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House of the Wolves Chapter 60
“Very good. The enemy has bitten the bait,” Xiao muttered beside me.We observed the fight on the borders in one of the watchtowers, our hands on our backs as the fight turned completely in our favor the moment Fenrir joined the battle. I eyed the carriage at the back of the rebels’ army, thinking the one in charge must be inside, and how flustered he must be seeing the current state of the army he led to their deaths. As Fenrir swooped the battlefield clean of the trolls, a human soldier on horseback ran to the carriage. It was too far to see, but they were talking to the person inside.A few moments later, the soldier runs to the front and screams one word. The word we knew we’d hear soon enough.“Retreat!”Xiao and I turned to each other.“They’re leaving,” I say meaningfully, before turning to the other Generals in the watchtower. They were filed in a line behind me, awaiting my orders. “Tail them.”One of the three Generals was quick to curtsy and leave the watchtower. I turned ba
House of the Wolves Chapter 61
Far off from the Capital, deep in the wild rainforest and away from the coven, sat a woman in the middle of a magic circle. Candles of varying sizes and heights filled her sight, leaving no room for her to leave the circle and break formation. Her eyes were shut closed with deep concentration, her fingers shaking fervently as she continued chanting despite the rising tension around her.Her attention was no longer on her surroundings but on the awareness and vision brought by her spiritual form. Astral traveling is an elaborate skill that allows one to travel beyond the bounds of one’s physical body. Astral traveling can also help one find something they are searching for. That was one of its abilities, and the only one Phaedra was intent on doing after learning Astral traveling. However, after many days, her search is hopeless. She’s long mastered the skill, among others, but she is still yet to find what it is that she seeks.Feeling her stamina at its limit, she returns to her phys
House of the Wolves Chapter 62
Even after the chaos in the coven calmed down, I still could not find it in me to pursue our personal business. It was heartbreaking enough for me to learn how Phaedra lost her sister just recently and how it affected her, and now she lay unconscious, almost burnt to ashes—almost following her sister and almost abandoning their mother.My elbows rested on my legs as I waited in the large hut, my hands tightly clasped together. Xiao stood not far away from me, looking out the window with his hands on his back. The woman, the High Priestess, had never left Phaedra’s side. Leaving us to find another way to carefully talk to her in private.“I should go there and tell her,” I said. I was well aware my curt statement did not need additional information because it’s Xiao I’m talking to.He replies with a simple grunt without tearing his eyes away from the view.“Well. . where are they?” I probed.“They are around the coven; find the hospital.”When I stood up, the door—freshly revived with
House of the Wolves Chapter 63
“Your Majesty,” Xiao’s voice interrupted my thoughts. My eyes flutter open, immediately catching his gaze. “She’s awake. Phaedra is awake.”The news immediately brought me to my feet, but after a few steps, my feet halted and suddenly gained weight—like an anvil was weighing them down. It was the hesitation keeping me rooted in my spot; unsure of my next step now that she’d regained consciousness.Do I want to reconcile with her? Do I want to antagonize her, or stay civil? Do I want to blame her like I blame Flavian?“Xiao, I-I…” I started, my tongue yielding deep into my mouth.“I…I do not know how to react. We did not exactly part with good terms, but we need her—them. I do not know what is the right thing to do.”Despite my retreating tongue and my stutters, he seemed to have understood my sentiments as his creased forehead smoothed, and he smiled—he smiled?“You must be conflicted, your Majesty. You desire to act emotionally as her friend, yet you know you came here as the Queen a
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“It is impossible to resist the royal order when the Queen herself has personally sought you out.”The Priestess, or former Priestess, irritatedly turned to him. “We do whatever we want.”Xiao replies; calm as still water, his hands on his staff. “Nevertheless, I am certain your daughter will make the right decision. She’s more levelheaded than you, after all.”“What?”As the two old people bickered, something they would never be too old for, my ears perked at the faint rhythm of something hitting the glass. I left the middle of the battlefield of the former Priestess and former General and looked for the sound. I found a window at the end of the hallway and saw a pigeon with gold-streaked feathers chipping at it with its beak, a paper tied to its foot. This was familiar, I thought. I remember giving this order of communication only if there was an emergency. Furthermore, seeing the gold streaks in the pigeon, its only sender could come from the palace because it was our secret symbol
House of the Wolves Chapter 65
“Has she sent a reply yet?”Fenrir exhales loudly, frustrated, before shaking his head.“No,” he answers the anxious General.“If she’d already read our missive, she’s likely on her way back as we speak. She would not bother to write back.”General Liefeng nods in agreement, quietly praising Fenrir’s perfect assumption of the Queen’s personality.Among them that remained in the palace, he was put in charge and Liefeng could now see why. They seemed closer than everyone thought. Liefeng looked at Fenrir’s torch-illuminated back, who was preoccupied watching over the walls as they camped in the southern watchtower. The night was deep, yet they were yet to get a wink of sleep.It was not only them. The entire Capital is awake and anxiously awaiting the attack. It was all too predictable, yet their defense was anything but stable for this expected attack.“I sincerely wish our assumption is wrong,” Liefeng admits after a moment of silence. Fenrir’s eyes slightly shook, but he did not make
House of the Wolves Chapter 66
This was not their initial plan.This was never a good plan.Soren was adamant about it, and he fought for his opinion until the last day, but everyone went against him. A few days ago, before they marched to surround the Capital, he was already confident in his master plan. The success of his plan lies in the patience they had. Unfortunately, it was a fragile foundation that was tested so early on and caused the destruction of everything that was built on it.His plan was to slowly ruin the palace from the inside, hence his spies within the royal court. He wanted the internal affairs to trouble the King and keep him occupied—and wear him out—before engaging in battle and pushing him to a wall as if putting pressure on him. To slowly burn him out, like waiting for a candle to melt its wick and use up all its wax until it’s too weakened to resist. It was a sure-fire plan.And though reluctant, the others agreed to his plan.Until more unwanted variables appeared.The King’s death a day
House of the Wolves Chapter 67
Fenrir was almost dozing off while standing, his arms crossed, when he smelled gunpowder. It was a faint smell, but he nevertheless caught wind of it after a breeze. His eyes flew open and immediately searched the source of the smell.There’s a revolution coming.When he found the nuzzles of canons at the edge of the forest, he gritted his teeth and yelled at the top of his lungs. His hot glare fixed on the canon.“Canon ball on the way! We’re under attack!”Soldiers jolted awake. His ears were filled with the sudden loudness of multiple heartbeats. He watched the canon get lit and waited for the first hit, the harbinger of a war that would go down in history. There was a sinking feeling and a sudden silence, watching the canon ball fly in the air, and eventually hit the wall. He felt the tremor brought by the impact.Just a minute ago, the morning was peaceful and quiet. The sunrise provided a warmth to relieve the coldness of the moon. And now chaos ensues; soldiers were running aro
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