[12.1] A War is Whispered

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The Land Beyond the sea is the land of men. Men have trained dogs to obey their will, and one day, they will want wolves.

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[Kayos]

I had no reason to be as angry as I was at this moment. Perhaps anger was not what it was, if it were I would have taken the sun out of the sky, released my wolf into the wild forest to hunt, or sent a shadow to harvest a soul.

Frustration?

No. That was not this feeling. Could it? That I had hoped, for one thing, to open her up so I could see the secrets Selene had hidden within her. To control her fear.

I had even become a friend... a foreign word to me. A want I had let go of wishing for YEARS ago, now just offered to me so casually.

Instead of clearing that fear, I chose to speak the truth without any true obligation. Just because I did not wish to lie, I told her the truth about the dark nature within me.

Why was I picking what to give? What obligation did I have to tell the truth? A friend, she called me. I had already broken the rules. I w