I
Grazziena trembled all of a sudden. The wind, yes the wind! It whispers something, filling her mind with such a vision, a scenario where she saw herself still an infant, crying beside her mother, her dead mother.
“Sweetheart? Something wrong?” Draeko noticed the sudden change of color on Grazziena’s face. She became pale as if all her blood left her skin and he felt the shaking of her hand when he held it.
Grazziena looked at Draeko and shook her head. She does not want him to be bothered. “Nothing Sweety, I just felt the wind, so cold in my skin, that cause me to chill.”
With that, Draeko took off his jacket and put it on her shoulders.
“Thank you, Sweety,” she said gently and smiled at him.
While they were in that kind of sweet momentum, they heard a vibrant voice coming from the Pack House’s main door.
“Welcome Grazziena and Draeko to our humble land,” the man with similarity to Lumaro greeted them with an evident sign of enthusiasm.
“Grazziena, Draeko, he is Alpha Roilo, my father and the former Beta of your Father Grazziena,” Lumaro said introducing his Alpha Father.
“Alpha Roilo, it is nice to see in person,” Grazziena said with a muffled voice, and then tears slowly rolled down from her cheeks. She could see the new Alpha as her father and she could not help but long for him.
Alpha Roilo’s eyes moistened as he looked at the daughter of his beloved Alpha Gregor.
“Grazziena the supposedly, next in line Alpha of the Cold Mountain Pack. I cannot help but to remember your father and your mother upon seeing you. You resemble perfectly your beautiful mother, our beloved Luna Cressia,” Alpha Gregor said as if choking because of so much emotion that he has now. It has been years that they are waiting for the return of the supposed heir to the Alpha’s throne; not only he longed to see her but the whole Cold Mountain Pack. However, he could not let everyone knew of her arrival. It would be risky as the evil witch, Thutaara might know.
“Alpha Roilo, one of these days, I would request from you to tell more about my parents. I wanted to know them more,” Grazziena requested to which the new Alpha of their pack, nodded automatically.
“I will Grazziena, I will. Meantime, come inside and your husband, Draeko, right?” Alpha Roilo looked at Draeko smilingly and motioned for them to enter the packhouse.
They entered the big, opened the door of the packhouse and Grazziena was amazed when they entered it. It might be simple outside but the interiors show wealth and elegance. It is like a castle that she used to watch in a fairy tale movie.
II
Alpha Gregor has been well prepared for their visit. He asked the Pack House’s kitchen staff to prepare the best meal that they could ever make for his special guests.
As they entered the dining hall, automatically hunger strikes Grazziena, so with Draeko as they smelled the mouth-watering smell of different dishes. They looked at each other and smiled. Their eyes could understand each other; they both realized that it has been more than four hours that they haven’t eaten so far.
“I know, both of you will arrive hungry because of your long journey. So, before you rest in the guestroom, I made sure to prepare special dishes for you.” It was Alpha Roilo again who have spoken.
“Yes, Grazziena, Father has been so excited for your visit that all of our kitchen staff were told to help to prepare the most sumptuous meal for you and Draeko,” Lumaro said teasingly.
Alpha Roilo laughed too and eventually the whole dining hall has been filled with their hearty laughter.
At the heart of Mt. Reveree, inside a big, mysterious cave, a beautiful woman, who seemed to have never aged at all, stood up from her bed and walked towards the mouth of the cave. She closed her eyes and speak something into the air.
All of a sudden, she sniffed deeply and her forehead furrowed. “New scents… there are new scents. A werewolf and a human. Who are they?” she whispered as she opened her black round eyes and it then squinted.
At that point, Grazziena suddenly felt the cold wind again, and like coming from the depth of the soil, a voice whispered something into her ears. Grazziena’s eyes grew wide as her body trembled.
From whose voice was that?” Grazziena exclaimed to the surprise of everyone around. Fears were evident in her expression.
Draeko automatically held her hand and felt that it was trembling. “What’s wrong, Sweety?”
Even Alpha Roilo, Leslie, and Lumaro approached her, all with worries painted on their faces.
“Is there something wrong, Grazziena?” Lumaro asked while giving his father, Alpha Roilo a glance.
Grazziena shook her head, “I am not sure. It might be a mere hallucination or whatever. I heard an echoing voice when the wind blew on my face.”