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{Ciril’s POV}“Oh my goodness.” Vera started panicking. “It's real. It’s happening. There is truly a feral.”She was panicking audibly and she was doing it on both our behalf frankly. I couldn’t talk because I was too dazed to do so but then she was saying the exact words I was thinking.“We’re in deep mess, Ciril. Very deep mess!” She voiced. “What are we going to do?!” “Hey, lower your voice and calm down.” I told her, trying to be the emotionally stronger one among us. “How do you expect me to fucking calm down, Ciril?!” She retorted and I stared at her with a hint of surprise.“Since when do you cuss?” I asked her.“I cuss whenever my life is about to be over.”Good point. “Look.” I shifted closer and held her shoulders. “I know this is a terrible situation we’re in but yelling and complaining is not going to solve anything. It’s only going to call the guards' attention to us. They helped the wounded warriors into the Hencher and soon, they’ll be back out to guard the doors, by

{Ciril’s POV}I crashed to the ground roughly and bruised my knees but that wasn’t the most disturbing thing.The most disturbing was the fact that I had just been dragged from the Quarters to the courtyard, embarrassed along the way and now I was knelt before the person I least wanted to be beside. — I didn’t know it would only get worse.“I am made to believe that the Prince didn’t reject the slave girl.” I heard the Abasha girl say behind me and then immediately, my heart started struggling to break out of my chest with harsh pounds. My breathing stiffened. I promptly swiveled around to look at Abasha now and I met a cunning smile on her lips. I tensed as waves of shock and dread poured through me. How did she find out?“Is that so?” The Alpha Queen said now, her voice calling my attention back to her. I promptly bowed down my head in mercy and to avoid making eye contact with her especially since my eyes were becoming teary. “Yes, my Queen.” Abasha responded.“And how do you k

{Ciril’s POV}Vera stunned all of us with her presence. — me especially.And she stunned me more with her words. “She wasn’t in the Prince’s room… because I was.” She said and I trembled as waves of dread and confusion poured on me.The Alpha Queen looked from me to Vera and then to Absha before she looked back at Vera.“What are you saying, girl?!” The Queen bawled at her and I flinched in reaction. I promptly looked back at Vera dreadfully wondering the same thing.What was she saying?What was she even doing here? I tried to call her gaze to myself for her to make eye contact with me but then she wasn’t giving in. She was consciously avoiding my gaze.“My Queen. I’m here to confess! I’m saying that I was the one in the Prince’s Chambers yesterday.” She said and I started shaking my head gently to signify a no. I was disapproving but she was intentionally not looking towards my axis.My heart started racing faster now as I stared between the Alpha Queen and Abasha. They were both

{Ciril’s POV}I spent all night plotting an escape from my room.Prince Landon had told me that if I told the truth they would still kill Vera and they would also kill me and I didn’t doubt him because we were slaves and the lives of slaves weren’t universally important.But I couldn’t just sit back and do nothing while Vera suffers for a crime she didn’t commit. I just couldn’t.Now, it was morning the next day— which meant that there was only one day left before Vera loses her head. And I was still helpless.The Sentries who were guarding the door were doing it very strictly as they didn’t even leave for breaks or strolls, considering the fact that they were guarding a slave’s door and not someone noble.I paced around the room helplessly now and mistakenly stepped on a meat piece from last night’s food splattering. I frowned at that. I then went to sit on my small bed at the corner of my room and my mind roamed to Feryt— my best friend at RawHowl.Vera is just like Feryt. They ar

{Ciril’s POV}** Abasha, The Queen, Taka, Balizar…Abasha, The Queen, Taka, Balizar…Abasha, The Queen, Taka, Balizar!I was in my room now, seated in the silence of my melancholy. I hadn’t uttered a word in a day or two— because I hadn't gone out in a day or two and hadn’t eaten in a day or two. After Vera had been slaughtered in the presence of people who condemned her, I had been left chained up on that field for a while and then later Abasha had come over to me, telling me how powerful she was and how unfortunate I was in return. I hadn’t really paid much attention to her but she had vocally ridiculed me to her fill and then she had set me free from those chains.I was supposed to go and immediately resume my duties as a Palace slavegirl but instead, I had come to my room— mine and Vera’s room and had locked the room…. And I have been here ever since.So I don’t know if it’s been a day or two, but I’ve been seated in the silence of my melancholy for that long. I keep replaying