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Chapter 8

I wake as if it's an emergency, as if sleeping had become a dangerous thing. My heart beats fast and there is a buzzing in my brain and together they are as panic with jump-leads. Only now my brain is as a flat battery, the exertions of the night being a marathon of erratic problem-solving. And so this day will pass as if I am hung over, not from drink, but from the nightmares that demand solutions. But I shall wake up….I still cannot shed from my mind what had happened last night.

Give me a moment to shed the sleep from my brain, to allow the visions of the night to give way to the day, to move from that which I create on a whim to things more fixed and real. In a few minutes I will be able to greet the sunlight, to see the colours as bright as the backlit images of cinema screens; I will adjust. For now let it come with the subtleness of a gentle dawn and let me doze underwing. I'll be there soon, I'll wake up, you'll see.

Luke was snuggling beside me and I smelled his fur. He smelled like home and comfort and I nuzzled the huge black wolf and then shot upright on my soft bed. This was the Second day of the Summit. I could not afford to sleep any longer. I needed to work out and then eat and then talk to Drima. But before that first, I needed to talk to my sisters.

I must have missed out on telling you but there was a very vital part which I had been suffering the plight of since I was a toddler. All the wolves who were born in the royal family and were the heiresses were plagued by this so I guess I had not thought about this. Moreover Drima had been always by my side so as to help me out with all the electronic gadgets which is the reason that I had almost forgotten that without her I cannot even make a simple phone call.

The female heiresses who were imbued with some amount, even the tiniest amount of Old Alpha Magic could never use any of the electronic gadgets. They did not bode well at all with the electronic stuff. If we touched one by mistake then the machine would fry up and sizzle and would be nothing more than burnt puddle of plastic and metal. So it was imperative that we all had our helpers or counsellor in my case with the electronics at the ready.

‘You seem tensed and I smell something else as well,” said Luke as he yawned out loud.

“And what is that which you are smelling?” I asked him that as I pulled back the covers and went down from the bed proceeding towards the en-suite bathroom.

“You smell like sex,” said Luke as if he was stating a matter of fact and I almost tripped on the carpet at his words.

Upon waking, Luke burrowed himself into the warm, soft sheets. He rubbed the remainders of sleep from his eyes and gazed out at the horizon; its vivid light extended across a rosy sky. He supposed this was something the majority of people would consider beautiful, but he found it strange, hard even, to find something so meaningful in something so every-day. It's not like the sun wouldn't rise, it had, after all, been reliably happening since the beginning of time. So what was so special about it?

What was special was somehow I had dreamed about sex with an odd looking but handsome male and everything in that dream felt so real that I wondered if I smelled my skin if I would smell like him. I needed to take a bath as soon as possible. Wolves were creatures with heightened senses and that meant, that if Luke could smell me then everyone else could and I did not want any kind of drama on the Second day of the Summit.

“Luke, stop having dirty thoughts and please for heaven’s sake go and get Drima. I am going to have a quick shower and bring her fast. We need to go over all the possibilities of the contest today,” I said as I rushed towards the shower. I could feel that Luke was chuckling but I could not tell this to him and I could not literally share this with anyone at all. This was something I needed to figure out on my own because there was nothing which seemed real or possible about this. Even though it did seem only like a dream it could not be all that was. But right now my primary focus was to be in charge and control of the situation.

I finished my shower in record breaking time and then I wore the robe and came out to find the entire crew waiting for me.

“I have already connected the call and they both are waiting to talk to you,” said Drima as she turned the screen towards me. And just as I saw the two angelic faces on the screen I felt my heart would melt and anything that I had on my mind was forgotten. They had dark hair like me but their eyes were green like my mother’s. Unlike mine.

“Sister….we miss you so much,” said Wilmena, we called her Winnie for easier purposes.

“Sis, why did not you wake us up when you were gone? I had to hear from Lane that the Queen Alpha was no more and you have gone to the Summit. I also wanted to be there. You know this right, that we are always the safest with you? That is what our mother used to say?” said Selena, better known as Lanie. She was the mature and aggressive amongst the both of them.

“I know that you think that this is essential for you to stay with me not because you are safe but because you think that without you I am lost and that is true. But babies, you both are my heart, you know that right? I asked with a smile and they both nodded vigorously. I doted on them like they were my own children because maybe they were so much younger to me.

“So now I need you to recall what I told you about our cousin, Rubina…you remember that huge snake she has which is a mix cross of some kind between a python and a cobra so it has venom and it can gulp you in as well?” I asked again and they both nodded more vigorously. Winnie added,” His name is Salazar, I remember because I read that in the Harry Potter story that Drima reads out to us.”

“Good memory baby. Now she is here with that snake. And I don’t want anything to happen to any of you when I am not close because when she realizes that what she is dealing with and who is she dealing with and that she is going to lose she is going to come after what I value most in my life. That is you both,” I said and I realized after speaking these words that these were not the things that you usually spoke to children. And that too not kids of six years.

“We understand, Sis. You are under a lot of pressure but we both know that you will win,” said Lanie and I smiled. She was always the optimistic one.

“I wish Luke was here to play with Cody and Chip. They are getting bored you know?” asked Winnie and I smiled.

“If you are both good then I am going to ask Luke to go and visit you once today’s contests are all done. I mean, it is the best I can do baby, because I also need Luke here with me you know?” I said and then Lanie said something which blew my mind.

“The contest is not going to be held in the morning. It is going to be held tonight,” said Lanie and I was surprised at her statement.

“Where from did you learn that?” I asked and Drima was looking at me with a shocked expression as well.

“No one. It is juts that sometime I get these feelings and I have a sense that they all come true. So I am asking you to make sure you are ready for everything at night. And Luke might not be even close to you for help. So prepare accordingly,” she said and I could not believe that this was my little sister that I was talking to.

“I shall keep that in mind baby. Thank you for the help. I am sure that I am going to make both of you proud and we are going to see the both of you soon,” I said as they gave me kisses and hugs and I could almost cry and then the call was disconnected.

“Is she developing her own powers apart from the Alpha magic?” I asked immediately as soon as the call was disconnected.

“Well I have never heard before that it has happened but I am not going to be surprised if Lanie displays some weird skills. She made her mother crave odd things and your mother told that it was Lanie who was asking for her to have those and not Winnie. She might have drunk a few healing potions also in the time of her pregnancy because the twins were taking up too much of space and your mother could not cope up with the pains and the spotting. We don’t know that the potions did not have some extra effect on Lanie. Maybe Winnie has something as well and we will come to know that later on!” said Drima and I nodded my head. I could agree with that. That was something plausible and I could work with.

The team already had their breakfast and I was the only one left. I immediately piled up my plate with sandwiches, cheese platter and fruits and then I also poured a glass of orange juice for myself.

“Do we have things which are going to work at night? I mean, clothes wise?” I asked with my mouth filled with apples and Drima nodded. I knew that I was eating too much but I had no idea that if I was going to be able to even have food for the rest of the day so it was better to eat a king’s meal before going out to slay your enemies.

“You might want to know that Rubina was trying to get one of the guards incapacitate you so that you could not contest anymore with some kind of weird infliction. And she had sex with him as well in order to get him do this but Mason saw this happening and told me,” said Deke and I looked at him and he took this as a gesture to go ahead. “I caught hold of him as I saw that he was getting poison ivy in the bedroom and then he has been taken care of. But I just want to tell you that if she is not above playing dirty then maybe we also should do something so that she would understand that you are not the kind to mess with.”

“I think I have to take care of that myself,” I said as I put another sandwich in my mouth and gave Luke a hot dog which he gobbled up immediately.

“You need to be careful, Synthia,” said Drima as there was a knock on the door and the doors opened with a messenger from the Council with a message for me on a silver tray.

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