The New Moon Mate のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 141 - チャプター 150

I sat down on the flat stone beside Elias and looked at the old woman with the cane.“Say it again,” I said.Ilse put both her hands on the cane and stood in the moss with the green trees above her.“The curse is in the ground,” she said. “The whole of it. The bargain the old Alpha made in 1897 and the death of the boy in 1948 and the death of your brother in 1975 and the whole of the seventeen years your mate carried it. It all went into the ground at the full moon and the ground took it and the ground is holding it.”“And?” I said.“And the ground is the land and the land is the territory and the territory is going to be here for as long as there is a Circle Pack.” She looked at me. “The ground holds what it is given and it does not hold it forever. It gives it back. It gives it back to the keeper and the keeper gives it to the next keeper and the next. And every generation the ground is going to give back a piece of what it took.”I stood up.“Then the curse is not broken,” I said.

I read the paper twice and then I put it down on the stone and put my hand over my mouth.“Ruth,” I said. “My mother’s sister.”“Your mother’s sister,” the Alpha of the Alphas said. “She was taken to the room in 1954 and she has been in it for twenty-five years. She was the one who went to the Council in 1954 and told them the Luna was alive and the Council put her in the room with the rest of them.”I sat down on the stone.“She has been in a room for twenty-five years,” I said. “And I have been in this territory for twenty-six and I did not know she existed.”Elias put his hand on my back.“Wren,” he said.“I have a whole family in a room in Boise,” I said. “Eleven cursed wolves and my mother’s sister and the whole of them have been in a room for twenty-five years and nobody in this territory has said a word.”The Alpha of the Alphas stood in the circle.“The Council did not know,” he said. “The Council has been told that the room was a hospital and the wolves in it were sick. The r

We went to the gap.The truck was stopped in the road with its engine running and its lights on and there were twelve wolves in the back of it and they were sitting down and they were not moving.And in front of the truck there was a woman.She was old and she was small and she had gray hair and a coat that had been mended in a dozen places and a burn on her left hand that went from the wrist to the fingers.She was standing in the road with her hands at her sides.“Alpha,” she said. “I am the keeper of the room and I have brought the twelve home.”I stood in the road.“Who are you?” I said.“My name is Mary,” she said. “And I am the miller’s daughter’s granddaughter and I have been the keeper of the room since 1939.”The road was quiet.“You have been the keeper of the room for forty years,” I said.“I have been the keeper of the room for forty years,” Mary said. “I was taken to the room in 1939 when I was nineteen years old and I was put in it with the rest of them and I was the onl

We went to Boise in the night.There were six trucks and the whole of the line and the whole of the pack and the twelve from the room and the keeper of the room and the old Beta and the whole of the eleven Alphas of the north and we went down the ridge road at midnight with the headlights on and the snow coming down.I rode in the first truck with Elias and June and Mary and the register on my knees.And the assassin walked beside the truck.He had come out of the trees at the gap and he had asked to come with us and he had not said a word since. He walked in the snow at the side of the road with his black coat and his hands in his pockets and the whole of the line watched him and did not say anything.At Walla Walla we stopped for fuel and the assassin came to the window.“Alpha,” he said. “There is a thing I have to give you.”He put a book in my hand.It was small and it was black and it had a lock on it and the lock was broken.“What is it?” I said.“It is my diary,” he said. “I h

The chamber broke.I did not wait for it to come back together. I took the wire out of June's hand and read it and then I turned and walked out of the chamber with the whole of the line behind me and the whole of the Council shouting.Elias caught me in the corridor.“Wren,” he said. “The boy.”“He is Dale's son,” I said. “He is eleven years old and he has been in the pack house for four months and Arden has taken him.” I looked at the wire. “It says Arden took him at dawn and he has him in the mill and he says if the Alpha of the Circle Pack does not come to the territory by the full moon the boy is going into the river.”Elias stood in the corridor.“Then we go back,” he said.“The hearing is not finished.”“The hearing can wait. The boy cannot.”I looked at him.“There is a thing I have to do first,” I said.“What thing?”“The Council has accused me of treason,” I said. “And the Council has to rule on it before I leave this building or the whole of the line is going to be in a room