NovelEndClaim463 Chapter Eighty One I ran as fast as my feet could carryaway from the castle. I could only hope that while I was gone, Julia wouldn't have a reason to check on me-because if she discovered I was missing. Then I was doomed. The city was alive as always.
I headed straight to the fortune teller's hut. Ever since my last visit, all I could think about was coming back here to ask her more questions-normal questions any girl would want to know. Questions that had nothing to do withbeing a 'chosen.' Trian believed that fortune tellers were all liars, maybe they were, maybe they weren't.
I stopped before the small, odd-looking hut with bones hanging from its door. I walked in and immediately spotted the old woman. She sat on a wooden stool directly in front of the fireplace, her eyes fixed on the fire. She muttered sforeign words before blowing a whitish powder into the flames, causing them to burn brighter.
"How can I help you, girl?" She asked, without looking at me.
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"Yes, I did." "You want answers, and I want good pay. Do you have any money?" She asked, and that's when I realized something important I had let slip my mind. I never had much use for money, so it was easy to forget that I needed it.
"No." "Well, I can't help you." "Please, I will make sure you are paid." "When? Next year? In a decade?" "Dothis favor..." "I don't give out favors. This is a business, my source of livelihood. If I gave out favors, I would be nothing but a broke, old woman." "The last twe chere, my friend paid you very handsomely. I will make sure you get your money." "You want to be read?" she asked, and I nodded.
"You will meet a long-lost friend, and you will lose him again. That's all the reading you get with no money." I gave her one last look before walking away from the hut.
Well, that didn't work out well.
I stopped at the fields, close to the lake. The very slake where Trian had taughthow to swim. Alone, the lake looked darker, scarier; I couldn't even imagine swimming in it.
I caught a flash of gold eyes and grey fur. A wolf.
Ash.
He was supposed to be in the wild. What was he doing here? 1/2 Chapter Eighty One "Ash," I called, but he zipped off, running away. I chased after him. "Ash, don't go, wait!" Ash finally cto a stop on a farmland, a good distance from the lake. I walked to him. "Why would you run off like that?" I asked, and he circled aroundbefore pouncing onand bringingdown to the ground. He licked my face, and I couldn't help but burst into laughter. I thought you were dead." I sat on the bare floor, running my fingers through his fur. had missed him so much. "You shouldn't be here. They hate wolves; they will kill you." I should take him somewhere safe, but I knew nothing about this place and... I might have just gotten myself lost.
Ash snarled.
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"You are fine..." I began but his gaze was fixed on something behind me, he snarled again. I turned, and from a distance, I could spot a man walking towards me. The man was completely naked, with deep injuries all around his body. But the closer he got, the more I realized this was no man. The creature had no eyes-only a nose and mouth. Flesh eaters.
Empress Julia had explained it to the Alpha king; she called it a creature straight out of a person's nightmares. She wasn't exaggerating.
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"Ash, run!" I screamed, but he wouldn't budge; he stood his ground, snarling at the creature. Ash lunged at it, tearing out its arm. The creature didn't scream, didn't even seem to be in pain; but it retaliated, sinking its teeth into Ash's neck, and the wolf howled in agony.
I picked up a rock and smashed it into the creature's skull, freeing Ash from its grip. Just them, feft a hand wraparound my ankle, and I was yanked to the ground by another of the nightmarish creatures. I cried out as I fell. I struggled to fight it off, but it was too strong. It all happened in a flash. The creature's head was severed, landing besidewith a sickening thud.
Standing abovewas Trian, his sword in hand.
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