Chapter 14: An Ambitious Heart

POV ALFRED

Whether Richard has arrived at the festival, that doubt is eating away at me.

It is not long before the Skyfallers assume their beastly identity and greet the guardians who will appear in the sky in the form of light, and display their shining immortal wolf figure to fortify the pact with the warriors who always rely on them for protection.

These are secrets that are not for an outsider like Richard to witness, because with his disbelief he would sell us as freaks to the rest of the men in the big city and it would be a matter of time before they would invade Skyfall and steal from us much more than the treasures, our sacred legacy.

" Do you feel that, Alfred?" Akira's voice cuts through the images of a battle waging in my imagination, where the men of the big city use firearms for being cowards and the Skyfallers maintain their dignity to fight like men to the end.

I don't deny that I hate them all and that is such a bad feeling to have, because Selena is descended from