After hesitantly accepting Rand's offer to stay for a little longer, Dante, Amora and I all head back through the town with him. My father keeps shooting me looks that I cannot decipher while Eric looks completely intrigued by all of it. I am sure that this type of thing does not happen often, or ever honestly."So, how did you find us?" Rand asks us politely."My grandmother managed to track him down. Not quite sure how but she told me where to find him and even told me about your battles with the witches. That is why she did not come as well. She did not think that a witch would be accepted." I explain.There was no need to say who the "he" was. Everybody knows exactly who I am talking about as they all turn towards my father and study him briefly. He at least has the decency to squirm a little under our scrutiny."I wonder how she managed to find me. I thought that I had hid my tracks well." He finally says to us all.I am completely caught off guard by this. Why had he tried to hi
It is hard to focus as we finish our walk back to the pack house. Nobody bothers talking or trying to be polite for the rest of the walk. It is completely silent. Completely tense as well. It only takes us a few more moments to get back to the pack house without any interactions between the six of us.Once we get to the pack house, we all clutter inside the entry way. I shift uncertainly as almost everyone's attention is on both my father and myself. The tension in the air could be cut with a knife. Nobody speaks as well all take turns looking between ourselves, questioning what to do next."You invited us to stay. So, now what?" I ask Rand defensively."Now, we need to rest for a while before we try to get to the bottom of what really happened all of those years ago. We all know that something did. Until we learn the full story from both of you nobody will be able to look for forgiveness. After what you did for the pack with the witches, we owe you some closure for sure." Rand says t
"Wait, your daughter is one of the girls that was taken? If she is with our pack right now then I have to warn you, she was brainwashed tremendously. The girls that I have barely speak and do not have minds of their own. All they believe in is serving witches." I admit to him."What did they do to her? She was always strong willed. That is how she was taken. She never listened when we told her to stay close." He says."I am not sure what all they did to the girls. I do know that we are working with them to get them back to themselves. They completely shut down unless a witch is there to help out so we have had my Coven stepping up and helping out as often as possible. We will get them back to themselves though. If you want we can set up a time for you to come and see if one of them is your daughter." I offer.Rand looks completely flabbergasted that his daughter is still alive. To find out that witches have somehow managed to brainwash her has to be a big shock. If we could get the gi
As soon as we step into the big room to begin mingling, Frank walks off on his own. He did not bother to say bye or wave to me, he just left us. Guess that I did not really expect much else from him after his warm welcome. The rest of the pack all stop what they were previously doing to come up and say hello to us.It completely amazes me that everybody in the pack is willing to come up and introduce themselves when they are all this downtrodden. How long is it going to take for the pack to get used to any sense of existence again? They have been stuck down here so long that they most likely do not remember what it is like to be above ground all of the time.We shake hands with werewolves of all ages as they walk by us one by one. Many of them exclaim over how happy their Beta must be to get to know his daughter again. There are quite a few that even say that he must have had to get away to conquer his excitement over seeing me again. It is good to know that they all have this lev
Rand's eyebrows raise when I accidentally let my snort loose. Whoops, I was hoping to hide my feelings on that matter a little better. It was hard to control when my father will not even try to spend time with me. He wants absolutely nothing to do with me and yet he is willing to help all of these orphans. "You seem surprised that he is helping with the orphans. You do know that you were his inspiration for helping them right?" Rand asks carefully."I might have been but now he wants nothing to do with me. He tried to kick me out as soon as we arrived here and he has not exactly been welcoming since." I admit."He will be. I know him pretty well by now. He has wanted to see you every day for as long as I have known him. He told me that he was only on his own for a couple of months before he landed here so almost the entire time since he left he has been thinking of you. It was quite a shock to see you here. Even for me. I am sure that he will come around." He says confidently."I am
The expedition above only consists of 5 others. They all gathered around nervously when Rand announced that I would be going topside with them. Nobody has heard about what happened when we arrived so as far as they know it is still a dangerous expedition. The witches do not know that I am still here so I think that I will keep it that way for now. I can make myself look like another werewolf to see if they try attacking me at all. Or any of the others. I will not sit idly by while they are being attacked. It is something that I will stop no matter what.Only men are going up since they are so worried about the women. I do want to antagonize the witches into attacking though so my disguise is going to be that of a woman even if it is not me. The men all look at me worriedly when they see that I am going with them but Rand assures them that I will be fine. Everybody surrounds me as we make our way up top. I debate on getting on the outside but that is not something that any other fema
"I am sorry to have bothered you again. We will just be leaving now." The witch says to me."Wait, what is your name?" I ask."Why do you ask?" She says worriedly."I want to make sure that if I have to find you later I make it as easy as possible on myself." I sneer.She gulps worriedly before saying, "Au..A...Aurora."Wow, my reputation must be even more fierce than I thought. If she is this scared of me then what all has she heard? From an outsider's standpoint I guess that I might sound scary. I did manage to overcome a lot in a short period of time.I also have to wonder why none of them have mentioned Elle or Morden yet. They had to have made it there by now. If so then I can only assume that these witches have heard talk of them. Their job was to make sure that we could get to the pack easily. Travelling at their speed they should have made it the night that we stayed in the cave. What could have happened to them?"Thank you for telling me your name. I expect that I can trust y
"How exactly am I supposed to believe that you just so happen to be on our side, have defeated all of the witches that have been plaguing us for years now, and have found our lost pack mates? It cannot all be a coincidence. Whether you are actually related to Frank or not, I find it extremely hard to believe that this is all just happenstance. That you just rescued them out of the kindness of your heart and that you want nothing more for doing so. Are you going to use them as leverage? Is that what you are really after?" He shouts at me.I had really been hoping to avoid more of a show than I had already given all of them. I did not want to go into all of this right here. Before we know it, the entire pack is going to know and I will never get any peace. Whether they are all peaceful or out for blood, that is not something that I am ready to determine. I do not want all of them to fear me either. Sadly, there is a good chance that that is going to happen after the display that I just