Filed to story: Werewolfs Heartsong by Dizzy Izzy
I look over the hood of the Jeep at Damien, he was surrounded by a smokey red nebulous like aura. We lock gazes then we move to the front of the jeep, going into each others arms. The moment we touched the wind around us picked up and swirled around us. The ground beneath our feet trembled as more memories flited through my mind. I couldn’t catch the memories, but the love for this wolf they left behind, that I could feel.
It was a good minute before it all settled down and went back to normal. Well….as normal as it could get… having just gained a few centuries of knowledge in the space of ten minutes.
“Alora! Are you all right!” came my mother’s worried voice, she was practically running in my direction.
Mom and Dad’s vehicle was the farthest ahead, because they had been leading or little caravan of sorts. My father, a worried look on his face came up behind her.
“Alora, honey do you know what just happened?” He asks me
My mother stops and pulls me from Damien’s arms, and starts to look me over trying to see if she could find any injuries. When she was satisfied there were none she pulls me into her arms. My father pats my head and puts an arm around mom’s shoulders.
“She looks fine dear, I think her mate would like her back now.” he says, a hint of amusement in his tone. He was trying to cheer his mate up.
I look over at Damien, and he’s giving me a look I could only described as, having your favorite toy taken from you. It washed away the rest of the panic that had been lingering, because I just wanted to
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I turn back and meet my mom’s gaze. “I’m fine mom, I promise.” I tell her, then I smile, trying to show her I really was okay.
She frowns, and seemed to debate a moment before letting out a reluctant “If your sure my sweet girl.”
I nod, she lets me go and I turn to go to my mate, his demeanor perks up. He opens his arms in an invitation, one I was about to take. Then his smile falls and he gets an almost sullen look on his face as I’m hugged in different directions by my siblings. Kass,
Asher, Nathen, Bryce, Daniel and Cathel, all trying to hug me at once. 2
I staggered a little, but kept myself standing, and laughed. “I promise I’m okay, I swear.” I tell them.
Damien scratched his head with one finger and gave me a wry half smile, as if to say, ‘I guess I’ll put up with this’. Darien comes up to my left, he had a frown on his face, and a worried look in his eyes, one I had seen so often when he looked at me over the years of our friendship. It made me a little sad to see that look, because I didn’t think I could cause it anymore.
So I repeated the words. “I’m fine, I promise.”
He nods, looking a little less sad, a little less worried. “Ok, can’t have anything happen to my best friend and sister in-law. You have to be their to laugh at me when I inevitably get on my mates nerves and she kicks my ass.” he gives me a smile when he said the last part.3 .
Serenity came up to him and gently elbowed his side, giving him a half smile when he looked down at her, Darien wraps an arm around her and pulls her to his side as he drops his hand from my head.
“That was scary, you promise you’re really okay?” Cathel asked in a small voice, his face buried against my rib cage.
I rub his head, and he lifts his face to meet my gaze. “I really am all right Cathel, I’m sorry it scared you. The land was just welcoming Damien and I back. It hasn’t felt us in Centuries and was just excited.” I tell him. I don’t know which of my memories that came to me contained that knowledge, but one of them did. 2
“Really?” he asks.
“Really.” I tell him. He nods, my siblings satisfied I was okay let go of me, but they stayed around me.
“We just found you, I don’t want to lose you after having just found you.” Kass says, sorrow in her tone.
Kian comes up behind her, he takes her into his arms, kissing her temple. She lays her head on his chest and he lays his cheek against the top of her head. He starts to sway back and forth, using one hand to pet the back of her head down her spine and back up again, repeating the motion, slowly, over and over again.
Damien comes up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist. “Okay, I think it’s time to finish getting up the drive to the Castle, now that we’ve made it through the lands greeting. I’m sure everyone could use something to eat or drink before we settle in for the night.” Damien says.
Everyone nods, and we all get back into the vehicles we had jumped out of, finishing the drive to the Castle.
Alora’s POV
There were four wings of the Castle, one was the private wing of the King and Queen’s. In the middle was an enormous courtyard, and to my surprise, a willow tree that was as tall as the one in the Heartsong Mansion’s courtyard. When we arrived, everyone had been exhausted, so I hadn’t had much time to admire the beauty of the castle. Since then it’s been a whirlwind of one exciting thing after another, in a flash it was now the night of my Ceremony.
Our group was in the moon lit courtyard at the moment. My dress was a black form fitting ankle length strapless silk dress, that left only a small amount of cleavage at the top visible, there were side slits all the way up, stopping at mid thigh. The dress was oriental inspired, with deep red roses climbing from one corner to the other in an s-pattern on the font and the back. 3
