United Kingdom, December 2010
The sky covered with clouds made the air in the City of London feel cooler. Even though the snow had not yet fallen, a woman repositioned the gloves she was wearing so that they fit and could ward off the stinging cold. December always makes her rub her hands to keep them warm.
The woman nervously glanced at her watch as if rushed by time. However, her anxiety grew when her cellphone rang. She took a brief breath before picking up the call from her father, Thomas.
"Hello, Dad?"
"Are you at the airport?" The deep voice of the boy softly asked.
"Yes, soon will be leaving."
"I don't know why you even asked for a vacation to Denmark for your graduation gift," Thomas said, making his daughter bite her lower lip, holding back both nervousness and anxiety.
"I want to experience what it is like to be in a country that is said to be one of the happiest countries in the world," the woman said with a small chuckle.
Thomas laughed softly too. "Okay I understand, be careful and like I will find it difficult to contact you, because you will be serving in one of the remote areas on the border with Jordan."
"Of course, Dad is careful there too."
"All right, I'll miss you. Get on the plane."
The lady disconnects the call first. She then got up from the iron chair, but before taking a step while pulling her suitcase, she opened her passport first.
Megan Charoline Guietto. That's the name written.
Megan took a deep breath before walking away. She will soon fly to Norway. True, she lied to Thomas that she was going to Denmark. It can't be helped, her father who worked as an active soldier strongly prohibited her from visiting Norway, even though her childhood was spent in the Scandinavian country.
Not without reason Megan came to Norway, even if it was forbidden by Thomas. It all started with a book that was sent to her after officially graduating from college. A book that should never have been sent. A book whose owner's name is Helena Varie Guietto. Helena who is her older sister who died ten years ago.
Megan has been trying her best to find out who sent the book. But she didn't succeed, the only thing she was trying to do now was to go to Norway. The book received is like a diary, in which Helena seems to write down her teenage life there, to be precise in the City of Bergen. She was sure she was also in that period, but was still young and didn't understand anything.
Surprisingly, Megan read Helena's writing as if her older sister was in the past and the writing was interrupted right after Helena wrote that the woman fell in love with something that shouldn't be.
Actually Megan is also a little curious about the cause of Helena's death. Thomas only told me that Helena died, due to illness. But as she remembered Helena, her older sister was very healthy and active.
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After traveling in the air for several hours, Megan finally arrived at the Norwegian capital, Oslo. Like other capitals, the city is bustling and very modern. It's just that her childhood memories weren't very useful for really adapting to the city. Luckily she was still quite fluent in Norwegian, although she had heard that the Norwegian was quite fluent in English as well.
Oslo is not Megan's main goal. She still has to continue her journey, but is the Hardanger area which is close to the second largest city in Norway, namely Bergen.
But this time Megan decided to fill her supplies in the city of Oslo and while making plans for where to live when she arrived in Hardanger later.
Megan looked at the snow-covered hills from behind her hotel room. Being in a Scandinavian country made him think of Luvita—her mother who came from Norway. Her mother died before she could even learn to run properly.
Initially Thomas invited Luvita to live in England, but after Megan's birth, he could not bear to always leave his wife with his child. Therefore, he brought Luvita back to Norway where there was Luvita's sister Ariana who could accompany his wife. But after Helena died, he brought Megan back to England.
The next morning Megan begins preparing to head to Bergen. The cold air did not discourage her from leaving. She chose to use a plane that had a travel time of only about one hour to arrive. Then she continued by taking the train to Hardanger. In fact, she knows that Ariana—her aunt still lives in Bergen. It's just that she intends to visit later after returning from Hardanger.
Megan held Helena's notebook in her hand. She occasionally reread her older sister's writing, turning her head toward the window. But the view of the mountains that looked steep and rocky, covered in snow made her eyes always amazed. Not to mention if the train line crosses a small river through which water flows.
A view that according to Megan she would never encounter in the City of London, where every day is crowded and there are only buildings close together or skyscrapers.
While reading Helena's writing, a passage caught Megan's attention.
Sometimes I feel like this isn't real, but it's not a dream.
Like he looks like any other man.
But when the moon shines, her true self begins to reveal who she really is.
I know it's dangerous, but I can't stay away from it either.
Megan took a deep breath. She clearly understood that the writing referred to Helena's romance. However, the artist who sounded so poetic made her wonder who he was in Helena's writing?
A trip that took two hours finally brought Megan to Hardanger. She had booked hotels near Hardangerfjord. In Helena's writings, many describe the beauty of a fjord, a bay caused by melted glaciers that forms a lake connected to the sea between steep cliffs.
Once Megan saw first hand the fjord that Helena was referring to. Now she feels amazed and amazed. After putting down her suitcase and changing clothes, she immediately enjoyed lunch at the restaurant inside the hotel. Even though her body felt tired, she didn't want to waste the opportunity to fall asleep on a sunny day.
Megan was wearing thicker clothes and intended to take a walk outside. Not quite a thick jacket, she also wears a scarf, gloves, socks and boots and skullcaps to cover her head.
Before entering her room earlier, Megan heard that the back of the hotel was a small village where residents worked as fishermen. She was curious and then headed to the village after successfully renting a bicycle provided by the hotel.
Fortunately, the roads were not always covered with snow, which made Megan quickly reach the countryside by the coast.
One resident who knows that Megan is a foreign tourist is then served a drink consisting of a mixture of wine, vodka, brandy and rum. Making the drink immediately warmed Megan's body.
Megan also heard several stories about long-standing villages as well as stories of the Vikings, who are known to have come from Norway. However, because these residents had to return to sailing, Megan finally decided to tour independently. She continued walking away from the coast towards the deeper part of the countryside.
When going home Megan accidentally saw the village's name sign, which became familiar in her head. But suddenly she realized that it was one of the place names mentioned in Helena's notebook. She opened her bag where she carried the book and looked for a page about the writing that contained a village called Dasford.
Megan's chest flutters as she reads the section where the Jazmore forest is located after the village of Dasford. She immediately spurred her bicycle towards the forest that Helena was referring to, armed with writing, not a digital map on her cell phone. After arriving, she only found tall trees, but one thing caught his attention. Namely, it looks like the ruins of a building where in the middle there is a well.
Megan saw that the water had almost reached the top of the well, but it had frozen because of winter. The well that has a short size makes it run on the edge of the well. Slowly her feet stepped onto the frozen part. The smile immediately measured on her face as soon as she succeeded in doing so, this was her first experience standing on top of a frozen well.
But it turns out to be the beginning of disaster for Megan. The well frozen in water looked so sturdy and impossible to thaw even if winter turned to spring. It took at least a few days, but it turned out that the frozen water cracked like glass and made Megan's body fall down.
Megan's eyes widened, she could feel her body getting wet, slowly turning unbearably cold and before her vision faded. She remembered that why she stepped into the frozen well, because Helena wrote things like that in her notebook.
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Slowly Megan's eyeballs moved even though they were still closed. A resounding sound of bells jolted her to the spontaneous opening of her eyes. But the eye was immediately wide open as soon as she saw two pairs of middle eyes staring at her.Besides, Megan can feel her whole body getting wet. She slowly tried to rise from her current position of lying down. As soon as she stood tall, she passed her eyes around the place.Still the same, there's a well where Megan stands on it. Strangely, however, the sighting of the well is far from previously filled with moss, dull even some parts have cracked.This time Megan saw the well as if it was maintained and when walking near it, the water did not freeze. She jumped in disbelief, especially with a small building next to the well. And as I recall, there were only trees whose leaves had fallen."Who are you guys?" Megan asked quietly.Megan's attention was
Megan who has been through her life in Norway for three days can only take a deep breath. It wouldn't matter if she was in 2010, but in reality she was stuck in 1945.Now Megan really understands that she is not dreaming or hallucinating, but rather her life is completely thrown into the past. During her time accepting the reality, she preferred to spend time at Ann's house.But today differently, Megan decided to go along with Ann and Rudo to one of the markets selling various food needs.The market mostly sells wheat, seafood and fruits. It happens that spring makes the garden on the high ground fertile.Megan even borrowed Ann's dress which was below the knee-length. But when she wears it, the waist size of the dress is quite narrow. She usually sees dresses like that only in Little Women or Jane Eyre movies. Very classic, but also graceful.Ann even styled Megan's hair and tied it up with
No matter how much she understands and adjusts, in fact Megan is still fixated on what happened to her. Her days are nothing but trying to be a girl like Ann doing homework, while occasionally visiting plantations or ports. She missed the morning where the first thing she did was check the timeline on every social media account she had.The only striking thing Megan notices is Rudo's anxiety every time she comes home. Usually the man will only read a few books borrowed by Ann from the local library while enjoying a brew of unfected coffee. But this time she could see Rudo who seemed to be sitting face down with his eyes down.Megan tried to get close to the man. However, she is indebted to Rudo and Ann who are ready to accommodate her. She didn't imagine being anywhere else, not sure if it would be as good as she was at Rudo's house.Megan's buttocks sit on a wooden bench in the living room, where Rudo is currently. It just so happe
Megan's feet kept paddling with Ann until she reached the last village. They stop after Anna says that their route will be steep and difficult to travel by bike. Therefore, the two left their bikes to one of the traders who is still Rudo's business partner.Before Megan and Ann left the merchant's house. Both were given headgear on the forehead which is said to be a shield from attacks by wild animals. Although Megan doesn't really believe it, she still wears it as respect and gratitude."The sun is about to set... and in front of it was just a wilderness," Ann said looking at Megan who seemed to exhale her eyes while taking a deep breath.Megan wears a bag behind her back, just like Ann. Bags made of knitted fabric contain robes that prevent the cold of the night or at times of rain, food and drinks and matches to warm the body after picking up twigs and flashlights that have limited batteries.Megan and Ann stand
The roar of Megan's breath is increasingly audible. Her eyes were beaming forward, a light flashing among the trees. Her hand kept holding Ann's hand in the cold of the night."What do you know about this place?" Megan asked with her eyes constantly on alert.Ann came to see the light up ahead. "As far as I'm concerned, it's just a trade route that people don't live in. It's near the Swedish border."Megan then turned to look up at the sky. "It's been a full moon for a few days."Ann flashed a thin smile. "I've heard people say that it's time the moon would shed blood."Megan became gasped to hear it. "What?" She found it a little funny that the moon would shed blood."Rudo has also said that at that time monsters would go out looking for prey, so in the past people were often lost and ... just left a drop of blood," said Ann in a slow tone, but it sounded serious.
Nothing scarier than being cooped up alone in a room that doesn't even know who the owner really is. Megan, who's been locked up for three days, always can't sleep well. She realized that she was in a castle-like building. A place he didn't really think existed.During those three days, especially at night, Megan felt that someone was constantly paying attention to her. What's more, it was the sound of wolf howls that made her curl up in her filter.One thing that also makes Megan wonder is that she was only given water and fruits during her captivity. She did not know why she was being held at the site. But today she is determined to escape and try to find Ann and Rudo.The only gap Megan could use to escape was a window covered by a fairly long curtain.Megan's brain is trying to figure out how long the curtains and height are now. However, it was a little disturbed as soon as the sound of the room doo
The sound of wolf howls was unable to beat the roar of the waves that rocked the cliffs along the fjords of the Movaro region. Megan still freezes silently with what she has just seen, however she can see and feel her torn top. With her hands shaking, s he tried to cover the area of her chest.Yagur looked around, then turned to stare at the still-happening lunar eclipse. He then looked at Megan again and immediately grabbed the woman's body holding her."Sir, it looks like it's from the Alpha Eden pack," Eslor said, approaching Yagur."I know. I'm not going to let Eden be that easy to meet with her," Yagur replied, glancing at Megan at a glance."Command our whole flock to locate Eden and his flock. I'll take Eden away."Like a gust of wind, Yagur then moves away Megan's body by entering a forest area. His running legs seemed to float and were painless as he walked on steep rock
Eden's arrival brings Megan to be welcomed by all the Werewolves and their Mates in the castle owned by the Eden family. They were in human form bowing when Eden climbed the castle steps."Sir, let me clean her body," Silvina said, Mate of Perol who is half human and half Werewolf.Eden nodded briefly. "I'll leave it to you.," he said, leaving Megan's body in a tub made of wood. The tub is in a semicircular place with a hollow roof to get sunlight or the moon to sneak in and the place is at the top of the castle. A place where Eden used to clean himself without anyone having the right to use it.Silvina then calls a mate from another Werewolf to help her. Megan's eyes kept closed despite the flow of water and Silvina's soft touch that cleansed her body.After finishing Megan put on a dress with some layers of fabric to ward off the cold air tonight. Her body was then laid on Eden's bed. A night without a full