*Third Person's Pnt. of View*
As soon as the Luna noticed Joey exited the throne room, he bowed her way and simply said, "I think she's ready to listen."
"Thank you Joseph." Adelina replied with a genuine smile, then she tapped his cheek and instructed, "now get some rest, and don't worry, everything is going to be alright."
"Thank you Luna." Joseph greeted then he headed back to the clinic where his mother received him with opened arms.
Adelina looked towards the double doors, and released a deep breath, then she opened the door and entered the room. When she did so, she found Anna-Marie sitting at the base of the stairs once again. The deep frown lines on Anna's brow told Adelina that she was deep in thought, and Aden smiled. She needed Anna's mind to be open for this to work.
When Anna-Marie heard the approaching steps, she looked up and noticed her mom, and instantly groaned. The visits just didn't stop, Anna thought.
"If you're here to scold me too mom, I've already heard it from Jordan, Aisha, and Joey. Whatever you're going to say, I'm sure I already heard it." Anna-Marie decided to save her mom the trouble. Anna knew her mom was disappointed, and the one thing she did not want to hear was her mother's scolding.
Adelina ignored Anna's comment and only invited, "come on, let's go for a run."
Anna's head snapped up in surprise for she expected something else to come from her mom's mouth.
"Wait you're not mad at me?" Anna-Marie asked before she could stop herself.
"Oh I am." Adelina nodded, but I think it's best if we discuss this after a run." Adelina shrugged, not revealing anything to Anna. Anna was calm right now, if she knew her mother's plan, she may not come willingly.
"You're not planning on murdering me in the woods are you?" Anna asked, though she asked it in a joking manner.
"Not at all. Come on, I have a bag ready at the clinic, we'll just grab that then we'll head to the cliff." Adelina reassured, and with a hesitant nod on Anna's part, the mom and daughter duo departed.
Anna-Marie tried to ignore the sideway glances she received from bystanders as she followed her mom to the clinic, then the woods.
As soon as they entered the forest, Adelina transformed into Aden, he beautiful white wolf, and Anna-Marie transformed into Maria, a white wolf with blackened tips at the furs. The wolves started off in a casual stroll and trot, then before they realized it, it became a race.
Aden and Maria chased each other as they yapped and howled softly. Chuckling as they ducked low branches, and yipped when they jumped over dead logs. At times Maria and Aden rolled around in the dead leaves, but even as they did this, Aden hated the dark cloud of doubt hanging at the back of her mind.
*Adelina's Pnt. Of view*
"Why are you worried?" I heard Selene's voice in my mind, and I notice Aden jumping over a large fallen branch before I replied, "it's my fault that we're here in the first place. I shouldn't have been so lenient with Anna-Marie. I shouldn't have given her so much freedom to the point where she managed to lie to us. Had I been more strict, or careful at least, maybe all of this would've been avoided."
"Adelina, how old is Anna-Marie?" Selene asked me, and I could already tell she disapproved of my reasoning. Maria nipped my tail as Aden zoomed past her, and our wolves continued to race towards the cliff.
"She's 21." I replied though I knew that Selene knew that, meanwhile at the same time Aden and Maria crashed through the last line of trees and entered the cliff.
"Exactly, she is an adult, and as much as you'd love to be on top of everything she does, you have to loosen the reins. There are things Anna has to learn for herself. No matter how many time you teach her certain things, unless she experiences them for herself she will never truly understand the meaning behind your lessons. Stricter parents raise good liars, and what child doesn't lie? I'm not saying that things couldn't have been better handled, but what's done is done. The mistake has been made, and now it's time for redemption, growth, maturity, and moving on. Stop blaming yourself and instead focus on making sure your daughter learned something, and is ready to to grow and move on from this." Selene lectured, and I agreed silently.
"One more thing Adelina," Selene spoke up.
"Yes?" I replied, "I don't know what will happen when you're at the lake. But even though the lake is meant to heal Anna, nothing will change unless Anna truly wants it. She has to heal from within or else all this will have been for nothing. You have to help her find herself. That's the only way this can work. And if she finds herself without the lake that would be even better. But go to the calm place anyway. This world is too chaotic. You need to be away from all the noise so that Anna-Marie can actually hear herself think. You once found out what it meant to be Luna, and now it's Anna's turn. Guide her there, but the step to finding out the true meaning of being Luna, she has to take herself." Selene advised, and I nodded.
"I got it." I confirmed, feeling up to the task and ready for what I would face at the lake.
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