4. I heard he’s the most handsome wolf ever born!
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4. I heard he’s the most handsome wolf ever born!**
Caroline’s point of view…
Loud noise of the band was unbearable. The beating of the drums, those ear deafening tunes of the musical instruments made everything in my cabinet vibrate with its intensity.
My bed shook along with the thumping of the drums, making it next to impossible for me to sit stably.
My heart pulsed in my chest alongside the hoots and cheers breaking in the context from time to time. Today, I heard it was the coronation ceremony of the Alpha’s son. He has returned from some training institution and today itself he was entitled to get the crown and the Alpha’s throne.
And the loud noise, the drum playing was all happening in respect of his coronation. It was happening in the front grounds across the frontier of the castle but the noise was so strong and intense that it had the power to shake my cabinet with its eminence that is located in the backyard of the castle, under a huge banyan tree.
I wanted to be a part of the audience, see how he looked. From what I heard from the other she-wolves— he was described as the most handsome wolf ever born.
They claimed for him to have the most spelling eyes and mind numbing gaze that can bewitch anyone. His description was that of a Greek God, and so I fancied going there and seeing him, regrettably I can’t.
Sadly, I am restricted from leaving this cabinet, and if I were ever found roaming in the kingdom anywhere— no matter what reason it is and at any time, I am sentenced to be killed right on the spot.
The previous alpha never showed any mercy on me. He never gave me any benefit as that of any other she-wolf of my age. My twenty five years of life could be so ironic, I have never thought. And I hate to say, I feel like committing suicide someday and get red of this because it's all getting so tormenting every other day.
You want to know why I feel like that?
It is because— I am not supposed to meet anyone. I cannot eat any delicacy except partially boiled rice with water and cucumber pickle. It would be taken as a sin committed by me if I ever dare to dress up nicely like any other women on the grounds of this kingdom. Not that I have any new and nice dresses!
During the festivals like STORMPAW NIGHT (a night where the moon goddess is offered a sacrifice for having provided all the best for the wolf kind) I cannot wear a new dress or even step out and see the moon and above all, I cannot change myself into my wolf. It's sad but my wolf is banished— leaving me as nothing but a mere human being.
The noise of the pack band died and what I assumed, the voice of a strong male wolf flared in the atmosphere. My kennel-like cabinet, which used to be used as a storage house for grains, quivered with his loud growl eventually such that the old flower case on the little table beside me fell down, shattering into pieces.
“Gross!” I walked towards it to clean the mess.
I sat across the broken pieces of the vase, accumulating its chunks carefully while making sure I didn't hurt my skin at all. My ears vibrated with the loud husky and a distant voice of a male-wolf, making me look towards the door. Unfortunately, it was not clear enough. Also I cannot hear it because I am weak.
I was a weak she-wolf that could only stay alive in her human form like a normal human. I would rather say a normal human must be a thousand times stronger than me. My body has turned light weighted, eyes blurry and ossicles weak due to the improper diet resulting in me falling into the pool of malnutrition.
He was probably giving his speech after acquiring the Alpha’s position. I can very well listen to the noise of the audience agreeing to his words with phrases;
‘Yes alpha’
‘With due respect alpha’
‘We will keep that in mind alpha’
And all of a sudden silence engulfed killing the wave of noise. I could sense the same male voice speak in a warning tone that must have taken away the audience's cheerfulness.
From what the others said about him— he was one of his kind, cruel and beast who made it clear even before his arrival that he would bring about severe changes in the working of this pack after he took up the throne.
He was clear with his words that I suppose was delivered by the messenger as he must have read the message sent by him before coming to the territory that— he would turn down all the old rules that have been prevailing even before his birth into this pack. And that he would make a set of his own new rules that everyone has to abide by willingly or unwillingly.
Quickly throwing the trash of the broken case in the dustbin that was nothing more than an old bucket of paint that was used to color the massive walls of the castle three days ago. I shut my lashes as I sucked in a gulp of air until the noise of the pack band flared again.
A heart-thumping music flared in the environment while marking the beginning of the anthem of Grey Obsidian Pack. The sound grew louder. The chiming tune of violin joining along. The rhythms rippled the atmosphere with its tune as the pack sang….
Goddess bless our homeland Grey Obsidian Pack,
Goddess bless our homeland Grey Obsidian Pack,
And make our nation great and strong,
Let no fear break our bourn,
Blessing grant, oh Goddess of nations, on the lands of Grey Obsidian Pack
Where life is valued, alpha is great,
There’s no place for growing hate,
We shall no need to worry,
As we live under our Alpha’s glory.
Stand united, we of Grey Obsidian Pack, together and ever,
Let no harm ruin our peace and show thee clemency forever,
Goddess bless our Grey Obsidian Pack,
The land of the free,
Where resides the worshipers of thee,
Grey Obsidian Pack,
The throne of our savior,
The leader of leaders our almighty warrior,
Goddess bless our homeland Grey Obsidian Pack,
Goddess bless our homeland Grey Obsidian Pack.
With a loud drumming it came to an end followed by a great ripple of applause breaking the context in its glory.
I settled down on the edge of bed, thinking, "So finally the new alpha is appointed but— it makes no difference in my life. I have nothing to do with his election and I know he won’t do anything good for me either."
Tbc…
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