☽ Howl ☾ [ SOLBY AU ] ✔

☽ 12 ☾

The woman, Luna, smiles brightly with a humorous glint in her eye as Colby stares at her with a slightly agape mouth. How were they able to find her? Colby asked to himself.

"So," Luna drew the word out long, her gaze unwavering on Colby's. He was slowly growing more unnerved by each second her green eyes lingered on him, "How did my sister find you? You must have been very obvious for her blind eyes to see you."

"I'm not completely blind, sister," Axelle pipped up from her position sitting at the base of the fireplace, which was flickering behind her like dark figures.

Luna looked at her sister with a look, "I'm aware, sister, but that is not what I mean."

Colby glanced at the small blonde girl, "What do you mean by that?"

Luna returned her eyes to Colby and smiled softly, "My sister has a gift to be able to see the world without actually looking at it."

"So, a seer?" Aaron asked from his seat on the edge of the sofa beside Elton and Corey. He couldn't tear his eyes from the small blonde girl and, if Colby knew Aaron a bit more better, Colby would have swore that Aaron found her attractive.

Luna nodded, "To some, she is that. To our kind, she is simply able to transgress this world as anyone else. Being one of us allows her to have heightened senses, which I'm sure all of you, fine boys, are aware of."

Colby and everyone were quiet, not speaking about what had been growing in their minds.

The brunette woman sighed and rolled her eyes, "How long ago were you bit?"

"About 4 months," Elton replied to her question.

"And you have not noticed any of these heightened senses: sight, hearing, touch, healing?" Luna listed them off.

Colby lowered his eyes, finding sudden interest in the hardwood floor of the cottage and refusing to answer her question, despite having an answer on the tip of his tongue. He could still feel Luna's heated gaze on him. It was both sending his hackles up and sending his tail between his legs. Figuratively, he assured himself.

Luna sighed loudly in annoyance before speaking with her sister, "They really do need our help, sister," Colby didn't hear Axelle respond, "My website only gives a few basics about what we our. There is a lot of history around our kind and around the pack that lives in this area," Luna stood up from seat, bringing Colby's gaze back to hers, "This will require a lot of days here," she spoke mainly to Colby, "And individual interviews with each of you to figure out exactly where you are all at in your transition, understand your pack dynamics, and help you answer any questions you may not feel comfortable with asking anyone else. I hope you have the time, boys."

Colby glanced behind at Elton, who nodded at him. The Alpha turned back to Luna, standing up as well so he was on the same level as she was, "There is one more of us who couldn't come tonight."

Luna nodded, "Not an issue. I assume this means you'll tie yourselves down here for the next few days."

Colby paused for a moment before nodded, "We will."

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The car ride back to the Trap House was so quiet and it was driving Colby insane. Perhaps it was the tension, rather, Colby thought. Everyone was on edge and not just from their drive out of the Witches Forest at night. Luna's words rattled in their minds.

Colby could feel tears prickling the edges of his eyes and pain swell in his chest. Everything was continuing to fall apart. He never felt more distant from himself than in that moment.

Colby Brock wanted to cry and die and all those little things in between.

He never felt more alive nor felt more dead than in those seconds.