I grunted in pain at the impact with the floor, the weight of the deadly beast keeping me down.
I knew this was it, the beast would end me. Then the weight was lifted of me and I turned around only to see it stared me straight in the eyes.
It was cl...
Following the guards trough the corridors I soon noticed it was empty of people besides the servants and guards.
Everyone was probably in their rooms or in the gardens, maybe they were taking a walk at the castle wall or just talking between each other.
That's probably why I was allowed to take a walk with the wolves now, at this time it was empty of influencive people and no one to complain about my wolves as they didn't see them.
We where near our destination, just one turn more and then trough some big doors that would lead outside and then we would make our way to the forest surrounding the castle.
Footsteps were heard behind us as someone hurried after "Lowell!" a guard shrieked and I turned around shocked.
The name- "What is it?" the royal guard asked the regular guard that finally got to us.
I didn't listen to what the guard had to say as I really took the only Royal Guard in the room in.
He was tall and muscular but the age seemed to have caught him as he had some wrinkles and gray hairs in the ruffle of dark browns.
He had intelligent gray eyes that only a long and eventful life experience gave. His face was rounded and he had a round nose under his small and intelligent eyes.
Was he related to captain Lowell? They had the same name but they didn't look like each other. Ruby was more sharp yet smooth but this man was more round.
They didn't have the same eye color nor skin. The only resemblance was the dark brown hair but even that was different as Ruby had more variation. She had dark brown hair but some strands of it could be lighter brown or dark black this man had plain dark brown hair.
The man looked to be at the age of my father, could he possibly be Ruby's father? No maybe an uncle or other relative but he couldn't be her father, could he?
They didn't share looks and this man seemed to be more calm an peaceful than the captain that loved to play around with people.
She were helpful though, could she have other hidden traits that she had inherited from this man?
Suddenly the man disappeared out of my vision and I blinked rapidly before I realized he had begun to walk again.
I quickly followed him and looked down at the wild in my arms. The unnamed wolf looked confused as it laid on its back in my arms. He looked up at me, dazed from the changing surroundings and probably confused.
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The cub tripped over it's feet and fell onto the same grass before it hurried up and clumsily ran after its parents again.
Kaden and Sheila rushed around their baby and played with it as it tried to follow bit continued to trip as it still hadn't trained up the ability to walk and run right.
However my eyes followed the wolf my thoughts didn't. I stared at the royal guard, was he Ruby's father? Was he even related to her, I had never heard anything like that but then again.
What did I know about the captain of the royal guard, Ruby Lowell? Nothing, I didn't knew anything about her more than she had showed at the trainings. She never talked about herself and why would she do that?
Eventually my curiosity got the better of me and I turned to the royal guard that leaned against a tree as he converted with a regular guard.
He noticed my gaze and turned to me with curious eyes as he understood I wanted to ask him something.
He excused himself to the guard and walked over to me. He sat down next to me with a sigh and I waited patiently and silently for him to settle down.
After a while of shuffling he turned to me "Now what is it that you have on mind?" he asked me. A whole lot and you would probably think I'm a maniac if you ever heard it, I thought to myself.
Instead of naming my thoughts to I asked what had been bugging me for a while now "You're Lowell? Like the captain? Are you related?" I asked him right upside down and he laughed.
"Ah, that's what you wanted to know?" he said and laughed again. I kept quiet and waited for his answer as I didn't think that answered my question.
"Well, the captain's my daughter. I take it you don't know to much about her but who does?" he said and I thought more of that.
He probably knew her as he was her father but did anyone else know her? Did she have any friends? The guards seemed to hold tight, especially the royal guards but did she have any friends outside that?
Then a painful thought made its way into my mind, did she have someone that waited to claim her hand? Maybe she was married, after all she had had a ring on her finger the first days I had been here bit I had noticed the hadn't wearer it for some time.
Did that mean her engagement was broken if she had indeed been married, why?
Strangely i felt oddly jealous by the thought of another man in her life, stranger was the thought that I may have a chance with her if their engagement was broken.
I didn't even had a chance before why would I have a chance if she was single? What am I even thinking right now?
Suddenly I felt very exhausted, this whole Ruby situation was hard.
