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Chapter 26: “I want something I can’t have.”
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The flashlight in my hand drops to the floor and the room is plunged into an eerie darkness, with silence and a chill filling the cell room. My mind fills with memories of the first day I came to the pack, where Liana had proudly announced a good year for the pack, and then after the first attack when she proudly declared having visions of a rogue wolf in the pack, and then when she accused me of what was happening because of the ‘visions’ she had. I scoff at the memories. Liana had become a liar and a cheat and had probably been punished by having her sight taken away from her. “I knew something was different about her.” Ida says. I pick up the torch and turn my attention back to the girl in the cell. “So, those prophecies of ‘a good year for the pack’-“”They were all false.” “How did you end up here?” “It is a long story.” “I want to hear it.” Dorothea carefully lowers herself to the ground and sits on the dusty floor and my heart suddenly hurts at the sight of the young girl in
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It takes all my strength to stop myself from laughing at the panic on Liana’s face. Derek and Asher both look confused by her outburst but Liana pays them no mind and snatches the letter from Derek’s hands. “There must have been a mistake, this is actually for me. I’ve been expecting it.” “The guard said it was for Derek. Isn’t it addressed to him?” Asher says. “This actually says ‘the oracle of the moon goddess’, and that’s me Asher.” She replies. Is it? After a tense silence, she excuses herself and leaves the hall. My work here is done, so I shut the hidden door and make my way back to where I came from. My new destination, is the hidden door to the office of the Luna. This tunnel is in even worse condition than the others I’ve been in so far. There are thick cobwebs lined with heavy layers of dust that pulls the cobwebs far from the ceiling. It is a struggle heading into a sea of thick, dusty cobwebs but I do it anyway. When I get to the secret door, I find that I don’t need to o
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