The journey to the fog forest took a lot more hours than Rose thought. But she was glad to have the chance to look around the place, enjoying the view of the outside world which was rare for her to see.By the time she had realized it, she had hung her sleepy head on the firm shoulder beside her. Dominic noticed how she was sleepy and smiled. Brushing the small strand of her hair aside, he then settle his head gently on top of hers.A light shake woke Rose from her sleep. She was startled to see they had arrived on the forest and found Dominic sleeping with his hands crossed.For a long moment, Rose took her time to admire his face. It was hard to think there would be someone this handsome in the world. Where his skin was smooth and his features were dominant.“Good?” “Perfect,” she responded, only to be startled by Dominic’s voice and her own quick response. She found his black eyes opened and his lips curling in a grin. Feeing embarrassed, she narrowed her eyes, “You’ve been awake
Rose could hear voices and footsteps near her. The discussion of people who seemed to be heated by emotions. One of them shouted for the other to start a brawl. Oddly enough she could hear growl instead of punches being thrown near her.It was as if beasts were fighting and not humans.Her green eyes quickly snapped wide as she recalled someone had pulled her into the fog forest without her wish. She stared brightly at the two men who was ready to tear each other but their hands hung on the air as they were stunned by her awakening.Others around her could be heard gasping seeing how she had pushed herself from the ground. Carefully, Rose studied her surrounding, finding herself in the middle of the forest. Firewoods were lighted right in front of her while there were houses made by woods grouped out around her. Then there were villagers… many of them, surrounding her in a circle but none daring to get close to her except the two men who was furious at each other.“Darn it! She wok
Dominic turned his face at the lonely forest only to find Rose missing from his eyes. He studied his surrounding first, wondering where she had went, “Rose?” He asked, wondering if she had walked away as she had find a clue.It was somewhat Rose’s bad behavior to disappear and turn tunnel vision whenever she found a clue, but knowing Rose, she would have tug his sleeve a little, coming to his calling when he called for her name.Yet now she’s gone, unable to be found. His panic spread slowly but potently as his head wrapped around her disappearance. He quickly walked away, trying to find Rose while calling for her name only to stop when his feet had stepped at something. Looking down, he noticed he had stepped on a shoes.Bending down, Dominic took the feminine shoes on his hand. One glimpse was enough for him to know it belonged to Rose.His knuckles cracked at the same time Cain had walked up toward him. He shivered as he felt a deep rage oozing from Dominic. His eyes had turned b
The way to enter the fog forest was obscure. No one knows how to enter but Dominic didn’t have the luxury to find a way to enter the forest in a civilized manner. His blood was boiling, with anger to both the person who had taken Rose and to himself who didn’t notice her disappearance despite her standing right beside him. His Rose had disappeared and he could tell she had gone inside the fog forest. It was the only way for him to find her yet he couldn’t as the fog forest kept on pushing him back to the spot he had started.It was useless to wait, he didn’t know what might be inside the forest and how Rose’s condition was. If she was harmed, if her skin was even the slightest wounded, he knew he couldn’t keep his sanity anymore. Dominic had left his men to Cain before standing at the edge of the forest. He wracked his brain under the few seconds he has.Humans… the people who entered the fog forest were mostly humans, it’s why they had been thrown out of the forest. As the witness
His question was met with the same look that Rose received when she asked about the werewolves curse. Andrius who noticed that they were under a misunderstanding immediately spoke up, “You got things mixed up, us being a werewolf is not a curse. If it is, it would mean everyone here is doomed for life.”“We come from a kingdom where everyone is a werewolf,” explained Anna who walked beside her brother Chris, hiding as though she feared Dominic. “Humans are instead a very strange and odd creature for us. If you think that way, if a human was to suddenly appear in our kingdom, they would think themselves as cursed as well.”Dominic frowned and Rose could fee his hand tightening around her. Like how she was before, he was having a hard time to understand it all. It was difficult for him to believe he wasn’t cursed as since he was young he had been doomed by other’s words.“Let’s talk this out inside my house,” said the elderly lady who was walking with a stick toward them.Rose nodded he
Rose stepped outside alongside Dominic who hadn’t said a word since he stepped out of the house. She watched how his silence means he was thinking deeply of what had happened and his complex expression made her worried. She touched his hand noticing how he wrapped his fingers around and tightening them.“You’re thinking whether they had lied to you?” Rose started her question. Even during this time, she was grateful Dominic hadn’t brush her away or ask for a space to be alone.She was glad to be able to stand beside him, especially in times where he needed her.“No,” he answered after a while. “I can smell my own kind here. I can tell they are are similar like me. Their words when they said I belong to the kingdom over the sea might also be true.”Rose remembered how back in her village the old lady had spoken about a land far away that have werewolves. She had brushed it aside, not knowing it was true.And the last and crucial question was, “Will you go there?”Dominic looked at her
Dominic managed to catch one of the mercenary who was sent to kill him. Pulling the human by the collar, his enemy looked at him in terror. He begged, “Please! I promise I would keep my mouth shout of what had happened tonight! And I promise I will— I will—”Dominic simply looked at his eyes, offering his question, “Do you have a family or a lover waiting for you back at home?”The mercenary didn’t think before nodding his head in energy, fearing Dominic will kill him before he could reply.“I do! I do! I have a child and a wife!”Dominic looked at the man for a couple of second and a sigh left his well shaped lips.“Even when you’re in front of days you still lie, don’t you?”Watching how inhuman the change of Dominic’s eye color from black to golden caused the man to scream, leaving his last word unheard as his scream become his last dying words.Cain rushed into the forest side where it was burning. Oddly why he had instructed the men to look around the forest for any traces of Ros
Rose watched as more humans being brought into the forest, they were all however mostly lifeless by the time they end up inside the forest.The elderly woman sighed seeing this, “Death has never been easy.”And Rose looked at her, finding the woman gently smiling.“I guess you doubt my words. Most werewolves sees human as creature inferior to them but none of them have difficult feelings against them either. We just see humans as pitiful, whether how easy they die due to old age or how weak they are. But trust that deaths are never easy for us, whether its humans or for werewolves.”Rose saw how one mercenary was holding to his chest but the werewolf did nothing and watch them. She felt terrible seeing a fellow human had been wounded and left to die but seeing the amount of blood shedding from them, she could only watch from afar.The man caught her gaze on him and crawled. Anna quickly stepped in between her and the man as if to protect her from the man’s harmful intention. But from