Chapter 39


    Chapter 39 – Celeste


    Celeste P.O.V.


    Kara….Kara are you there? I sobbed as I walked through a mist. It had an orange glow to it and I


    couldn’t seem to find my way out of


    the haze. I had been walking for a while and it was like the mist never ended. Was I dead? Is that why


    Kara wasn’t with me anymore.


    Suddenly, I feel something soft pressing against my legs. I look down to see Kara purring at my feet.


    Kara were are we? I asked her. I must be dead if I can see her in front of me.


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    We’re in theher. We need to heal Celeste. You need to heal –


    She spoke into my mind.


    But I’m not injured. I argued. I didn’t understand what was happening.


    Not physically. You have gone through things that would break a normal wolf. But we are not normal.


    We are special. We need to heal to meet what’sing head on. The actions of that she-wolf broke


    you. Broke your faith in the bond. It made you doubt that you


    were worth being mated to Markus. You need to learn details that are important for the battle ahead


    and restore your faith in


    yourself.


    What’sing?. I said as I stroked her soft fur. She was such a beautiful wolf.


    I will let our mother tell you. We must make it to her first. You will see things that will hurt you and things


    that will not make sense


    now. I’ll be with you the entire way. You don’t have to go through anything alone ever again. Are you


    ready?


    Ready for what? I don’t understand. – I was still scared and confused at what was happening.


    You will. Follow me. – She said as she rubbed herself against me.


    We start walking through the mist. We finally push past the mist and I gasp. We are at the edge of a


    cliff. Behind us is nothing but that strange orange mist, but in front of us there’s a giant ck chasm.


    The only thing I can see is a path leading upwards. The path is covered in orange marigold petals and


    seemingly floating. There are several tforms along the way. It leads up to the stars, where I can see


    the


    small silhouette of a woman.


    We take this journey together. No matter what you see, I am here with you –


    Kara said. My hand shook as I stroked her fur and


    nodded.


    Together – I responded as we took our first step onto the path.


    We walked slowly to the first tform. There was another swirling mist on the tform. I looked down


    at Kara, who nodded her


    head at me. – Be strong Celeste.


    I walked into the mists, hanging onto Kara’s fur like my life depended on it.


    The mist enclosed us within it, transforming into a scene.


    I immediately knew where I was and started shaking. I was right on the tform. Alpha Geoff was


    standing on one side, my father on


    the other. They began fighting. The whole fight was as if at fast forward speed. It was clear my father


    was strong, easily overpowering


    Alpha Geoff and I wondered how he’d lost. Suddenly, the entire fight stopped and moved as if in slow


    motion. I saw the needleing


    out of the wrist of Alpha Geoff’s coat. No, not a needle, a syringe. I saw how my father blocked a


    punch, and Alpha Geoff took the contact


    to stab my father with the syringe, a purple liquid pulsating into my father’s arm. Even if I hadn’t seen it


    myself, I knew what happened


    next. My father fell to his knees and Alpha Geoff slit his throat and then rips the head from my father’s


    body. I trembled with anger and


    grief. I saw my mother rush forward and fall on his corpse. I didn’t want to look at what happened next.


    I had dreamt it many times. It was


    my own personal nightmare. I buried my head in Kara’s fur and cried.


    This is where your path began. This is the moment we thought defined our life, but you hadn’t seen it


    all. You didn’t know the truth. I’m sorry Celeste, for making you relive this, but now you know the truth.


    Let it fuel you.


    He killed him. He cheated. He didn’t just challenge my father for my mother, he came ready to murder


    him. –


    I cried.


    Yes, your father was strong. Stronger still with your mother at his side. Alpha Geoff did not win the


    challenge. He betrayed the natural


    order of nature and thews of werewolf kind.


    Kara growled. Then a little gentler, she said


    – When you are ready, we must keep


    I weep a little longer for all those lost that night. Finally, I stand and nod at Kara. She brushes herself


    against my side and leads me


    out of the mist and back onto the path upwards.


    Why do I need to know that my father was murdered? Why does that matter now. It can’t be changed. –


    Tasked Kara


    It matters, because his murderer has not received his punishment. So many of our people were


    murdered that night.


    Am I supposed to avenge my father, our people – I was confused. I did not see why moon goddess


    Selene would want to put me on a


    path of revenge.


    Kara shook her head. –


    This will matter when future eventse to pass. I cannot say more, but you will know why this was


    important to know soon. Everything you will see here has a purpose. Even if we don’t always


    understand it right away.


    I trust you and our goddess.- I say as we arrive at the next tform. I grab hold of her fur as she leads


    me through the mist. This time,


    I don’t recognize where we are. This isn’t something I lived. I recognize the river as the one that runs


    through Sky Moon and Crescent


    Moon, but this part isn’t part of either territory. I am floating on top of the river. I am not sure what’s


    going on until I see it. I see him.


    Lucian Pierce, my father’s gamma and the man who saved me. He was floating down the river face up.


    His face was bruised and tinted blue. He flowed down the river until he hit a rock. His body twisted and


    hit the bank of the river, a foot stuck on a branch, stopping him


    from pushing further down.


    Time seemed to speed up again, noted by the faster current and unnatural movement of his body in the


    river. The night was giving way to day when time slowed down to normal again. I heard a howl,


    followed by the pattering of paws and then saw three wolvese to where Lucian wasying. Two of


    them transformed and pulled him out. They fastened him to the third wolf and all three of them ran


    off again. I felt myself being pulled forward. I stopped in a hospital room. Lucian was hooked up to


    several machines. His face was no


    longer bruised, so it must have been a different day. There was a man talking to one of the doctors.


    “I don’t know if he’ll ever wake up Alpha. There’s nothing physically wrong with his body, but his brain


    was severely bruised when we


    found him. I don’t know the extent of his brain damage. He’s stable but in aa.”


    “Has anyone figured out who he is yet?”


    “Beta Derek has been looking but hasn’t found anything. There was nothing on him to identify him.”


    “Well, let’s give him a week. If he’s not awake by then, we’ll move him to the Packhouse. We can have


    a nur-”


    “Dad, Mom sent me to volunteer at the children’s ward. She wanted to know if you were going to be


    home for dinner. She said text


    her, because she’s heading to the city on some errands.” I squinted at the boy. He looked to be about


    12 or 13 here….something about


    him looked familiar.


    “Thanks Rhett, did you bring anything for the little ones?” My eyes widened. Alpha Rhett. Lucian has


    been at Alpha Rhett’s Pack this


    whole time.


    “Yeah, mom and I made lemon squares” he grinned.


    The mists swallowed the scene around me, I felt Kara push her snout into my leg, guiding me out of the


    tform.


    Why did he never look for me? – I asked her – He said he woulde back for me.


    He is still in aa. He’s been stuck in darkness for almost 12 years. He needs you to help guide him


    out of that darkness so he can


    return to our mother and be reborn. – Kara mourned along with me – Come, we must keep going. The


    longer we are here, the longer our mate is without us. I can sense their distress.