THE RHOXO CLAN: the wolf and the witch

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Chapter 4

Derek lived most of his life in a village far from the big cities and far from the strong arms of the dominating Rocufres, as he was only with Nocufres and little did he know about the existence of the powerful Rocufres. And their influence on the Nocufres, people without magic.

When he left his land and went after the wolf, Derek started to know more about the existence of these magical people, and started to distrust everyone, because everything started to have ulterior motives. Almost everything had an evil purpose.

"Yes! Indeed, and worse they have become our enemies and persecute us incessantly. To keep us alive, we looked for a human protector, unfortunately, we became irrational as animals, and I ended up running from a relentless pursuit of Rufus Del Tigres, a day after our meeting, I ended up in the south, and I could not get back more to you.

"It was so?"

"To complicate matters, I didn't know how to speak their language at that time, after a few years I decided that I would learn it, and I joined an intelligent group of Rhoxos who instructed me when I was in human form, so now I can speak it and my children too." Liati said proudly for being smarter and not acting like a mindless animal in human form.

"And they are our children?"

"Yes! Well, they got away from me like the others wolves, but I struggled to get them together again, demanding that we always stay together. When all is six, Raud left to look for food."

"Oh! It's because are they kids yet?" Derek questioned still not understanding, biting a nail, due to still having doubts if it could actually be his children. For the story was too extraordinary to fit into his reality.

"When they become wolves they are of adult age, but when they change back to humans they regress in size and age, they revert to being children." Liati explained again, because this part Derek could not believe.

"Whoa! Will they be like this forever?" Derek asked worried about his kids.

"No! They will become adults after another 30 human's years pass." Liati revealed the time.

"Gee! All of this?" Derek said in awe.

"Yes!"

"Our structure and timing are different from normal humans." Liati said.

"Aww, that's good, because I'll be able to watch them grow all year round when they're human.

"At least one day a month." Liati corrected, closing sadly.

"You remembered well, a day like people!" Derek said more calmly, sitting on a tree trunk.

Meanwhile, Liati took a dress from there and covered herself, as she was naked. Her children also look for clothes to protect themselves from the cold.

"But you have to keep us locked up the rest of the time, if we're not going to run away, follow different paths, because I had a lot of work to put them back together. They had all dispersed for a few years, because when they are human they are very defenseless in the form of children, and I was very worried about losing them to preconceived death." Liati told her affliction of a loving mother.

"Of course, it's very dangerous for them to hurt themselves like children, but like wolves they can hurt people. Neh?" Derek said thinking about the two stages his children were in.

"Also you are right."

"That's why I need a shelter that will guard us against evil, especially from the Del Tigres, they want our death."

""Then come with me now! Let's all live together." Derek suggested with a huge smile and stood up.

"What a joy! Meet you." Liati said and hugged and kissed him again.

"Wait, Liati. I have bad news." Derek said, closing the smile of joy, and creating the expression of sadness, because he remembered the price to pay the sorcerer Blitave "Which?"

At this very moment, the eldest son of Liati Rhoxo arrived with his game.

"Mama, look what I brought." Raud said happily, showing the large animal he had caught.

"Dear son, I have good news. Look!"

"Danger, it's a man. He's going to hurt us!"Raud said, arming himself for the attack.

"Calm down, Rad! There is no danger, he is your father." Liati said smiling.

"What!?"

Raud looked at him suspiciously, then slowly approached the tall, bearded man, the boy sniffed closely, and felt that there was something in common between the two, as he was the son most similar to Derek.

Raud had tawny-beige skin, auburn-brown hair like copper and straight shoulder-length. While the other boys,

Gerson had dark beige rosy skin, dark red hair like burgundy and curly above the shoulder;

Andros had straight apple red hair, dark beige golden skin; the girls had different tones too, like this:

Jolly had medium beige skin, long and wavy black hair,

Syren had hair black as night and medium, medium pinkish beige skin,

Xaoli had golden beige skin, contrasting with her hair lilac like grape and short.

All of Liati's children had violet eyes, but none had her dark skin tone.