Adrianna wears stones all her life. Each stone has different uses and different otherworldly effects. Formed and molded into shape, the stones were put together to make accessories called amulets. Amulets protect her and keep her grounded. For the...
The 'season' starts tomorrow. It's a week-long event where all unmated werewolves that are in the right age come together and search for their mates. It's the time when you can't shift but your senses are heightened just like you've shifted.
You think that would be a disaster cause wolves are just hormonal and everything can go wrong but really, it's just simple. It's like a very huge party were you talk, then dance, then party with just a pretty good side to it. You could bump into your mate and voila. The Elders think that hits two birds with one stone.
Sounds fun right? Don't wait for me to tell you that I was just sarcastic.
I wasn't.
I wanna go.
So tomorrow, I'm going. The only problem is, I'm considered not in the right age yet.
My kingdom has many rules. Rules are necessary of course; they keep the packs under our kingdom organized. As organized as a werewolf pack can be. Well wolves follow commands but other than that, they are free to do anything they want. Wolves needed the wild and the freedom. But they also needed the feel of belonging to a pack.
One of the rules implemented in my kingdom is to attend the party when your age is no less than twenty years. But that's unfair! Other kingdoms allow wolves to attend when they're eighteen. I'm eighteen and if I happen to belong in another kingdom, I could come without anyone nagging.
I just really wanted to go.
My mate could be out there. Waiting for me but never finding me. 'Cause I'm stuck here because of some rule. He can be years older than me and when he turned eighteen, he started going to the party, and all the time ending up with not finding me. If I waited longer ... I can't bear to think how he'll manage that. He'll end up hopeless and think of never attending.
I'll keep him from feeling that. I just have to see him and I'll tell him to wait for me. When I really am in the right age, we'll see each other again.
I drifted off to sleep hoping that everything will turn out well ...
I can't wait to meet my mate.
With thoughts of tomorrow, I started drifting off to sleep.
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The next day, I went out. Wearing an ordinary traditional white dress inside an over-sized coat, I cautiously slipped from the guards and rode on an old carriage with other unmated she-wolves who are also going. I know some of them but they do not recognize me. Thanks to my concealing amulet. The amulet covers my real scent. And the masks that we're all required to wear, hides my face from them. The only time that we can remove the mask is when you show it to your mate.
When we arrived, I was surprised to see that it was as messy and as loud as any other party. There is no massive building but a very wide clearing. And when I mean very wide, It accommodates all packs of the four kingdoms and maybe even more.
People are clumped into small groups talking, drinking, dancing and kissing. All females wear simple to very extravagant white dresses and the males wear black sleeves and pants. Some are dressed to impress and show rank. Some just take the simple route and be simple. I stand for a while. The group I came here with scattered along the crowd.
Okay ... So what now? Would I stick to the plan? I can still go back.
I started doubting going here.
But I never was one to back-out. So I scurried along and went to a corner.
So, this is it. Deep breaths Adrianna. Deep breaths.
I closed my eyes and stared at the crowd. I slowly unclasped the amulet around my wrist.
It was almost night but I see clearly. The moment my scent was there for the crowd to detect, I saw him. It was like time moved slowly. There were many people but It was only him I see.
The only thing I see behind his mask are his eyes. Stormy and gray, slowly shifting into black. My heart caught up in my chest. Instinctively, I knew. It's him.
Just as he was about to come near me, someone attached my amulet back to my wrist. I tensed, ready to attack the person interfering. But just as I was gonna do something, I recognized her voice.
"What are you doing here ?! If somebody finds out-"
"Myra, I'm fine, I-" turning my head back to the direction of my mate, I tried searching for him but he was nowhere to be seen.
"We are going back, your highness. The king- You know your father. He won't be very happy about this. No matter what, we must go back." She also looks around, desperately hoping no one recognizes me yet.
"Myra-" she looks at me angrily but at the same time pleadingly. "fine. We're heading back." I told her. I searched one last time for him as I entered my kingdom's private carriage with Myra at my side, shielding me as she possibly can from everyone's eyes.
No sign of him. He's just ... gone.
The ride back was covered with uncomfortable silence until Myra decided to stop it.
With a loud exasperated sigh, "Yann- your highness, you know you still can't go. You'll see your mate when the right time comes. Two years from now, you can. You'll just have to wait. No more doing this kind of things. Rules are there for a reason and you know that. " she ended with a suppressed need to shout. She can really. Myra is a high witch that protects me. She's a protector as much as a friend. But she cannot understand. I need my mate.
I sighed. I really can't blame her, it's a wolf thing.
I have no choice now huh ... From my previous stunt, I would be having twenty-four hour guarding for the rest of the Season. I sigh internally. Fidgeting with the mask now at my hands. I was so close to meeting him. So, so close.
Two years?
That's too long ...
But I tried and I failed. I have no choice now but to wait.
Nothing would go wrong right? Two years is just fleeting.
Only seven hundred and thirty days...
Tears started forming around my eyes as my wolf practically shoves the idea of counting the hours and the seconds. Seventeen thousand, five hundred and...
I gripped my amulet harder to ground me. The longingness I feel would be blocked as long as I wear this for two more years. I blinked backed the tears and tried to smile.
Fate always lead us towards our other half. I practically repeated in my head.
If time would be the only hindrance between me and my mate then I will wait.
The carriage starts to head towards the East. I glimpsed through an opening of the window curtain. The view outside is illuminated by the full moon and I see many happy faces as they reach out towards their mates.
"Everything would be fine, Adrianna. You'll be with him in the end. I know this. Now's just not the right time..." Myra tried to comfort me, holding my hand inside both of hers.
Removing my gaze from the window, I smiled back at my friend to make her see that somehow I understand.
And I did that without even seeing a pair of stormy gray eyes by the edge of the trees, avidly searching the crowd for his mate.
