SOMA: “Mark, I have to go now,” I announce, getting up from the training mat set up outside the main quarters. A sudden odd feeling just took over me. Really strange to me I just say because I have never felt that way before. Feels more like a thorn in my heart and I can’t seem to explain how it came to be. “Where to?” Mark’s voice gets to my hearing, bringing about a further confusion in me. Can’t even say how much bother I am going through at the moment. “I don’t know,” I say, and with already somewhat conviction of what I have in mind, add, “My room, maybe,” “Are you okay?” he asks as I begin to take a move say from the location to head into the building to freshen up from the sweaty skin of mine. I should respond to Mark’s question but I do not see the reason for suc

SOMA: I have proof that he is alive. It wasn’t enough smelling his scent off the piece of clothing I saw on the floor, but at least, it gave me a clue about his existence. And the feeling, the bond that I should say pulls me toward him, was still there. Faint, but still functioning. Even with no idea of his whereabouts until I left the premises of the Dark Moon territory, I already have something figured out. And it is to start to look for a means of saving him myself no matter the cost that it takes. I’m going to make whoever caused this disaster pay in double folds. ‘Cassie! Get my weapons ready. I’m almost at the quarters,’ I apparently yell into the link with my sister as I drive to the main quarters of our pack. ‘What do you need them for?’ she throws back a question at me. ‘Just get them ready,’ and I block off the link

SOMA: “The Black Lotus,” Tyrone says and then looks over at every one of us circled around the round table, landing his gaze on me eventually. “We think that is the group that wreaked havoc on this pack yesterday. And not that we are thinking about it anymore, we might have as well concluded that it is their doing,” The first thing I do when he released the information to the round table is to first have a look at the rest of them to get their reaction... apart from Tyrone himself. Hailey, Leonard, and Zane the head warrior all had the same reaction — neutral. Probably because they were informed already about how this meeting was supposed to go. Mark, instead, gave out a little twitch. That, I was able to observe as he was seated beside me. Well, they all gave out something one way or the other. Now it is left with me. “And what group is that?” I suddenly say

SOMA:   “Hmph, new hair,” Leonard comments as I make my way to the front where he is seated alongside several warriors that I can hardly make out their identity. There is also Zane who, to me, isn’t dressed like he is accompanying us on the mission.   “Yeah,” I say as I bend with a knee to the ground to lace my booth for the umpteenth time. I don’t know the reason I still haven’t gotten it right.   “Black sure looks good on you. But why did you have to dye your hair black now?”   As much as I want to facepalm myself for how stupid that sounds, I still have to finish the lacing of my booth so I keep it in me. But when I stand upright eventually, I shake my head in disappointment. Really disappointed that Leonard would even make such a ridiculous statement.   “Leonard,” I start by calling his name in a manner that reverences my disappointment, “You already know what we are going fo

LUIS: The liquid from having sweated a lot trickled down my skin. And at this time it was a lot uncomfortable for me because I could not reach out to wipe it off lest it made the tingling sensation in my body like it is doing now. I wiggle my body a little, with the hope of reaching for my pit. The rattling of the chains that I am bound to make a lot of noise from my tiny movement that I am sure I am going to alert those who put me in here. It was a useless bid to try to change the course of direction of the bead of sweat because I can suddenly feel it go down my right pit in a manner that has me wanting to shake it off me. I may have gone a week bound this way. I have no idea what the time is or how long I have been placed in this hellhole. I just know that I opened my eyes to this place and have been like this all along. I have yelled a lot and requested to know the mastermind