The Sovereign

SIX | Nonhumans | SIX

It takes years to tame a wild beast, but it only takes a second to be a wild beast.

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Alyra Kassia Ambrose

N O N H U M A N S

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Hours felt like a passing blur of a repeated routine where I'd enter the class, I sit at the back, and I let the world fly by. I have grown accustomed to the staring, the whispering, and the pointing. For as long as they stayed away, which they thankfully did, I was okay. I couldn't care less about the baseless rumours that flew behind my back.

Having such powerful senses was a heavy annoyance, but it had its perks. To hear the hottest gossip whispered at the opposite end of school is one thing, but to hear the private whispers was another. I've had my doubts about the people of this town from the moment I arrived. The way they smelled so different, the way they acted so different.

I just never thought that they weren't human, but if there's something like me in this world. I figured there would be others too. I just didn't imagine there would be this many.

If I was human myself, finding out that other creatures exists would have been a huge bombshell. I should be worried, maybe even afraid, but I felt the opposite. I was fucking happy.

There are others like me. Others who would understand, who can help me understand. I was happy to know that I wasn't alone anymore.

But there's a problem.

While I took in every word spoken within the school. I learned that although they know I'm not human. They don't know what I am either. They describe me as scentless, which I figured why no one can tell what I am. That took my hopes away of knowing what I have become.

Kallie was right when she said that they were afraid of me, but it wasn't just because of my eyes.

"Did you feel that?"

"I can't stop it. It's like my heart's gonna jump out of me."

"My wolf won't stop howling in my head."

"Mine too, she's scared."

"She won't stop whimpering."

I learned that the whole looking down, head bowing, and neck showing wasn't because they avoided me. It was a gesture of submission. Something that seems to stun the entire school after making everyone submit by doing nothing but walk in front of them.

Although I don't exactly know what it means if they submit to someone. I made it a mission to learn more. Binge watching Vampire Diaries and childhood memories of Twilight gave me an idea that those who spoke of wolves in their head were werewolves.

With everything that happened and everything I've learned these past few days. I wouldn't be surprised if demons came next.

A lot of things were going around my head. I didn't want to join the crowd and had waited until everyone was gone before I made my way to the cafeteria. I could hear the boisterous noise inside, making my ears ring from the assault. I didn't enter the hall, nor did anyone notice my presence at the door. There were too much noise and smell for me to enter without wringing in pain, so I settled with peaking through the glass.

They were not separated by status quo, or tabled according to their popularity like a typical school. Instead they were grouped with those I believe were the same kind. Majority of the school were werewolves, which I found all of them at the west side of the cafeteria. That left the fourty more people that I still didn't know.