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The Prince teaches me some more complex phrases while we are in the bath rooms. It's late when he tells me it's time to go back and have the last meal. He flatly refused to teach me words to offend, but I believe my request amused him a little.As we were getting dressed to leave the pool he showed the slightest bit of decorum and turned his back to me while I slipped into my temporary robe. One thing he didn't fail to mention on our way back to his private rooms.— The modesty of females on the continent never ceases to surprise me.- I believe. Your people don't have any,” I comment as I look at our feet on the stone floor.Mine, small and barefoot, and yours, huge and wearing black leather boots.— Why would we? Why should we hide?I open my mouth and nothing comes to mind other than a loose phrase that I've repeated so much that I think it's lost its meaning. Still, I apply as much intensity to it as I can.— Because our bodies are sacred.—Does your goddess preach chastity?On im
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Reeina teaches me how to say I'm tired in the language of wolves. She teaches me to say that I am hungry and thirsty. Saying I'm sleepy or asking for silence. It's a six-hour drive to Darebor. We have enough time to practice.Halfway along the route, the carriages stop in a town called Fernis to change and feed the horses. Is small. I can see it from my window. Many children approach, curious. I nod. They laugh. They are bundled up to their dark, attentive eyes.There is snow everywhere.When I make an involuntary movement to rub my arms, Reeina takes a rabbit fur coat from under our bench and hands it to me. I have difficulty putting it on because of the chains, and in the end I decide to just cover myself with it.I feel the Prince's eyes on me. I think it wants to say something, but it won't do that with Reeina here.Excellent.I don't feel comfortable talking to him either.Many times I look at him and think about my fate if something fatal happens to him, and it makes my head spi
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Reeina prepared three tunic dresses for me to watch Primal, but she herself informed me that “Prince Michael won't allow me to go”.I'm not sad about that.I feel nothing but anger in the days that follow.I'm trapped again, and from my new cell I can see the circular building where the fighting is taking place. There is music and noise coming from there all day, as well as being packed with people outside. As Reeina said, other than the combatants, only upper caste families can watch Primal so closely.She is a little sad, because if I'm not allowed to go, she can't either. One day after another we sit on the floor, near the window, looking out there and wondering what is happening.At least that's what Reeina does.I sit on the edge where my chains allow me to go, and I cook the hate in my chest, but I don't ask the fen to be silent. I want to know what's going on too. I want to know when my captor will die. On the first day he gets along well.— Your opponent is the eldest son of t
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A carriage takes us, and it is escorted by not two, as always, but four guard wolves. I have chains on my feet and they cannot be seen under my tunic dress the color of fresh moss. I also have shoes. They bother me. I think all the time about kicking them away, but I don't know why I don't do it. I just follow with Reeina by my side, like a doll.She washed, combed and braided my hair with colorful ribbons.I notice there isn't much lilac in it anymore. The strands are almost completely colorless, and I notice that unfortunately this doesn't matter much to me.I don't care about much today.I barely think.Through the carriage window I see people jostling outside the circular building, trying to catch a glimpse of the spectacle taking place.I wonder if they are here out of curiosity or sadism, after all wolves die in this place.Reeina said that three contestants have died so far and only the Princes and another man remain who I didn't bother to learn the name of.The guards surround
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Of course it is.She's used to it. She is one of them. I am not. Everything in this world is strange and scary. I want to go back to my island. To my bed, where I'm not chained up all the time. Where I'm not surrounded by violence and death threats. Where I don't want to die. Where my Mothers and Sisters look like me. Where I'm not an outsider and I understand everything they say.— Lyn Kim?I push his hand away and stand.My heart beats in my throat. I try to run, but the chains that bind my ankles stop me, so I can only take short steps between the chairs.I feel everyone looking at me.Wolves. Wolves. Wolves.The guards move when they see me and bar the door.They question. They push their stupid cylinders at me.Reeina comes skidding from behind and starts arguing with them to let me pass. I understand the words tzauri and Mig.Finally they go to the side and I move forward as fast as my chains allow. But I'm not going far. My captor is there in the hallway. He holds an enormous h
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He could eat me, I think, but the disturbing thought doesn't scare me. It doesn't scare me much.The door opens again and Reeina enters, preventing me from being alone with my thoughts.— Feeling better, Lyn Kim? — She asks with clear hesitation, keeping a good distance between us.I don't know what to answer, so I make an ambiguous gesture with my shoulders and hug my own body.It's cold here, but inside I feel warm.Maybe that's why my legs have goosebumps as if I'm feeling chills.— Prince Miguel will be next in the arenas — she says, barely containing her excitement. — If Lyn Kim wishes to leave, we will go now — she lowers her gaze to the floor in subservience.— No... — I respond a little too quickly and clear my throat. — No, Reeina. Let's see the fights.She smiles, satisfied, even though she's still looking at the floor, and from where I'm standing I can see her pointy teeth.I'm among wolves.**Reeina is so silent that I find it strange, but in the end I realize that she ac
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Darebor celebrated for three days.Reeina said that House Tarus was generous to the inhabitants and the other houses who came for the competition, roasting cattle and boar meat in the central square, distributing fruit alcohol, and metals that they call coins or tins to celebrate the dawn of a new Wolf King.The Prince did not return to his private rooms.Reeina informed me that he is with the healers being treated for the injuries he received, and suggests that they are very serious, but not life-threatening.— His Superior Majesty, King Mig, will recover — he says as if this were a certain thing, because after all “he is the king”.Each day she gives me some report on the state of my captor's health. Things he heard from other auri fen. Things that I don't ask, but that I feel calmer knowing.On the fourth day Reeina announces that we will leave soon after lunch back to Tarus'dei, as the healers she calls mekrai have allowed my captor to travel.I don't see him until I'm ready for t
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I make a movement with my hand so the maid stops talking.— Slowly, Reeina — I ask. — I don't understand anything you're saying.Your face flushes slightly.— Oh, Lyn Kim, I'm so sorry. I'm babbling nonstop and without thinking that you don't understand many things about our people.I nod. She does the same as if she were making a deal with me.— Hm... Let's see — He rests his index finger on his chin, thinking about where to start. - Oh yeah. Before, when you bled during the bath, I told you very little about how this works for a cannis female, like me, for example. Well, I know that human females — he points at me — have one heat a month, but we only have one a year. We call this erben.— Heat? — my voice comes out a little high-pitched when I ask.— Yes, when your body is ready to receive a male and have puppies.For a moment I think she's talking about animals, not humans, but after all wolves are very close to their animal ancestors, aren't they? Do humans have animal ancestors t
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My chest hurts.My entire body hurts.I cannot conceive the idea that Miguel will, of his own free will, die for his people, instead of staying with me.He prefers death. The honor. The duty.I prefer love, and that's why a part of me will die when it's gone.— We have gold — Arina says suddenly with her lips pressed to my forehead. — Let's help them. Let's help the Wolf King and Prince Azerai take back the throne.— Arina, don’t talk nonsense…—Their army is within the walls of Tarus'dei, is it not? — she continues, inflamed by a determination I don't know. — Let's help them get there. There must be a chance. At least a chance to win. It is not?— Arina, all the wolves are against them...— And the people of the continent?We stared at each other in silence for a long moment, mentally debating the possibilities.Is it possible that there is any hope?— This is insane! — Azerai doesn't even bother to hide his offensive tone of voice, and is looking at me. — The people of Agreis would
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— Is there a need for a reason to cause harm to another, Kim?I bite my lips.Miguel looks away. To the sea.His expression is a mystery to me, but I imagine how he must be feeling; betrayed, furious, unhappy. He barely had time to be king to his people before they unfairly took that away from him.I would like to hug him, but I just stand there next to him, my hands nervous, not knowing what to do.— The Great Houses consider the people of the continent inferior. The causes of our exile. I heard that a million times growing up — Miguel says. — Many wolves think they must die to pay for the sins of their ancestors. It was a grudge nurtured by our kings over the centuries.— Did your father believe that too?There is a long hesitation before responding.- He believed. For a long time. But he got here and didn't find the monsters he imagined. They were just… people. Like us. He wrote this in letters to me over the years. He wanted me to forget my grudge and be a king different from the
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An hour passes and nothing happens.Then two and three.Arina looks out the window of our cabin all the time, trying to see something, anything, but there is nothing, just the angry sea, full of threatening ice shards the size of ships.Is our idea really good?Dock, go down to the mainland and from there try to reach Pontis Maari?The wolves would be idiots if they didn't have soldiers on land too, waiting for us. Arina and I are small women. Of course, we have white hair and that attracts attention, but a good thick fabric cap would solve the problem. But Miguel and Azerai? They are big wolves. Much larger than common iberiis. This is not easy to disguise. A wolf with one red eye and one with gold eyes? Yes, they would go unnoticed very easily…I know that the Great Houses were trying to reach the throne of the Tarus before. I know it. But I can't help but suffer knowing that I was the trigger. Without me they would have nothing against Mig.Oh, Mother. Protect us.I don't know if p
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I tilt my face and kiss her wrist reverently.My Wolf King...— No — he pulls my face back, realizing what I'm doing. - No…We kiss as Miguel possesses my body for the last time.Our lips tremble.I can not stop crying.He cums in silence. Without blinking. His blood red eye stuck in mine. His hips push me against the wooden floor and I feel him filling me inside. The hot, thick jets, the smell of spices and the sea, running down my legs, wetting the tunic beneath me.I'm the first to look away, push away the hand that holds my face.Miguel walks away.I sit down and try to tidy up the destroyed clothes.He stays behind me.I see the movements in my peripheral vision and I guess that he is fastening his pants, his belt.He finished.His seed covers my legs. My body shudders with pleasure as I see the remains of what we did still on me. My pussy pulses like it wants some more. As if I want him back, even though I'm sore from the ferocity with which he took me.— This will be the last t
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When we board the ship it is almost lunch time. I don't know exactly how many boxes were shipped with books, but seventeen of them are full of gold that was taken from our Mothers' secret room. Everything that wasn't secured in some way was boxed up. The rest will be picked up later.We were lucky that the ship was returning empty to Agreis after its business trip to the Salt Walls. Now its holds are cluttered with books and gold. Arina and I remain silent.I don't know what she thinks, but I believe there shouldn't be silence and reflection between us. We have gold to be free. We don't even need to go back to Tarus'dei. No one can force us to go. We can ask the ship to dock anywhere on the coast and go live our lives. People on the mainland don't know us. We can use the gold to hire a guard, buy a house. Never see wolves again in my life.But I don't say anything. Neither does she.We eat meals together, then I go down to the ship's hold and read as many books as I can.Sailors don't
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We dressed in silence. Each with their own thoughts. And by looking at Miguel's distraught face I can get the idea that his thoughts are even more chaotic than mine.Was your mother a Servant of the Goddess?How is this possible?That's not possible.It is not.He is mistaken...You have to be mistaken.We returned together to the tower through the front door. We go side by side, but still in silence.I need to talk to Arina.Sleep plans were cancelled. There is no possibility of sleeping a wink with this new information before us.Azerai is near the kitchen door, talking to the Iberii. He looks at us and his gold eyes narrow in irritation, but he doesn't say anything. Miguel makes a gesture with his face and he moves away from the guards.I don't look back.I push open the kitchen door and call for Arina.She's at the sink, washing the pots and dishes from dinner, and when she looks up and sees me, her relaxed expression cools.- And now? — he asks softly.Before I can speak the door
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There is a silent climb to the upper floors. Each one entangled in their own thoughts. I don't know what's going on in each of their heads, but in mine there is absolute disbelief.Am I the reincarnation of our Mother Goddess? Mirsai?If that were true, I'm supposed to be special in some way, right? I don't feel special. I don't feel any different knowing these things. I'm just myself still. Same Kim as always. Maybe a little more tired and beaten down by the events of the last few days, but definitely myself.I still don't know exactly what my place is in this world. I don't know what I'll do tomorrow. Or today.Arina and I go to the kitchen and get busy preparing the last meal of the day. Miguel and Azerai leave together, talking quietly to each other. The Iberiis are nowhere to be seen, and I try, if only for the last minute, not to think about anything we've just discovered.**We ate bread, fried vegetables, and meat from the deer that Miguel hunted and Azerai cooked over a fire
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— Are you saying that our Mother Goddess is… somehow… a goddess of your culture? — my Sister frowns at the Prince, almost offended.I understand your irritation. We had very strict discipline over our Mother Goddess and what this wolf says actually seems like a type of blasphemy, but I place a hand on my Sister's arm and ask her for patience with a look.Let's let these wolves talk.— I think it's worth going deeper into this — Azerai continues. — Maybe it will enlighten us about the prophecy and everything else.I nod.Arina maintains her irritated expression.— Do you have any paintings or drawings of your Goddess? — Miguel asks more politely. — If she looks like any of our cannis goddesses, I'll recognize her.Lightning passes through me.A hundred memories hitting me hard.Oh no…— You said I look like your goddess of lust — I murmur hoarsely, unaware of my next voice.Miguel looks at me for the first time in the last few hours, and his red eye opens wider with surprise, understan
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— This one — I show Arina the forecast as soon as we sit together on the floor.Miguel and Azerai approach, but only the Wolf King seems interested in what we say. The Prince stands closer to the door, like a guard.My Sister tilts her delicate face to read, but it doesn't take long.- What does that mean? "Party power"?I shrug.— And this "wolf in the sky" thing?I shake my face.- I don't know-...- What did you say? — Miguel extends his hand so I can pass him the tome with the prediction.I casually look for his gaze, but he denies it. He's focused on the book, his brow furrowed in question.— I think it's related to the other prophecy — I say to Arina. — Our Sisters predicted the arrival of wolves on our beaches long before it happened. Ceisa wasn't the only one to see them coming.A brief expression of disgust crosses Arina's face, but she shakes it off with a deep breath. She opens her mouth, but Miguel talks over her.— This is a prediction from my people.We all looked at him
