Our Luna

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I can't see anything. I move my hands around, seeing if I can touch anything to give me a slight sense of where I might be - nothing. I smell.. an intoxicating scent of.. something. 

"Are you scared, mate?"

"Mate?" I mutter, confused. 

"Yes, mate. You are my mate, aren't you?"

"I.. I don't know.." what a mate is??

"Well, you're mine now, princess."

I bolt awake to the sound of the horn. Another day. It's reassignment day today. I will either get reassigned to another task or evaluated to be promoted on my task. Everyone makes their way to the square as I ponder what happened in my dream. 

They start from the highest number seeing as those are younger workers. I'll have to stand here for ages.

"102632. You have been reassigned for escort training." My night shift counterpart. I've thought she had the face they'd like, figures. I watch as some guards take her from the crowd towards the escort factories. I'll never see her again then. 

It's sad that these girls are recruited to be sex slaves but at least they find a life that's more than this. The fuck am I thinking?? Ugh, I'd do anything to escape this life.

"079531. You are promoted to night nursery manager."

Night? Well that's a change, I've always been a night person and nights are shorter in our territory. 

I sleep for the day, waiting for my shift. I make my way to the kitchens for my pre-work meal. Feeding times are different for night shifters. I make my way to the nurseries. I don't know anyone by name or even by face yet. I pray to the moon that something exciting happens tonight as I open the door to my own office. 

Maybe this is the something more? At least I'm manager now, I get somehow better food and more hours to myself. 

I shut the door content with the little space that's now my own. I haven't savored it for long before a hand covers my mouth and I'm alert  then frightened. This can't be the end of my existence.

"I won't hurt you, please don't scream. I just want my baby girl." I nod, relaxing, he sounded genuine. He lets me go and I turn around to face a frantic looking man. 

"I just wanted to take my daughter, please. She's all I have left." I hear him but my mouth is frozen as he looks different. He must be from one of the light packs!  

"H-h-how did.." I stutter, at a loss of words. This cannot be happening on my first day, am I fantasizing?

"I know some ways into and out this territory, it's quite the story. Please, will you help me?"

"I, I, I can't.. They'll punish me for any missing children."

"Please. I almost got her but there are plenty of guards here, I need your help."

"I really can't, my hands are tied." You can go with him! Escape! You'll do anything for anything better than here, remember?? His face falls slightly, disappointed yet still determined. 

"No wait! Only if you take me with you! That way, I won't get punished!" He seems to think about this and when he was about to agree, I had another idea.

"Please! Let's take a few other babies too, we can't take them all but at least we can save some from their future here!" He hesitates.

"I can't, I don't have enough to get that many out.."

"Please, I can help you! Maybe we can plan something and do it tomorrow night. Please, you're from a light pack, you must care about the others too, right?" 

"Okay, tomorrow. But my daughter is my priority. If the plan doesn't go then I'll take only her." 

"Okay. Here again, tomorrow night, but about three hours later." 

"I'll come back for her." 

|Light packs' members look happy and normal compared to dark packs'. They have distinct looks and vibes. Ascher would look out of place in either packs as she was not born nor raised in both therefore she didn't grow looking like either.  Most of the people in Ascher's pack look dull and lifeless, if anything. Ascher too but her desire for change keeps a fire in her alive.