How To Beat the System

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Wisteria was pushed into the large tent. From inside she saw only a few people gathered around that had stopped working and wondered why she was inside. The blonde was shoved down onto her knees and only gritted her teeth in order not to snap at them.

They spoke to each other in hushed whispers. From what Eden told her, they were still waiting for one man to arrive. That meant waiting, on her knees. Wis impatiently sighed before having to endure this for a while before her legs became much more sore and ached.

"Why does she have her hood up? Take it down."

"Let's just wait and see what will happen to her when the lord comes."

"A girl to be wandering around the woods with a Wisp is strange. Are we also hunting down that creature now?" Wisteria chuffed in anger. "Who knows what luck that Wisp shall bring? I say to add it in as a bonus." She bit her tongue again.

If she were to meet the lord, she'd have to come up with something very convincing, but no ideas came into her mind since she was genuinely panicking. What could she say to save herself? No doubt that when the man comes her hood will have to go down, she'd just have to bargain for her freedom.

And then she realized that she was actually affecting this world. Her role in this life was becoming more important. She's already affected a god, met a Wisp with value, and had a silver stag bow to her. In the future, who knows how important she'll become? With that, there'll be many more enemies for her to fend off from.

But right now isn't the time to think of that. She had only a few options to choose from, and she was beginning to lose her confidence. Wisteria may had schemes and ideas, but she never acted upon them since she was hesitant to see if they would actually worked. It did on Septimus, but this was a whole new challenge for her with a stranger of power.

"He's here." One of them bent towards her, "Don't say anything unless spoken to." She only snorted before hearing the thuds of heavy footsteps inch closer inside of the tent. And then she felt it, probably what the Wisp had felt before falling to the ground.

An aura filled with dominance. She began to quake and grew even more panicked, trying to recollect her thoughts and plans that seemed to be slipping out more like her bravery.

What was she going to do? Never had she felt this much authority over her body before.

"I heard that you captured something of importance?"

Oh god. A wave of submission washed over her body and suddenly made her shrink even further down than she thought. His voice was low and turned out to be a growl of annoyance in the end, and his steps became heavier that made all of them flinch.

Wisteria didn't have it in her to look up at the man.

The man sat in the seat filled of the finest and warmest blankets of fur, placed right in the middle with another set of guards that stood around him in a circle. The huntsmen bowed deeply before him and Wisteria was no exception, she kept biting her lip and had many thoughts coming and going away too quickly on how to handle this situation if things take a turn for the worse.

What if none of her plans work? What should she do? Not only does this man in front of her have such authority, but he might send her off to the wolves outside. He could even be a god hiding in mortal form.

Septimus' form right now was human, he preferred that the female to always see him as that. So this stranger could be like her brother, hiding his godly form in a mortal's.

What if he was a god? What if Septimus couldn't even help her? What if his strength surpasses her brother's? What then?

What could she do?