PRIEST Priest cracks his back as he wakes up from his living room couch. He didn't make it to the bed this time around. He had had one to many jars of sweet alcohol, something he shouldn't be doing, knowing his reputation around the pack. But a man's got to do what he has got to do, especially with the responsibility of raising a grand son and helping countless wolves on a daily basis. His life is too not basic to avoid alcohol. It's the fastest way to survive, according to a few researchers who made this comment while under the influence. I don't overdo it before I get the spirit angry like that last, and then I'd be left on my own and with my half-baked wits to council Tyson wolves. What a horror. I'm glad they returned it back the last time I met them while performing the art. I hate it when I don't have the help of the spirits. It makes the work ten times worse and harder. I don't even get holidays. The boy runs off to get breakfast from the market. I'm waiting at home on a ro
NIKOLAI. I slash another guard by the throat and he falls down on the floor with a horrified expression. He looks shocked that I killed him, he didn’t see it coming. I stare at his body for a few seconds and if I wasn’t desperate to find my wife, I would be laughing at his face. When Jacob came to me and said he wanted to fight by my side, I pictured him on a horse killing men not staying in a chariot ten miles from the war front and waiting for reports every two hours. I didn’t expect too much so I’m not exactly disappointed, in fact I’m grateful. I didn’t realise how much I needed help until I was offered it. “Look out!” my right hand man yells and I turn back to see an arrow flying towards me. I throw myself out of the way and make sure that I end the life of the person that shot the arrow. “Thanks man.” I say and he gives me a small nod before returning to killing people. “I'm heading in.” I yell and I know he heard me. I need to find Winter as fast as I can. I’m starting t
JACOB “What sort of magic is this that the men are starting to kill each other? Nikolai didn’t tell me these people had black magic. Where the hell is Nikolai?!” I thunder and he starts to stutter. “You suddenly can’t talk?!” “Jethro took him.” He says and I flinch. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go at all. “Tell all the men to retreat! All the sane ones at least, I don’t need anyone going haywire and killing anyone on the road.” I tell him and I hear his footsteps as he races back to the battle field. “Hurry!” I yell after him. The fact that they’re mindless killing wolves going around is an unsettling fact for me. My blindness is not helping either. I impatiently wait for him to return as I consider taking my chances and leaving before them. If we’re going to save Nikolai, we need more men and a new plan. NIKOLAI I should have killed Donovan myself when I had the chance. How dare that bastard?! As far as I know, only my father knows how those arrows are made. Jus
HUNTER. Ever since I told Daphne about Winter and Nikolai, she’s been more paranoid than I was. She asks a lot more questions and she sleeps a lot less. We moved into the palace five days ago just like Nikolai instructed and I’m still trying to figure out how things work around here and I feel as though I’m already failing even before I’ve started. Nikolai showed me where to find all the documents I was going to need and gave me the freedom to do as I please. I know where the lands are, he made provisions of all the resources that I might need and all that is left a for me to start making him money. The pack is going to need a lot of funds soon and the good part of this business is that their meals get taken care of. As they buy, they give back to the pack and as the pack also sells to neighboring packs, they bring in money. Although, I’m not sure if we’re still going to be friends with the neighboring packs after this war that Nikolai has gone to fight and that is not even what
JACOB “All the men have been taken hostage!” A guard reports and I growl in confusion. “What is that supposed to mean?” “The men were over powered and we’re chained like slaves.” He explains like I don’t know what taken hostage means. “If all the men were taken, how are you here?” I ask suspiciously and I hear him draw his sword. “Because I promised them you.” He answers and tries to chain my hands together but he doesn’t get a chance. I grab his wrist so tight that the sword falls from the other hand. I can’t tell where the sword is but I can tell where it’s not so I drag him out of the sword's reach. Every time he tries to land a punch, he’s several seconds too late because he’s lousy. When he’s done trying, I reach for his neck and twist it until I hear his bones break. I know I should have gone without the guards. I find my way back into the carriage, giddy up the horses, get on the road and hope that I don’t get lost. I have a keen sense of direction but I’m not sure
NIKOLAI. “You're never going to find him, Nikolai. We have to leave now while we still can.” Winter says for the umpteenth time. “You don’t know that.” I yell trying to hide my shaky voice. She doesn’t have to know that I’ve shed a few tears. “Let's assume you find him, can you stand seeing his body? Will you ever be able to live it down?” She’s right. I don’t want to find his body, I keep searching but I don’t want his body to be here. I don’t want him to be dead. “We have to leave Nikolai.” Winter repeats putting her hand over my back and caressing it gently. It’s always seems to work every time. The warmth her small hands provide always make their way to my heart. “I’m sorry I had to put you through all this. I’m sorry your men died trying to save me.” She says softly. “My men died fighting for their pack. You don’t have to apologize for anything.” I reply rather sternly and walk past her. “Grab a horse.” I command before I notice that they’re all gone. All our horses
JACOB.I have no idea where this horse is taking me and I’m scared that I’m going to die out here in the middle of nowhere. There are no people around, and if there are, I certainly don’t hear them. The carriage is barely moving, I think the horses are just as confused as I am. They’re going so slow, it’s like the carriage is hardly even moving. I should stop but why if Jethro's men catch up to me?I wonder what I’m going to die of. Hunger, fatigue? You never can tell especially when you’re blind and you can’t see your surroundings.I’ve never felt so anxious in my life before. Deciding to join Nikolai in this war was a death trap I set for myself and now I can’t get out of it. What the hell was I thinking coming to a war without my eyesight?! My mum would go insane if she found out what I did. I have a child to take care of. I have a pack to lead and I foolishly come all the way out here to fight a war that has absolutely nothing to do with me. I was definitely under a spell. I c
WINTER. “It’s suffocating sitting so close to Jacob like this but there’s not much I can do about it. Nikolai is so intent on finding his men and even I can’t stop him. I can only pray for us not to get killed. Even Jacob looks so unsure but it’s either this or he keeps riding alone in the middle of nowhere until he gets lost. I guess his family is still intact, a son, a wife and an over bearing mother. I hope all the chiefs are happy about their new Luna and the next Alpha that she bore them and I wonder if his mother is still the same. Does she still have that nasty attitude that she always gave me? “So Winter, how was your stay there. Learn any new things?” Jacob asks trying to make conversation but I don’t even make a sound.“You can’t ask her things like that!” Nikolai says quickly coming to my rescue. “Well I don’t know what else to say!” Jacob retorts almost immediately.“Well then don’t say anything or better yet, you try to come up with a plan. We have to free all the s