I had slept all through the night after I was taken back to my cell, and when I woke up in the morning, I was surprised to see that my legs were wrapped in bandages and I had gauges plastered all over my back, covering all the wounds. All four of my cell mates were already awake and had kept aside my share of the breakfast along with a container with extra food.“Why do we have that?” I asked them in a croaky, dry voice.“I don’t know”. Tyra shrugged as she gave me the cup of water and steadied it in my hands. “The guards threw it in with the bandages when they brought you back”. She told me, as I sipped the water and let it soak my raspy, sore throat.“You should eat it, you’re going to need it to help you heal”. Toby encouraged as he opened the container. A big chunk of fresh bread, potatoes and fruit were inside, and I didn’t miss the hungry and envious looks on all their faces.“I’m not hungry yet”. I said truthfully. “Share it out evenly and I’ll have my share later”. I suggested,
I had been left in the room for some hours, noticing the dryness of my mouth and the increasing hunger in my stomach. With the cloth still covering my eyes, and no windows in the room, I had no idea if it was day or night, morning or afternoon. I had no clue as to how long I’d been sitting here, dozing in and out of sleep, but the numbness of my bottom and my bladder full to the brim, I sensed it had been some time. I chortled to myself as I reminisced attacking the guards, tearing at their skin just the way they had done to me. I don’t know if I attacked in hopes we’d actually make it out of the pack lands, or if it was more about revenge. The way they subjected me to such wretched punishment, over one plate! I still couldn’t grasp the absurdity of it…. Knowing they had the power to subject us to whatever they wanted and abusing it. Was it not enough that they made us live like criminals, and barely gave us enough food to sustain our hunger? They ripped our homes away, treated us lik
I huffed in annoyance when I finally cleaned the bedroom until it was squeaky clean, only to learn that my next job was being stuck in my father’s old study with Marco! The guard walked me into the room, and left, shutting the door behind him and Marco stood from his seat. He walked toward me, until he was close enough to put his hand on my back to guide me over to a pile of messy files and papers on the floor. “This is your job for the next hour, or however long it takes. I want you to shred all of it”. He said and I sat on the carpeted floor amongst all the paperwork. “Tired of your chores yet?” He asked with amusement as he casually stalked around the room. “Well, it was nice to see that your men have trashed my bedroom. Not that I’d expect anything less”. I grumbled as I picked up the first file. “Well, what can I say, sometimes they like to spend their free time getting a bit wild, and so do some of our women”. He grinned as he looked at me. “Yes, I remember clearly! The wome
An hour passed and then another, and another. I held each file and pushed it through the shredder, feeling disappointed and saddened with each one I destroyed. It just felt like another part of our old pack was disappearing into the wind, unable to hold onto a fragment of what was left of it. There would be nothing of us now…. Nothing for our future kin to know of our history, our loved ones, or even our names, we would long be forgotten, our future generations will never know who we were and that WE were the clan of the Sun wolves, our ancestors ruled these lands for hundreds of years.I sat on the floor completely mute as Marco sifted through his own work, writing things down and ordering his guards to make sure that certain sealed envelopes were delivered to the right places. It peeked my curiosity to who those letters were for and what information they contained. Each time a guard came in and left, I was so tempted to jump on them and tear the envelope out of their hands, just lon
“Don’t take too long eating, you got a long day ahead of you”. One of the guards smirked as one of their omega’s put our breakfast in our cell.“I’ll take as long as I take”. I retorted, which knocked his smirk right off his face as his lips turned up in annoyance.Toby chuckled as the guards and omega left and we huddled around our food. We gasped in surprise when we unwrapped the cloth to see extra portions of food and two beakers of water. Instead of just plain pieces of bread, we had a small chunk of butter to slather onto them, a boiled egg each and a handful of apple slices. We all groaned in delight the moment the butter hit our taste buds, when we chomped into the egg yolk and savoured the freshness of the fruit. But the moment we all finished, I noticed they were all looking at me with the same thoughtful expression.“What? Why are you all looking at me?” I asked in wonder as I wiped my mouth and cheeks, assuming I must have food somewhere on my face.“Umm, I think we all kno
Two guards hauled me away from the cell the moment we’d finished our breakfast, but in a way, I was glad to have some time away from the pleading eyes of my cell mates.To our surprise this morning, not only were we given more food again, but several cotton blankets were delivered along with it, and it didn’t take long for the comments to come about how beneficial my connection to Marco had become. They quickly pointed out that the moment I requested something, we received it and that our working hours weren’t as long and harsh as they had been before, we were being treated better than the other captives and my cell mates didn’t want to lose any of the benefits.As I got to cleaning the dirty pans and dishes in the kitchen, I couldn’t help but feel so torn. Would this be the only way I could help ease the lives they were living stuck down in the prison buildings, should I just settle as that being our only option or do I choose to not give
“Any chance you could ask for some comfy pillows”. Tyra smiled as she wrapped the blanket around her, trying to get comfy on the floor once we’d finished our breakfast. “Or some meat with our dinner would be good. Even some new shoes”. Toby joined in as he wriggled his foot, eyeing the damp and brown stains. “Mmm, yes, I could really go for some deer or fox”. Tyra moaned dreamily. “That’s enough you two”. Molly reproached them, shaking her head in annoyance, as I sat quietly trying to let their demands go over my head. “What? it won’t hurt to ask him, right?” Tyra shrugged as she sat up to lean her back against the wall. “Ask and you shall receive… it seems to be working so far”. “And that’s probably what he wants. For her to ask him for all these things, hoping he can buy her off”. Molly rebuffed with irritation, completely against the idea of me playing into his hands.
I resumed my chore, picking up the clothes and chucking them down the laundry chute after I had made the bed. Marco was still supervising, but he leaned against the wall, staring at the floor and hadn’t spoken a word or looked up since our heated battle of insults and attempt to belittle one another. I sighed heavily thinking of how different things might have turned out if we could rewind time and fix the past.“I am sorry about your sister”. I broke the silence with an apologetic tone, and he whipped his head up to look at me with an unexpecting expression. “She was young and innocent, she didn’t deserve what happened to her, I know that, and I don’t condone what my father did”. I expressed, hoping to draw a temporary line through our constant infuriating squabbles.“Then why do you keep defending him?” “Because I love him. He’s my father, he doted on me and my mo