With Safiya a decent ways ahead of me, I find myself trying to hurry while still keeping myself hidden. She is moving at a decent pace as if she is not afraid of being followed. It only takes a couple of minutes for me to get close enough to see that she is heading towards the pack. What could she be doing there? Maybe she is spying on the pack for the rest of the Council? Keeping a distance back, I rely on the Earth to guide me instead of my sense of sight. She does not veer off from the path heading towards the pack. Instead, she follows it slightly to the side of the pack's territory and heads into a clearing that borders both of the properties. What she is doing there is a complete mystery to me. She sits down on a fallen log as if she is waiting for someone. After a few minutes of her sitting in silence in the clearing I have my own seat grow from behind me so that I may be more comfortable. I also have a wide swath of bushes grow all around me to keep my from being seen by the
I make it back to my room and fully plan to collapse onto the bed but find that Dante is already laying on it waiting for me. I should have known that I would not be able to go straight to bed like I had planned. As soon as I reach the bed, he sits up and starts laughing at the look on my face."What is so funny?" I grumble."How many witches and werewolves have been hooking up that we do not know about?" He says in between gasps of laughter.I smile slightly at that thought. It seems like ever since the witches have moved in we have been learning of more and more relationships. Julia has had absolutely no qualms when it comes to hooking up with a werewolf and is having the most open relationship out of everyone. There was the one teenager and novice witch and now Safiya has been caught having a tryst. "If we have learned of this many then I am sure that there are many more as well. Once it becomes known that the species are able to find a way to make it work then I am sure that the
Safiya is conspicuously absent the next morning at breakfast. I can tell by her power signature that she is here but she did not come to eat breakfast with the rest of us. Simonetta, on the other hand, had no issues coming to breakfast with the Coven. "So, Laina, when do you plan on getting the witches and the werewolves to mingle some more?" Simonetta asks. I ponder the question before answering. This would be a wonderful question to have Safiya with us for. Hoping that my hunch that they have a way to communicate with their minds, I choose my next words well. "I am hoping to have a dinner soon with both species. Considering a lot of the mingling that has happened lately, I have high hopes that it will be fruitful." I tell her sweetly. "Oh, do the species mingle often that you know of then?" She asks with a brow raised. "The few times that I know of they seem to." I admit. While I am talking Hazel is very unsuccessfully hiding the fact that she is freaking out over what I am say
We begin our walk to the training area to begin our training with the werewolves. First, I am going to teach the witches how to make the shadow people that I have been using to help the pack with their training. That way, they will be able to split up and help different groups that are different levels with their training. Eventually, I want to have the witches teach the pack members how to deal with attacks from other witches and vice versa. If possible, I want to make both the Coven and the pack function as a cohesive unit. "Laina, where are we going?" Hazel says running up to me as we all begin walking towards the pack's territory."We are going on a field trip. We are going to be working with the werewolves on training exercises." I tell her matter of factly.She looks a little nervous for a minute. I guess she is not ready to see her fling around the other witches yet. It could be interesting to watch her get flustered around everybody."If there is someone that you would like t
Julia and I each take half of the witches with us so that we can explain how to make the shadow people for the werewolves to practice with. The idea behind making the people is rather simple. Getting them to behave the way that we want is the hardest part. The person that is creating the shadow people has to be the most exact when it comes to the moves that they have to know. Since the witches do not know how to do all of the fighting stances they are going to have to learn how to replicate what Dante or I show them.Once all of the witches have learned how to make the shadow people, Dante begins to explain the combinations that the werewolves are going to work on today. Simonetta stands along the side of the wall watching as I walk up to join Dante as we show everybody what is expected of us. Trying to get it all to come together nicely is what is going to be extremely tricky. I am going to have to check each of the witch's work as well as all of the werewolf's to make sure that ever
Julia is an extremely patient teacher when it comes to the witches. It must be because she remembers how much she struggled to learn how to use hand to hand combat. I had to start her with younger kids so that she would be able to keep up. It took quite a while for her to master anything as she was not as naturally gifted physically but she still did push herself to learn as much as she could so far. We begin by teaching them the basic stances. It is important that they know how to stand correctly before hitting somebody or being hit by somebody. Some of the witches seem to catch on rather quickly while the ones that have stuck to tradition more strictly do not want to try as hard. Simonetta continues to watch us all with a stuck up look on her face. I bet that there is no way that I would ever manage to catch her out on a mat working on fighting stances. Carlina comes up to me as I work with some of the witches. She did not originally come with us to train so I can only assume th
During lunch all of the witches talked excitedly about some of the stuff that they had learned. Some of the witches were more excited about the shadow people while a few were excited at learning hand to hand combat. I make a mental note which ones enjoy the combat so that I can make sure that they are given every opportunity to practice that they can get in the future. It is mostly the younger witches that enjoyed the combat."Laina, what did you hope to achieve by having all of the witches practicing with the werewolves today? I know that I said you needed to get them together based off of the visions you have been speaking of but I cannot see what today could have possibly accomplished." Simonetta asks with a false sweetness.Just then, Safiya walks into the dining area and takes the open seat next to Simonetta. They exchange small smiles while I ponder how to answer her questions. To an outsider it might not seem like much was accomplished today but considering the past between thi
For the next couple of weeks I continue to make snide remarks around Safiya without actually coming out and telling her that I know what she has been up to. For the first week after my original remark she does not sneak out again but it is not too long before I catch her sneaking out once again. Instead of following her every time I sometimes wait just inside the door as she comes back so that she can see that I know she snuck off. The first time she seems startled and nervous but once she realizes that I am not telling anybody she starts to ignore me. Knowing that she is getting more comfortable is a bit unsettling. While I do want her to trust me I also would like for her to know that at any time I can reveal her secret. I need to covince her to be on my side if it comes down to a split between the Council members. Considering that she is sleeping with a werewolf it is hard to see her siding with Simonetta but I am sure that it could still happen.Carlina has been joining us for pr