Aricka and Yolanda finally entered the sitting room to find the five women sitting around the room. They were all trying to ignore each other. It was an uncomfortable situation within this room. Aricka thought it was odd that they were so cold to each other after everything she had been told about the groups and had seen with the group Evan was in.
“I don’t expect you all to agree with each other. But, if you have chosen to work help me then I expect you to be at the very least civil with each other while working with me. Now, we don&rsq
As fall approached it was getting darker outside earlier as each night passed. The dream realm was always dark to some extent, but it too reflected the seasonal changes somewhat. Many would detest this, but he embraced it. Now, was the time he could move about peeking in on those still in the physical world and unaware of the evil so close to them. So, with the world getting more hostile against him, he had decided that instead of putting himself in danger by peeking at them, he now sat back in the comfort of the old cabin petting the rotting c
Everyone in the office looked stunned at the cellphone held out in Edith’s hand as if it had grown tentacles or some such craziness.Aricka’s eyes flicked from the phone to Edith’s face and back again before she said, “Hello?”A quiet sob was heard coming from the phone as everyone listened. “Freddy! Frederick, you need to pick up your line now. You hear me. You need to hear this and you won’t say a word until it’s over.”
Gregory went in search of Evan immediately and in the process sent quite a few pups home to their families. He didn’t like the idea of them roaming for the next few days while all the other factions had people within their pack lands. He made himself quite clear to them all about how they endangered their safety wandering at this time. Once he had Evan with him he quickly returned to the packhouse and his mate. Evan was a little sulky after he had been separated from his new friends and being made to come home. Gregory realized that rather quickly the issue wasn’t coming home, but the fact that it was him bringing Evan in and not his mother.&nb
All this time the Bear’s delegate had said nothing beyond a few simple greetings and listened. Though Gregory could see his old rival had an amused look on his face as he watched this play out. Clearly, he wasn’t going to take either side in this and was just as surprised as the mage delegate. Leland was waiting to hear how this would go. It blew his mind that Rolo thought it was important to make it his business how other factions handled their rogue issues. If he just shut up it would be ove
Gregory found himself almost hiding in the kitchens. He knew if he gave in to his need to follow Aricka that he wouldn’t come back down and get everyone accounted for. So there he sat drinking coffee and trying not to make the kitchen staff too uncomfortable in his presence. It wasn’t that they were afraid of him. It was just life had gotten set in its ways and they just were having problems with the changes in routine. But, he couldn’t think of a single thing he could do to get this set
The other factions had finally arrived over the next couple of hours.The merfolk had to make do with the swimming hole and the cat shifters made do with cabins at the far end of the pack lands. There had only been one incident with the cat shifters when one of the non-predator shifters requested that they ensured their litter box was nowhere near where they were staying.A swift reprimand and apology came directly after that.The non-predator shifters received cabins near the medical centre and packhouse as they would be working as support personnel within the medical centre, kitchens and war room.&n
Gregory took the stairs back down and soon was greeted with the din of so many voices and scents his first instinct was to flee. His senses were blurring everything together. He could not make out any given sound or smell. It was like this often in cities, but he wasn’t used to it in his own home. As he resisted the urge to find a quiet space away from the crowd, he had to enter the war room. There was why the chaos of scents and sound existed. Everyone was already at the meeting and seemed to be trying to communicate something to someone else. It was a zoo in more ways than one, but no one seemed about to kill anyone else. So
Gregory was not getting tired and irritable as the night wore on and the fine details were hashed out. Jobs and groups decided on. How they were going to move the people and equipment was discussed to the point he felt it was just splitting hairs. But, that was what he told the group at the beginning of the meeting. Now they were going over how the timing was going to go down to the very last second it felt like. Now they still have to hash out how they were going to get those they could save back here and to proper medical attention, also, the injured and of course the prisoners if they needed to interrogate th