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Chapter 33
High up on a snowy mountain peak, buffered by shivering winds and quailed before the icy nights which promised only to increase our suffering, five wolves stood near the edge, and looked down upon the world below.
Actually, it was four wolves; and one un-Shifted female.
Cails shook out his fur and whined. *Mother says we won't find many useful materials this far up. It will be challenging to weave anything, not just baskets. Gathering will be hard.*
*Don't worry about that* Rufias replied. *It's not like we have much to carry, anyway.*
His bright silver coat gleamed in the sunlight. That was something, at least: there weren't many cliffs around to hide the sun's warmth from us, because, well... we were already on top of most of them.
*I was able to grab some extra clothing from my tent* Cails offered, turning to look at me. *I could make them into bags if we wanted. They would hold more
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The Alpha Queen's Knight Chapter 34
Their Alpha stayed here. Her scent was everywhere. From the soft, warm blankets upon the tiny bed to a pile of clothes in one corner – it stank of her. The other one, the Stronger one, had been here recently as well; but his room was definitely the one next door. I kicked a stack of wood piled up against the wall. Stupid – how could I have been so stupid? I let them get away, let HER get away, and now, now there was no way to find them... Father wouldn't have let them get away. But father wasn't here. I grabbed one of the pillows and bit down, feeling the feathery contents sink between my teeth before I tore it to shreds. It felt surprisingly good to do. Looking around the village had filled me with anger. I couldn't tell why, though; something to do with the blankets, and the houses, and the smells of food? Is this what the Weak did all their lives? Did they warm themselves and eat well, stay close to one another when things got bad... "Son.
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~ Cillium ~ You know, I think the best part about having four feet is that the snow gets twice as many chances to crunch when you walk over it. The way the sun shines upon it though? Terrible. I'd found myself shielding my eyes pretty much every day since it'd begun falling to the earth, though I tried my best not to let Rayla see it. I didn't want her to think I was afraid of anything. Rats, I was so hungry. We were currently marching towards that path Rufias had told us about, and I
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Cheers (and howls) arose from my Pack when the ground finally came into view, not long after the trees themselves became visible. Cil had been right about that; but I wasn't about to call a stop on the middle of the slope just to celebrate what we thought we saw – especially after just seeing it had almost sent a few of us over the edge.But now that the snowy and pine-littered ground lay tantalizingly below us – visible at last over the jagged outcroppings and only about a hundred feet or so down – I allowed myself to feel some jubilation. The golden glow of dusk was just beginning now to tickle our foreheads, but there would still be enough time to reach the ground before it became too dark to see; still, I forced everyone to hurry.
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"Carta! Move that barricade a bit more outward before driving it in, will you? I'd like to have more room behind the walls."The young man did as I asked, hefting the makeshift-but-sturdy wall closer to the mouth of the cave. I didn't want anything protruding where it could more easily be seen from the outside – but I did want as much space for my Pack as possible. The small barricades were temporary; once the outer walls themselves went up they would no longer be as necessary, but we would probably still keep them for the extra protection against the snow and – Luna forbid – invaders.Surry rushed by me, carrying an armful of stripped branches. I gave her a tight-lipped smile, but in truth, I was nervously excited.About t
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Without warning, Cillium rushed me. His paws tore up the snow and his eyes were keen – he might've even frightened me if it weren't for that damn tongue he kept losing track of. "Good! Uhh- " I floundered. "Good aggression! Now, attack." Cil didn't need to be told twice before he leaped at me. We stood among the trees a small distance from our cave, making use of the brightness of day and the frost-bitten air for our own comfort: it had quickly become apparent that too many Shifters in one enclosed space – even one so large and surprisingly well-ventilated as ours – warmed up the room rather quickly. Especially when some of those wolves were putting in exercise. Cillium had already been told twice not to hold back too m
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The lights were out. Night had fallen.Across the snowy-covered plain in which a great many small abodes rested, snoring could be heard coming frequently from within by anybody close enough passing by. Or not even that in some cases; these sounds could be quite loud.Several of these tents still lay in ruins. But, most of them had been tidied up to again create livable spaces. Nearly all of those who slept within were men – men in various stages of Shifting, some human, some animal. They tossed around occasionally whenever the cold night air fluttered through some opening or another, or when a sound from out in the night startled them awake. But mostly this Pack rested... gorged on the sp
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~ Rufias ~You see, Veera had always been a woman of hardship: she had hard soles of her feet, hard-to-braid hair... she even had a truly menacing bite! But she also had hard taste in men. I think that many things about her – both the hardness that became her, and the gentleness which she nurtured – came as a result of the influences she'd allowed into her life. No fault of her own.Veera was a member of this Pack before me. When I first joined, it was after leaving a Pack further down south – one that had a better Alpha, in my opinion, but which had managed to fall apart during my tenure. It wasn't completely gone by then, but its members had become so distant an
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~ Rufias cont. ~ It was probably for the best that we played it safe for a while, until some of Elemin's moodiness had passed and he obviously began seeking another mate to fill that space. I remember even getting used to just being a familiar acquaintance to Veera, as she was just so pleasant to be around and so talented at the things she did, that I couldn't help but feel grateful to just be among those she spent her time with. I even began thinking that I'd be happy if she found herself another mate – so long as that mate was better than me in every way, because Veera certainly deserved no less. And she certainly had no shortage of interested parties; though I'm sure all of them were also equally wary of their Alpha's potential wrath, even after the fact. Some of them were even un-mated th
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