Wolvesbane✔️ (Completed)

Chapter Eighteen: Erik

Hello my beautiful people! I hope your Christmas has gone well! I hope you all have had a fantastic time with your families! Make sure you guys listen to the track above with this chapter! That's enough of my babbling, on to the chapter!

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The past couple of days are filled with tension again as the Silver Falls pack came back to our castle reporting that they also have had sightings of the beasts along with other packs in the surrounding areas. And Amongst this the Prince was coming of age officially of age to take over for his father if need be the case if something ever happened to him.

It's also around the time that he and a lot of other people would find their mates. So, you could say that a lot of apprehension was in the air for that. It could even be someone from another pack, there would be a lot of claiming going on. But hopefully not a lot of fights among males, things get a tiny bit aggressive about mates.

Also we still hadn't heard anything from Winston had been gone for almost two weeks. I just hoped he hadn't gotten him into too much trouble.

Also Amelia's trial date had been set since the whole council was going to be here for the prince. It was going to be two days before the celebration. This would decide the rest of her life.

 I was working with Orion on a plan for the guard set up and rotation for the next week or two. Making sure that all of our important guests would remain safe during their stay. Not that most of them needed it, they'd been fighting and shifting long before I'd even thought about having my first shift.

"Arabella, do you think that we'll have enough weapons to supply the regular guard with?" asks Orion.

She nods. "We should, as long as they don't break any of my weapons." She looks over at me. "They are qualified to handle weapons right?"

"Ara..." I say warningly. 

She throws her hands up in defense. "I didn't mean anything of it. I just didn't want them handling weapons that they don't know how to use. Getting some reforged would be a pain in the ass and would take time. Not exactly what we can afford right now with those beasts hanging around outside." She then looks over at Amelia. "Isn't that right Amelia?"

But she doesn't answer Ara, her attention is fixed on another point in the room. She'd been distracted like this the whole time we were meeting and it made me wonder if it was the idea of her trial coming up soon that had her preoccupied. It probably did because she had no idea what her fate was to be, they could banish or kill her if they wanted.

And I'm sure the second option has crossed her mind as much as it had mine.

"Milla are you alright?" Asks Orion.

She jumps slightly, looking at all of us. "Hmm, yeah? I-I'm fine, just thinking about somethings. I'm sorry I haven't been putting my input in." She chuckles darkly. "I probably shouldn't be here hearing your plans for the guard any how, if anything goes wrong they could use that fact to blame me."

Ara goes over to her and throws her arm around her shoulder shaking her slightly. "Stop being so pessimistic, they won't do anything too drastic seeing as you've got the-" she stops mid sentence as Milla gives her a look. "The whole pack on your side, they know your skills and what you're capable of. There's no way they'd be foolish enough to cut you."

She slightly scoffs. "What you see as my strengths is exactly another reason to cut me loose. I'm a threat if they let me go free and they know that." Then she looks at me. "But Erik this a strong plan, your strategy skills are even better than I remember. The regular guard should to okay with the rest of the pack as long as they don't antagonize each other. just make sure the pack knows there are repercussions if they do decide to act out." Her eyes sparkle a little mischievously, "Even if it is this time of year..."