Renegade-N.H-

Prophecy

Prophecy

"I remember the day she came into town, a storm followed her. She was covered, in tassels and jewels. She reminded me of a pirate." Fray says, smiling at us like she was enjoying this story.

"She requested a sitting with the families and we granted her that much. Sitting around a flame she spoke about several nasty dreams she was subjected to over the past thirteen years." Nan spoke slowly.

"A young woman was to fall in love with a foreign man, a man that no one saw coming. A young man that would sweep her off her feet, and not a single one of us could stop them from falling in love. A human man. Never in our legends, our years on earth has a wolf fallen in love with a human."

I don't say a word, my lips are pressed together tightly. Louis hasn't back away from me, holding his position next to the couch. Part of me is glad, he's the only person I truly know here but... I can see him, I can see him from so long ago and it's not the person I'm staring at now.

"In time she would give birth to a boy, a normal human boy. A boy who would live his life to the fullest, be a wild, fun bright child. They would live in the confinements of the town, until..." Nan stops and I look back up to her. "She became pregnant again. This child was a girl."

Nan's voice catches a hitch and Louis clears his throat.

"The girl is special, the old woman said to the elders. She carries an extra gene that gives her the power. But beware she says," Louis looks to his hands. "This power is not a friend to the wolves. The child will be born with a cure running through her veins."

"I'm the girl," I whisper, looking to Louis. His bright eyes look back at me, his silence is deafening and a chill runs through my bones.

"The girl has the ability to wipe out an entire race of wolves," Nan says, looking at me seriously now. "but she has a choice just like the rest."

"Oh now I have a choice?" I laugh under my breath.

"The choice was clear, I remember the way the old gypsy looked at me when she told me. Something in her voice is something you would never forget. The girl will have a choice like the rest, she can remain pure and the cure will never touch the lips of a wolf. No one will ever die."

"Or," I beg for the answer.

"Or, she allows herself to become tainted. Welcomes the bite of a true wolf, then the cure will be activated. Then she will kill more wolves than ever imaginable."

I run my hand over the bite that scars my leg with pain and look to Louis fighting the tears in my eyes. He clenches his jaw tightly and looks at the bite as well.

"The woman was killed the next morning by a wolf, we never knew how, or when but it happened. Someone didn't like the prophecy." Fray says to me quickly trying to smooth over my emotions.

"Some of the families didn't like the idea of the prophecy. They didn't like the uncertainty of a baby girl being born. We couldn't have been sure at the time which girl was the mother of the child. But it became clear very quickly." Nan explains. "Your father rode into town with a fury, a purpose. He was running from his past, with a bike between his legs and the idea that we has never going home."