Supreme Impostor

7◇Coexistence

I walk without great enthusiasm while rehashing the words of Spathy again and again in my brain. She’s right, I’m just an impostor who ended up in the wrong place, at the wrong time. But why on earth do this girl’s words touch me so much? What is she to me?

"I wonder who would have become the supreme alpha if I had not been there last night."

- Spathy, answers Garnet directly.

I stop abruptly. My eyes widen as I raise my hands to my face in a gesture of pure despair. No wonder she hates me so much. I took what was rightfully hers.
God, why is this falling on me?

"Garnet, is there any way I could abdicate?"

"Not as far as I know," he replied, coming back to me to push me by the shoulders, "come on, we have to get you away from here for now."

Thus it forces me to move between the woods, and this until reaching the border that separates the human world from that of lycanthropes. The barrier is not visible in broad daylight, but the precipice is present.

"I will not jump from there by myself," I said in a categorical tone.

"You are quite capable of it. And even if you fall into the void, you will not have a single scratch."

- There is no guarantee.

Garnet opens his arms wide, like an astonished who has just heard the worst bullshit.

"You are literally the supreme alpha. A little jump is nothing.

I raise an eyebrow, arms crossed while advancing towards the edge. I carefully glance down, and the depth of the precipice forces me to swallow.

You’re a coward, suddenly the wolf comes into my head.

I start in spite of myself, having forgotten the unwanted presence of this being in my body. I think I will never get used to it.

"Garnet, that thing talking in my head, how can I get rid of it?"

I turn my head to my best friend while moving away from the dangerous ledge.

"You two are one. So you cannot do without it. If it were possible, I would have given mine away a long time ago.

He sighs in despair the next second he looks up. I guess his wolf has to lecture him right now.

"Well, Jelyan jumps now!"

- I said no.

"You may prefer to spend the whole day with the pack, because I don’t mind."

Shhh... just imagining the black look of these people drives me crazy. I can’t see myself facing them again when they imagines seeing me dead and buried.

"So give way to your wolf just this once."

I frown, turning my head sharply towards him.

"I can do that? No, yesterday you told me that he might take my body forever."

"It was just for your first transformation," he explains. "Now that you have your hand on your own mind and his, you can lend him your body as long as you want. He can never keep it forever without your permission."

I rub my neck, hesitating. Even if I wanted to, I don’t even know how to do it. No, I can’t take that chance.

"Hey, Jelyan, call me the brown guy in order to recapture my gaze, I would never lie to you about something so important."

I can’t argue with that. There’s no one else in this world I trust more than he does. A true brother. If he says that I fear nothing on such a serious subject, it is because he is telling the hard truth.