Of Wings And Claws

CHAPTER 5

I don't know how long I've been awake. My eyes lazily roam over the features of the room like I am seeing  it for the first time. I sigh and turn on my back to stare at the white ceiling. I feel like ripping it to shreds. To us faes,  colors held significance. Light colors like white,  yellow,  gold and the many others represented joy,  happiness,  tranquility. Light blue was for peace and green,  green meant home. We creatures of nature,  we were always surrounded by green and since I've been here there wasnt a single green color I've seen on this house.

It reminds me that I was indeed far from home, a lost fairy,  a doomed species.

My thoughts are disturbed by a light knock on the door. I mumble a low come in  and the door slowly swings in.

"Potentate,  I've brought you breakfast. I've been told to tell you to eat everything on the plate. Lord's orders" Anwar says the words like they were rehearsed again and I scrunch up my nose in distaste.

"Do you always have to ruin my appetite everytime with your last sentence?"

"Sor—"

"Wait, what did you call me" suddenly remembering. His eyes widen for a milisecond that if I wasnt looking at his face I would have missed it.

"Queen,  my Lordess I called you queen" he breaths green, raw lies.

"No I heard you Delta,  what did you call me?" I ask again getting out of bed. Anwar sees my actions and he turns at the speed of lightening and dashes out of the door and all I'm left with is an ajar mouth and widened eyes. My shocked state is cut short as the open door reveals none other than Mr blabbermouth. This morning just keeps getting better and better.

He looks at the probably empty hallway Anwar had disappered into and turns to me with the same expression I had on my face before I saw him.

"Woman,  if I thought you were mean before I sure as hell think you're dangerous now. How on earth did you just make a whole commander of the Lord's army run out your door like a hen chased by a cock!" He exclaims.

"Would you tone it down I have a terrible headache. Secondly its a rooster not a cock" I say taking my plate of food.

He chuckles and mumbles something under the lines of its the same thing unless the other word reminds you of something else. I roll my eyes at the bubbly boy infront of me.

"Thirdly what are you doing in my room?" I ask sitting comfortably on the bed. I gaze at the plate on my lap with a constricting heart. Faes were known for unity,  even the unseelie court did their wrongful doings as a united finagle,  but most importantly by the fae tradition,  after you find your beloved you are supposed to cook a meal for him and eat it together just the two of you. The male agreeing to sit and eat with you means he finds you worthy to be his partner, the person who will forever sit by his side no matter the circumstances. Even if its a male fae,  he does the same with his beloved,  cook her a meal that they will both share and enjoy.

"Are you even listening to—"

The lord alpha bringing my meals to my room like this,  meant he knew a lot about our traditions than I had expected him to. What crushes my spirit to dust is,  he knows exactly what it means. He knows exactly what he is doing to me.

He was rejecting me. He has done it more than once. He is standing over my bleeding soul with a knife and repeatedly stabbing it,  over and over and over.

"You know I might just start calling that plate Lycidas,  why are you staring at it like that?" The kid asks in a bored tone.

"Huh?"

"I just said I cooked that for you,  so hurry up and open" he says gesturing to the cover.

"Oh I hope I don't die of food poisoning" I mumble lifting the cover.

"Pff please,  if I wanted you dead I would have strangled you in your sleep"

The food smells divine, its far better that what Lycidas brought for me. The wasn't any meat..it was all kinds of vegetable dishes scooped in small portions. From mashes, roasts,  fries to boils.

"You made this?" I ask hoping he would say no. Hoping he would say—

"Yeah, do you like it?" He says with an excited smile.

"I haven't even tasted it" i say rolling my eyes.

"You're rude" he says moving to sit on the bed right next to me. I sigh dramatically looking at his dreamy eyes which were looking expectantly at me to taste the food.

"Ever heard of personal space" I grumble bringing a piece of roasted potatoes in my mouth and I suddenly moan at the taste.

"Yes! I knew my food tasted divine" he punches the air dramatically. I manage not to hide my reaction.

"You're good kid, I'd give you that" I say nodding.

"So, when are you and my brother going to mate?" He let's out with a scratch of his unkempt hair. Just like that the potatoes in my mouth goes down the wrong pipe and I break into a fit of coughs. Placing the plate down quickly I grab the glass of water next to it and gulp it down thirstily.

"Are you okay" Blabbermouth says with a worried look.
"The hell I am. What did you just say?" I ask with a serious tone.
"Who the heck is your brother?" I ask before he even has the chance to open his mouth.

"I asked when you and Lyly are going to give me nephews and nieces" he says his eyes getting dreamy again. Was he sick or something, why do his eyes do that from time to time?. 

"Why would me and your brother give you nephews and nieces. Who the heck is Lyly anyways?" I ask still very confused. 

"Lyly, Lycidas" he says looking at me with a bored expression that almost says, are you that dump.

Then it dawns on me, Blabbermouth is lord Lycidas' brother. "You are that butthole's brother" the words leaves my mouth before I even put a filter on them.

Blabbermouth chuckles and nods his head. "Well thought you figured."

Now that he said it, some of his features matched the lord alphas'. His jet black hair, sharp nose and disgustingly disturbing, alluring and mesmerising black eyes.

"Right" is all I say before finishing up my food. "You are so different from each other" I add.

Blabbermouth just shrugs and gets off the bed and taking my empty clean plate. "That's because I'm not an asshole I'm Blabbermouth." His words makes my eyes widen, did I actually speak out loud. He sees my widened eyes and he bursts out laughing. Did I say that out loud now?

"No you didn't say that out loud" my eyes widen even more. I stand up from the bed swiftly and the boy staggers back with wide eyes.

"What in the world are you? Some pathetic hybrid trying to exercise his powers on me, a lowly mind reader sent by the lord alpha  to spy on me?" I yell while stalking him. He takes some steps back with wide eyes and shakes his head.

"Jesus woman! Why are you so emotional. And to answer your questions, no, I'm none of all those things. I'm a werewolve with a gift, just like every other werewolf with royal blood." This is new. I never new royal wolves had gifts.

"So you can hear everything that's going in my brains?" I ask not liking it one bit. He shakes his head while he attempts to move around me and sit on the bed. I let him.

"Well, no, not everything. When you thoughts are too strong I can hear them. If you're just thinking about minor things like the weather or your favourite outfits I can't." He says scratching the back of his head.

"That's not good" I mumur, thinking about all the possibilities of him hearing every single thing that I'm thinking about.
"Is there a way to block you out?" I ask still not on good terms with what he'd just told me.

"Well yeah. Let's sit so I can show you" he pats the spot next to him on the bed.
Just like that I spend the rest of my evening learning how to block Blabbermouth out of mind.

I really should stop calling him that.