Moonless

Chapter 38

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AN; Wow, I got more than 100 reads in the last 24 hours. I am in awe, so I decided to give you an extra chapter this week. Let me tell you I have certainly been bitten by the writer bug this past couple of days! I can't seem to keep my fingers away from my keyboard. Anyways, enjoy!

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At first, I was falling as one should fall from a fourth-story window. Quickly, with the wind roaring furiously past me, while gravity yanked me towards the ground. Then something strange happened. The wind wrapped around me and my body slowed and stopped and I was left bobbing in the air about two stories below the window.

Alpha Luka, who still stood in the window, watched me with his hateful yellow eyes and let out a low growl. His ears went back against his head and backed away from the window slowly, before disappearing back into the attic. In the meantime, the sound of raspy, labored breathing began to fill my ears, and the smell of damp earth assaulted my nose. Thin strips of gray, somewhat translucent-looking fabric began to swirl around my body and wrapped themselves loosely around my arms and legs.

I began to drift away from the window before slowly rising into the sky and towards the forest. I wanted to look back and see what had me, but it seemed I could not rotate my body in the air or turn my head around enough to see what was behind me, so I had to relent myself to the unknown.

Whatever it was felt old and very much part of the land, and very much something out of my current understanding. And even though I couldn't see it, it had to be horrifying to scare the Alpha and cause him to run away like a scared puppy back into his mansion. Despite all this, I felt like I wasn't in any danger, and despite not knowing where it was taking me, I was just glad it was away from the Alpha's mansion. Actually, I felt rather peaceful while I and my new friend began to descend gracefully into the snowy forest below. But with this new sense of peace, came the searing pain coming from the bite on my arm and scratches that I had gotten flying through the window.

Luckily, I had learned a new trick early that night. I shut my eyes and pulled the heat from the air into my wound. It was almost done healing, by the time my feet touch the snowy ground and whatever had me, let me go. I turned around to finally meet my rescuer and was met with the face of a skull with cloudy white eyes, floating within a tangle of that same gray, translucent fabric. And at that moment, I blacked out.

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I awoke to the car engine and someone singing "Hound Dog" very off-key. My head was pounding and I felt like I was going to be ill.

"You ain't nothing but a hound dog. Cryin' all the time."

I opened my eyes and realized, that I was in Richard's truck. But as I looked to my left I realized that it wasn't Richard driving. Liam's green eyes met mine the second I glanced in his direction. He was wearing the most weather-appropriate outfit I had seen him in to date. He was dressed in a gray fleece zip with dark jeans and heavy brown work boots.

Above us, the sky was glowing pink while the sun peaked just above the horizon. Whatever road we were on, it was carving itself through a collection of fairly impressive look mountains.

"Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit. And you ain't no friend of mine!" he sang and grinned at me."Morning! You passed out from magic exhaustion and probably a little bit of shock of seeing a forest spirit for the first time. They aren't very pretty. Here, drink this," With one hand on the wheel he reached over and handed me a glass bottle, with a glimmering purple liquid in it, from the cup holder."