Laughter

Ethel let her body drop into the nearest sofa as soon as she was in the living room.

Tears filled her eyes again. The Pack members were cheering at their success but she was crying at her loss.

She could not even tell her mother yet. She did not know how to break the news to the poor woman, how to tell her that barely a month after her husband died, her daughter had also died.

They had confirmed that she snuck out of the house and they had no idea where her body was.

"Ethel" Alpha Carl whispered her name and scooped her into his arms.

"It's going to be fine" he whispered and kissed her forehead while she sobbed into his chest.

Suddenly the telephone rang but the two in the living room were in no mood to pick it up until Alpha Carl raised his hand to pay Ethel's hair and realized that the moon ring's light was flickering.

"Flickering...." He mumbled the word and Ethel's eyes widened, seeing that.

"Lucy.... She is probably not dead" the both of them shot up from their seat.

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