plan from the start and they didn’t want to fulfill their end of the bargain. I was scared. I remembered how easy it had been for Rogu to sacrifice
“Come in,” I said in a lackluster voice.The fact that he was not Terah did not make me regret speaking to him sharply. He had also always known about the plan to destroy my people, yet he decided to use me to save their own agenda. He didn’t deserve my respect either. “Hi,” Gwyddion asked, walking up to me. “May I sit?” He asked, pointing toward the bed. I glared at him. “What do you want?” He pressed his lips together when he understood that I planned to be cold to him. He looked awkward standing alone in the room, where he looked like he would break apart if he didn’t sit down soon, but none of that bothered me. “I just finished speaking with the Alpha and I must tell you, I understand how you feel,” he said, and it only made me angrier. What did he know? “Oh you do?” I mocked. “So you understand what it feels like to know that the people who have always been around you, convincing you to help them and lying about how special you are always had plans of destroying you and your
I woke up panting, with sweat all over my body. I had dreamed of that wolf again, my wolf. I hated dreaming about my freedom only to wake up yet again in captivity. Angrily, I picked the pillow underneath my head and tossed it on the wall. That stupid wolf had tried to convince me yet again to give up my freedom for no reason. I wished I could stop dreaming about her. No matter how much they tried to convince me otherwise, I wouldn’t believe she was real. Even if she was, she probably didn’t belong to me and was just a projection to make sure I stuck to their path. I didn’t know what time it was because I had shut the windows and curtains but I knew it was still day. I paced around the room like I usually did, frustrated at having to remain here. After roaming aimlessly around, I decided to leave the room so I wouldn’t go crazy thinking about everything that would annoy me in there. I was still in a sour mood, and all the inhabitants of the house knew why, so I was sure no one woul
Silver:As I walked back into my room, I realized how serious my case was. A future with Alpha Damon was no future at all. I had seen it play out, how easy it was for him to change his mind over things he had been so passionate about in the past- me. There was no need trying to show my anger. It would all lead to one thing in the end. The physician’s warning only increased my zeal to leave the kingdom further, even if it meant leaving the Kingdom only for now. What would happen to me here after he would be announced as King? What would happen when people noticed me and they began to ask question?He couldn’t possibly force me to be his Luna, and to enjoy the things he had promised me if I did so, so that would only mean one thing for me- joining to face the fate of the humans who I had chosen to be a part of instead. I started to gather my things. I was leaving, one way or another. During the King’s planned announcement, everywhere would be open, so even if Terah and Rogu didn’t ke
Silver’s POV Five Years later: “To our fifth year of harmony!” Bottles clinked and deep voices rang out in cheers as everyone joined in the merriment. The feast was bigger than any other preceding it, and each row and column was filled with human and wolf alike, drinking and laughing, talking and dancing as the joys of merriment engulfed them. It was such a beautiful sight. This was something that had never been done in millennia, but had somehow been achieved during our time. It was a feast we held to celebrate the day the war had officially ended, and even though it was the fifth year, it still felt unreal and made me feel jittery whenever I looked at the sincere faces of everyone having fun. Sometimes it felt like the entire beef between human and wolf never even happened. That felt like such a long time ago, like a dream whose parts I couldn’t clearly remember anymore. The dream could have never become a reality if not for the gods’ interference, that was for sure. Th
Silver: “I can’t. My sister is here,” I said, turning to show him my sister, but of course he couldn’t see her in the pitch blackness. “I’m with Lord Tyrel,” Damon said. “He’ll keep an eye on her. This is really important.” “Hello, Luna,” a deep voice which I assumed must be Tyrel’s spoke. I stepped back defensively. “I’m not leaving my sister with any of your Lords after what I’ve been through,” I snarled. I didn’t care that this lord Tyrel could hear me. There was no way I would let her near any of the men who had gladly sought my death. Damon sighed and held my hand again. I wanted to slap his hand away, but it was warm and relaxing , a contrast from anything I had witnessed all night. “The reason why Rogu was able to get so many people on his side was because he used magic. Some of my men were infected, but now the black magic is gone, I promise you.” I laughed drily. “You really expect me to believe that?” “It’s the truth. That’s how he was able to get the
Silver: I stood in awe as the bright apparition came closer. I had told Tiffanie all about the goddess of time, but like other things I had said, she didn’t believe me then. She stood there frozen with her mouth open as the apparition drew closer. I waited, surprised by the fact that I was greatly excited to meet Oge even though I had borne a huge resentment for her abandoning us after so long. The wolf’s loud and scary howls turned into soft scared purs as it ran away when the goddess approached. Once again, I had been saved from certain death from her timely intervention. As the figure kept approaching however, I slowly began to realize it looked more familiar than usual. It was a woman alright, but not Oge. “Mom?” My sister called out uncertainly. My lips could not form words. Right there in front of me was my mother who had been torn to shreds in front of me a day before, standing in front of me with no marks on her face and looking like a smiling angel. “Silver,
Silver: The noise coming from outside was enough to scare anyone to death. It was evident the human soldiers had finally rallied together and mobilized their weapons and men to fight for them. I was in the room Xavier had ordered his men to place me and I crouched by a corner holding my sister who was even more scared than I was. “Should we go out?” Tiffanie asked with a trembling voice. “We need a better place to hide…” She couldn’t complete the rest of her sentence because a loud crash sounded above us. Never in my life had I heard anything as terrifying as the things I heard that day, not even the day Rogu had planted grenades around Alpha Damon’s palace. “It’s too dangerous to go out there,” I screamed over the loud explosions. “This is the best place we can be at this point.” More explosions occurred, which made Tiffanie and me shudder at each sound. I wasn’t sure I could ever remain normal even if I somehow survived this. After watching my mother get murdered right i
Alpha Damon: “All these years. It was you!” I barked at Rogu who had been tied up at my command. To say I was furious would be a huge understatement. I felt the pain all over again, but this time it wasn’t just the pain of losing my mother, it was the pain of losing my senses, the love of my life and years of happiness I would have had, all because I allowed Rogu to play with my head. I didn’t have to wait for a response from him. I knew Silver’s mother was right. From the look on Rogu’s face as I manhandled him, to the emotions I could feel through him, I knew he was guilty. All those years when I was just an eight year old boy on a walk with his mother and witnessing her murder right in front of me, it had been Rogu all along. He had killed her by mistake because he meant to kill Silver’s mother, a fellow wolf. I had assumed Silver’s father was the murderer simply because he had tried to help me resuscitate her, and because I had been told humans were nothing but trouble and
Silver: It took a while for me to realize that the voice screaming was mine. I watched in horror as my mother’s body was carted away from the room by the other two wolves, while the one who had done the biggest damage stayed back to watch me. Tiffanie was on the floor, rolling and crying. I didn’t know what to do. My mother no longer looked like my mother. She was gone. She was dead. Right after I finally got her back. I fell to the floor without noticing the wolf that was watching me with keen eyes. I wondered why he wouldn’t pounce on me already. It was as if all they wanted was my mother, but then what was the gain in killing her? It made no sense. They had been safe before I arrived. Was it my fault? Had I been the one to draw the rabid wolves here with my scent? I hated myself then. I blamed myself for everything. After everything I had been through to come back to my mother and to protect my family, she had been taken from me within a few split seconds. As I lay on the flo
Silver: “This is great news,” I squealed. For the first time since I discovered I was part werewolf, I was proud of it. It had saved my life and that of my sister after all. “How did it happen?” “When the wolves came, everywhere was a mess. Fortunately, our house is a little hidden so not many came here. Two came to carry us. They called us freaks and tried to kill mom and one started touching me inappropriately,” she said, rubbing her elbows and looking away as she recounted the unfavorable incident. My hands balled into fists. “Something just snapped within me and before I knew it I was on the floor like an animal, tearing into their flesh.” “I’m sorry you had to go through that,” I said, before flopping on the couch. I was extremely exhausted. “But I’m happy we can defend ourselves.” “Why do you look so bad?” She asked me, taking in my roughed up appearance and the blood all over my clothes. “I’m exhausted and…” I said, struggling to speak now that the adrenaline that
Silver:My chest constricted and I began to cough violently until I shifted back into my human self. I stood up immediately and went back to join the others, not willing to draw any attention to the fact that I had just killed a wolf. “Let’s go,” I choked out and fortunately, no one asked me any stupid questions, just followed me. I limped as I led the way, my entire body in pain. I had no idea where I was taking them, but as long as we were moving, I was fine. I wasn’t sure if there was any place that hadn’t yet been run down by the wolves already. “Marc,” someone called and I glanced around but didn’t see anyone. “Psst. Hey. Down here.” We all looked down at the same time and I jumped when I saw the faint outline of a body through a hole in the ground that could pass for a sewer. “Jimmy?” The man in our group who must have been named Marc called back. “What are you doing in the ground?” “Just wait, I’ll be right there,” Jimmy said, disappearing from our view. My head was poun
Silver: I heard the voices of so many people at once, even though they were trying to whisper. I knew some other people had walked in through the door, but I couldn't see them, so I couldn't deduce their number or whose side they were on. "They might not check here. They know this is a prison and they have no us for prisoners, at least not yet," I heard one say. "Shut the door!" the woman with a child cried out. "You'll make them find us!" "Don't reveal our hiding place," another prisoner said. "Go soemwhwere else before you haev us killed in your place." There was arguing among the prisoners and those who wanted to hide with us for a few minutes. I found it very stupid to engage in an argument at this point. It wasn't like the prisoners could come out of their cells and chase the new people away. "Everyone stop!" the man who always managed to have information barked and everywhere quieted down. "The more we argue, the more we increase our chances of being seen. We h