ALPHA DEVON IS BACKAvery's POVI open my eyes, yawn and stretch. Then I get up. It's dawn already. I move closer to the dungeon window to breathe in the early morning fresh air.It's been three days now. I've been in this den for good three days. My whole body aches all over and I would be kidding myself if I don't have a bath as soon as I get out of here. That is if I' will get out of here alive. Silly me!I stink so badly. I will forever be indebted to Lord Elias for always sending meals to me every time since I was locked here. If not for him, I might have died of hunger.To think that I always took him as a jerk still punches my guts. I'm not to blame though, he always behaved like one. Always pissing me off a d pursuing me round the house. It took all my strength not to curse him one day.When I think about the stress it must take him to send me food, I wipe away all he has done. This kind act of his is enough to make me forget those ones. If I ever make it out if here, I must
THE PLANReginald's POV"Since the letter clearly states that we shouldn't do anything, I guess we have to wait then. Maybe they will not hurt her if we don't make a move" King Levi says to Beatrice's answer.She turns to look at me where my thoughts are going crazy. The thought of leaving my daughter with those beasts for one more second peeves me to the core. The thought that she must have been waiting for me to come save her while I'm here just sitting unable to do nothing makes me almost puke.I am helpless in this. How did I get my daughter into this mess? How will i bring her out? "I will advise no one makes a move for the time being. I will write a letter back to them to seek a truce. That would solve all this in a more efficient way. The men aren't ready for battle and your daughter's life is at stake if we gamble on this" King Levi completes as if he can read meaning to my thoughts.If Beatrice wasn't standing before me, I would have taken my leave and went to Blessingstoke
WAHIKA SAVES MENicholas's POVI look around me well to take in my surroundings. Can I see a way out of this place? It looks like a puzzle with no plausible way out. When I realize that this is a dead end, I alight from my horse and roam around to see if I can find my way out of this mess I'm stuck in. How could I have been so stupid to pass a path I didn't know for my first time? This is what I get for doing such.It sucks to just be in a position without any progress. After a few minutes, nothing positive comes up."Shit Nicholas! Why do you always put yourself in trouble? See what you've caused. How will you solve this now?" I hiss. Arion senses my irritated mood and neighs as if to say "You must find us a way to get out of this muck you led us into" I look back and smile reassuringly at him. That should calm his nerves for a while. I rove eyes at the sights to see if I can identify anything that will lead me home. Hoots wouldn't be able to find me here because this is not the
WHERE IS THAT BETRAYER!?Alpha Devon's POVIt's been a few weeks away from home. Sometimes I go on hunting expedition with my some of the chiefs of Blessingstoke and my man.We do this annually to get away from life at Blessingstoke and to charge ourselves. I should have come home next week because that was the agreement with my family.However, one of my men in the castle sent a letter to me. Because we were deep on the forest, it took a long time for it to get to me."My Lord, something urgent has happened. Sir Nicholas apprehended a betrayer yesterday and she is in the dungeon right now. I think she is from Arbedour park. Please hurry back to give her a sentence before she escapes"When I read the what he wrote I was shocked to my bone. A betrayer in the castle? How did she get to close to us all without us knowing a thing about her? Who interviewed her? It was dated two days ago so I gathered my men and informed them of an unexpected thing that had come up at home. It took me a l
WHAT IS FATHER UP TO?Nicholas's POVI hurt down the path leading to Wahika's cave. So many emotions whirling through my mind as I headed towards the witch's cave "Hey Wahika, you said you were going to lead Hoots back home" I'm about to remind her when I remember that she said no disturbance in clear words. It was a bad step on my part to have forgotten a very important detail which shouldn't skip my mind.I shut up my mouth and follow her in silence. If father is truly back like she said, I'm sure someone informed him of what's going on in the palace. But who? Who is feeding father all these information?Father does not just leave the hunting expedition just like that. It's either about Avery or something more crucial than that or it's even the two.We get to Wahika's cave and she goes in to pick her shawl. There is no reason for me to enter since we are going to the palace together. Moreover, there is a particular smell of incense that welcomes me at the entrance.It chokes me and
MEMORIESWahika's POVI was preparing to go to the palace because I had received a signal that Alpha Devon was back. It is my duty to go greet him in the palace whenever he comes home. However, after communing with the gods, i was alerted in my spirit that someone needed my help. I initially wanted to lure the persom back to wherever the person got lost.The gods ordered me to go check on the person myself and they also gave me an instruction. I never knew that Nicholas had captured a prisoner. It was all over the village but i didn't really rake cognizance of it. I also didn't know that it was a woman. I had thought that the betrayer was a man. I had also even expected us to burn the person a stake after two days because that was the rule.Since I didn't live in the village, i couldn't know that she wss a woman. If i lived there I would have known immediately, since the villagers always have one gossip or the order to trade with their mouths.Years of living on the mountain has mad
SHE HAD ESCAPED!Wahika's POVLong before, the people of Blessingstoke accepted me, long before i learnt how to use my talent so well, i wasn't always like this.Infact i was much more extroverted. I had friends and people around me in Albany. However something happened. Something unexpected had happened. Each time i think back to it, it must have been the gods who directed me here for the sole purpose of fulfilling my duties and healing.Sometimes, i thought about Albany. I reminisced on the events that happened to me. What if it hadn't happened? Would i be here in Blessingstoke? I have been here for over fifteen years now. Each spring, i mark the date on my wall. The day i got disgraced by a little mistake of trust. Humans could be callous. The selfish nature of humans is a destructive one. Natasha, my childhood friend whom i loved abd trusted like ny true sister betrayed me. Maybe if i had been more calculating like her or if I didn't really trust her that much, all these wouldn
HE'S NOT HEREHoots POVI turn on the right path. We do not make use of the left path because of the dangers ahead. With my speed I should meet him on the way.I think back to when i first got here. Some of us here at Blessingstoke have one story or the other to tell. Some were saved, somr were brought here, some came here on their own.It wasn't easy for the people in the palace to trust me at first. The people of Blessingstoke had been attacked in time past so they were always weary of new people among them.The guards in the castle were all acting strange. After a month, they accepted me as someone who had come to stay.It didn't take them long because cold Nicholas was behaving normal now. He smiled at everyone one and did well. However these past few years hsve been lonely for me.Having been on the run almost all my life,i had no place to call home. This place has become my home,my shelter. I was getting older with each passing year.I had given up on ever getting married or lik