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“Unfortunately so, the story goes on…” Sighed Andrew. “So after she killed herself, Mayor became even more angry with the world and started building his own pack, this time of humans. Of course, nobody knew about him being a werewolf, but he definitely had a powerful vibe around him, so becoming a Mayor and gaining influence on a neutral land became easy.”
“Sorry,” I interrupted, “What’s a ‘neutral land‘?” It was Hannah who answered me, simultaneously handing me a cup of hot chamomile tea. What an angel.
“Sweety, it’s a land that doesn’t belong to any pack and no one can claim it, because the elders. decided long ago, that there should be wolf free territory, thus restricting packs to their own land and making Alpha’s duties easier. Neutral land is used to travel, to organize meetings between pack leaders, to study. Also it makes human life’s easier, because can you imagine living surrounded by all those powerful souls? Humans would be subdued and extremely uncomfortable, which may
cause imbalance in everyone’s life.”
“Oh, I kind’a get it, I think…”
“Ok, so here comes the disturbing part…” said a grim Andrew. Jonathan and Nathan furrowed their brows, the twins only sighed, Lena squirmed in her seat, Hannah and Shirley sat on both sides of me, s silently giving me their support.
“I have no idea how the council wasn’t informed about that, but Mayor started gathering rogues around him. I have looked through the towns newspaper archives, and found out, that the woods surrounding it are considered dangerous. People gone missing, animal attacks and all that shit. I think, it were the rogues, but I have no way to prove it. But what I can prove is the high concentration of rogues specifically around that town.”
“But it’s unusual for rogues to stick together, they are all crazy…” Lena said thoughtfully.
“Yes, but rogues are different. Apparently he managed to gather those, who considered their banishment unjust and are eager to have a pack again. But they hid well, I have no idea for how long, Henry discovered them by accident and by pure luck stayed undetected.”
“Who’s Henry?” It was me again, yes, I felt stupid and slow, but I truly have no idea who the’re talking about and get confused.
“Our tracker. So, he remained undetected by pure luck, but managed also to stick around for at while. He found out, that the Mayor is planning to address the council and ask for permission to form his own pack from those rogue wolfs, claiming it would be an act of mercy. But I think, he is planning something bigger and Mercy has nothing to do with his plans…”
“We need to speak to the council. Have you notified them yet?” asked doc Evans. His crossed arms.
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were strained, there was no hint of my fluffy grumpy old man left, he was the most serious I’ve ever seen, and that moment I realized, that my problems were the least of what’s been brewing…
“No, not yet, I haven’t even had a chance to tell Nathan about it.”
“Good. We need to think this through very carefully.”
“Agree. Alpha, what do you want to do?”
For a moment there Nathan looked really tired, but his strength never faltered. He appeared deep in thought for a couple of minutes, and then shared his conclusions.
“First of all, I think we need to come clean to the pack, tell them about Emily. Even if the Mayor and his son aren’t the ones after her, she still may be caught up in the middle, and better if her powers
were a surprise to our enemies than allies.”
“We can’t do it now.” Shirley spoke for the first time, I think?… “We need to wait until the child is. born. The pack will want proof, the council will want it, and until she gave birth, her powers will stay dormant.”
I was only able to follow the conversation as a bystander now, because this was so much deeper then I could have ever imagined. I was a vet, tactical planning was not my strongest point.
“Damn…” sighed Nathan. “I don’t like the idea of waiting for so long, but I guess if we can maintain the surveillance on those rogues, we could…”
“Yes, I agree, we should wait.” said Jonathan. “But that doesn’t mean doing nothing.”
“What do you suggest?” asked Nathan,
“We summon Nick, that’s for sure. We put a warrior to Emily at all times, that’s also a given.”
“Ok, that is manageable.”
“We continue surveying the
“Of course.”
rogues.”
“And we work on what and when and how to inform the council.”
“That’s going to be the hardest part…” Nathan sighed again.
“I know. But Shirley is right, we can’t go to the council with assumptions only, we need proof.”
Andrew spoke up: “I say until Nick arrives we do nothing. He’s the lead warrior, he is good in tactics, he spent the last 6 months with the council, he knows them better then we do.”
“True again.” Nathan agreed. “Then we summon Nick. Andrew tell Henry to stick around for a while longer and we need to figure out who to attach to Emily.”
“We can do that” said Lena pointing to herself and the twins. “I am a warrior already, and I will not make Emily feel uncomfortable, so are the twins.”
“Not me though.” Seamus said with a small blush on his cheeks. “I’m not a warrior, I would rather prefer digging into books and figuring out the Mayors motives.”
“Don’t fret, bro, I’ve got the muscles, you’ve got the brains!” Exclaimed Simon with a huge grin on his face. Doc Evans only face–palmed himself, muttering under his breath something like: “Does he not realize what he just said?…”
