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Chapter 71.
It took us a full day and night to move the carts through the forest, with the sun beaming, holding back the rain, the journey wasn’t as gruelling being able to pull them along on dry ground. With the little pathway now in view of the camp, we all passed a little thankful chuckle between us, that we had made it all the way without any curious rogues in our way, or Zach!
The moment we passed the tall line of trees and saw the cabins, the cooking areas, the water well and the lookout bridge, we all simultaneously dropped the straps and looked around us with mixed emotions of being back in our old home, but being here after all this time, with it completely empty and uncomfortably quiet. You could hear the creaking of the trees as they gently swayed in the breeze and the flapping of the birds wings as they bounced around their nests. It was a comforting but odd feeling. No chatter, no hustle and bustle as everyone gathered food, water, and roasted our catch of th
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Raven - The runaway wolf Chapter 72
My body jolted itself awake under the brightness of the sun and my attention fell straight on the wolves, realising I dozed off when Izzy and Dante took over patrolling last night. I sighed with relief, thankful that nothing had happened whilst I was sleeping. My body and neck ached from resting on the hard ground with my head against the log. Izzy and Dante were busying themselves, cooking and pulling up fresh water in the well bucket for our breakfast. I got to my feet with a stretch and scanned each of the wolves, checking their medicine and moving the carts under cooler shade. “Good morning sleepy head”. Dante chuckled as he roasted more fresh rabbit. “When did you hunt for that?” I asked curiously as I finished moving the third cart. “I went out this morning while Izzy watched over the camp. I figured you’d be asleep long enough for me to hunt and get back, that way
Raven - The runaway wolf Chapter 73
It didn’t feel as lonely and cut off for me Dante and Izzy with grams, mother and the guards now with us. All the guards took a break from their duty to sit with the rest of us when we all ate supper last night. There were more voices, chatter and conversation around the camp fire, and many questions for grams about the camp she was seeing for the first time. I had slept outside again, right next to the wolves with Izzy and Dante patrolling whilst the guards had their rest, and I woke up this morning to the smell of cooked fish that two of the guards had caught from the stream. Having them all here seemed to lighten our moods as Izzy and Dante laughed hand in had to their cabin after eating to get some sleep, and grams and mother were talking so intently as they set to making more of the concoction to last the rest of the day.Under the shade of the trees I carefully tended to each wolf, sponging down their paws and snouts, cleaning their wounds and applyi
Raven - The runaway wolf Chapter 74.
Six days passed as we carried on with our chores and routine, gathering enough water and food for us all as grams and mother continued to make bulks of her mushrooms and herbs to sustain the wolves and help their muscle growth now that they were starting to wake up throughout the day. It would only last for a few minutes with their eyes opening and whimpering in fear at their new surroundings. But each time, I’d run my hand gently down their fur, and I’d smile with care, I’d tell them that they were safe and that I was a night wolf watching over them. It seemed to work enough for them to relax their tension under my hand and calmly let their eyes close again. They were even trusting grams now whenever she was nearby when they woke, she’d reassure them, and they’d listen. Yesterday, they showed their appreciation with a happy wag of their tails as we cleaned and brushed their fur, and we even managed to encourage two of them to eat some of the deer
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The following day we stood at the gates of Lundberg as the guards opened them for us, alpha Wayne was already waiting anxiously to hear the reason for our sudden arrival.“Raven, how have you all been? I really do hope you haven’t come bearing bad news”. He said as he held my hand in both of his.“No, alpha Wayne, you can relax”. I chuckled and I breathed out a sigh of relief.“Well, that is very good to hear, so, in that case, I’m guessing you’re here to check in on Leo?” “Yes I am”. I nodded with a nervous smile. “Is… is he better?” “He’s still not awake unfortunately. But we do think it won’t be long until he does. Come on, let me take you to him”. He suggested as Dante and Izzy gave me a
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Once again I had to leave Leo’s side and return back to camp. With Zach still out there, it uneased me to leave the nightwolves under little protection. When we left the gates of Lundberg, I could only hope that soon we would hear news of Caleb and my father’s return and success at finding and catching Zach, and that Leo would wake up and we could all start to move forward with our lives, no longer in fear of what hellish treachery would happen next. I had also been told by alpha Wayne that Violet had been taken back to Whitlock prison with the few guards and Whitlock men that had been instructed to start the build of the border wall. According to Wayne, Caleb still hadn’t decided whether to let Violet rot in a cell for the rest of her life or sentence her to treason by death or banishment. “What is it, Raven. You look as though you’re a million miles away in your thoughts?” Izzy asked as we slowed down our pace to a slow jog. “It’s nothing, I’m just thinking over a lot of things,
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After our encounter with the rogues, we’d hurried our journey to the Whitlock border, even more concerned that the guards may have been attacked now that we knew Zach still had followers out there willing to obey his orders. We were relieved to see men starting the build of the wall, all untouched as the guards patrolled and kept the men protected. Seeing them all alive and safe with my own eyes assured me that Violet was locked away in the damp and darkened prison tower. We headed back to camp, keeping a watch at our backs for any rogues attempting to follow us, but when we reached the grounds of camp, I was astonished to see all the night wolves happily walking around, tending to the chores and gathering more wood for the camp fire. “You’re all back!” Grams gushed as she came bounding over toward us with a welcoming smile. “How was Leo, was he awake?” She asked after kissing me on the cheek. “No, but I did put my letter in his room”. “Oh”. She replied, with a sympathetic look.
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Over the next few days we all worked together to keep the camp running smoothly and I started to slowly reintroduce the night wolves into hunting again. I took the lead but encouraged them to use their senses. To allow the earth beneath their feet feel the movement of their pray and to breathe in the air that would lead them the way of their next meal. For so long all of their senses had been weakened and almost completely diminished, it made them feel confused and frustrated to feel as though they were learning the advanced skills of a night wolf all over again.I had still avoided telling them of Zach’s rogues still lurking in the forest, and whilst they slept at night in the cabins, I’d secretly patrol the grounds with some of the guards, then come up with all different kinds of excuses to retreat to my cabin during the day to catch up on my rest. I could see how hard they were all trying to adjust being back on forest grounds after so many years of hiding away in the mountains, an
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“Stop thinking so much about it and just feel it. Relax into the earth, you need to stop letting the fear control you!” I instructed the night wolves as they all sat crossed-legged on the forest floor. This was the third time over the last three days I had been trying to help them voluntarily shift into their wolf forms. With grams’s help we were trying to use the same techniques she had used on me, to rid me of my self doubt. But for them it was fear… fear that both their human and wolf forms felt. They were feeling so much mistrust with our world, scared to let their wolves come forward, only to be left vulnerable again, to be trapped, hunted down and used for someone’s own gain.I had taken the time to sit down with each of them, trying to reassure them that the world wasn’t the way they remembered it. No alpha was coming to claim them, and Zach wouldn’t make it past me, Dante and our guards to get to them. So long they had lived without connection to the world outside of the mount
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