Kyle's POV
I found myself alone in the woods, it was in the dead of the night, wait, maybe not completely dead of the night, it felt as if the moon had covered the sun.
I shuddered as I smelled the flames, the distinct odor of burning bodies on the air. I could hear the screams in the darkness, the howls of pain echoing. Against my will, my legs began moving towards where the voices were coming from, my steady movement soon turned into a race like one and before I knew what was happening, I found myself back home, in my mother's house.
There was smoke every making it difficult to see through the fogy space up ahead, I tried moving my legs only to notice that I was standing on dead mutilated bodies. I couldn't describe how I felt that moment, I didn't feel good or bad, it just felt weird and maybe a little scary.
I managed to get my legs off the bodies and walked into my mother's house and as soon as I got in, everything else happened in slow motion in my head.
I saw a huge wolf-like monster, his furs were pitch black, his paws were huge and soaked in blood, one can tell that he was the one that did all the killing outside the compound with the amount of blood he was covered in.
He was bending and growling over something or someone on the floor, I carefully walked over to the direction where he had his head bow down to see what it was or who it was.
No, I wasn't scared of him but I also didn't want him to notice my presence.
When I got there, my heart broke at the sight of my mother lying lifeless in his hands and it looked like her heart had been ripped off. Fear overtook my spine as I unconsciously let out a whimper, I tried to scream but my shivering lips uttered nothing. I staggered back trying to hold on to something for support.
My movement made my presence known to the monster.
“YOU DID THIS!”
He screamed at me, his eyes were blood red, I was so terrified at the sight of my mom being dead as I shook my head severely to disagree with his statement that I killed my mother.
That instant I felt like there was something in my hand, I lifted the hand to see that I was holding a heart dripping in blood. My mother's heart.
“No!” I screamed out in panic
I sprang up from my bed panting heavily. I was covered in sweat and my heart was pounding fast and hard. it was a dream, a terrible dream. Thank God it was just a dream.
I gasped for breath and tried to steady my heartbeat that felt like it was going to stop any second. I switched on the lamp on the small table close to the bed so I can see the clock on the wall. it was four-thirty in the morning, I put my hand on my head to wipe away the sweat as I hit my back against the bed.
I am not used to having nightmares, and this one freaked the air out of me. I hope my mother is doing alright, I hope she is not in any sort of trouble, I just have to look for a way to go and check up on her.
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My restless wolf woke me up the next morning, we have not had the opportunity of shifting since we got here and that was making my wolf restless.
I quickly went to take a shower and got dressed in no time. There was a knock on the door and before I could answer it, the door opened and my little maid came with a full tray of assorted breakfast.
“good morning ma'am,” she said with a beautiful smile before placing the tray carefully on the table.
“good morning, Mariam,” I said to her still a bit taken aback by the fact this will be the first time I will be served breakfast in my room.
“The queen had asked me to bring you your breakfast as she and Richard won't be around this morning, they are out and will not be returning in time for breakfast,” she said.
Somehow I felt bad for not being duly informed about where they were going to, but a bigger part of me was glad as this would give me the opportunity of getting to go see my mother.
I'm very sure if the queen is out she would take most of the guards with her. This means that I can take a walk by myself today. My wolf suddenly started leaping for joy.
“Thank you, Mariam, I will call you if I need anything else,” I said to the little girl who was waiting on me for further instructions. as soon as she left the room, I quickly took a bite from the burger and a few sips from the hot chocolate drink, after which I picked a paper bag that I intend to fold my dress into a few shifting, before walking out of the room.
I was about to climb down the stairs when I saw Mariam, my first instinct was to hide, but she had already seen me. I walked down the stairs with the hope that she doesn't bother me about where I was going.
“Mariam, please go take out the tray from my room, I'm done having breakfast” I quickly said to cut her off from whatever she was going to say.
“yes, ma, but please the queen asked that I should go with you whenever you choose to go outside the Packhouse” she quickly added as she made to follow me out.
“oh did she? how sweet, but not to worry I am not going anywhere I am just going to pick up some berries outside, you can join me once you are done clearing out the dishes,” I said to her with a reassuring smile.
She seem convinced as she takes the stairs up, while I quickly made it to the door and was out of the house in no time. I hurried my steps into the woods and as soon I felt I was out of sight I started running, till I got to where I felt I could easily take off my clothes and shift.
I took off my shoes in a hurry and was about to take off my dress when I heard a voice behind me.
“I wouldn't do that if I were you"