ELDER XHANG'S VISIT

It was already towards evening before Elder Xhang decided to pay him the visit. Xavier stood at the front balcony of the pack house admiring the beauty of the setting sun. It looked orange from the vantage position where he stood and for a moment, he remembered the day that Elder Xhang had warned him about – the day everything went wrong in his father’s regime, the day of the blood moon. It was that day that the moon turned red and all werewolves lost their powers. Staring at the orange sun made him remember it. It was not a day he was looking forward to and although the Elders had already told him that it was expected very soon, he prayed that it would not be in his reign.

He peered down and caught sight of Diana walking along the streets. She was holding a book in her hand and reading as she walked and because she was not concentrating on where she was heading to, she bumped into someone walking on the road and her book fell to the floor. She would have fallen too if not for the wa