Silver Blood

Chapter 8

"Snow, so you can read right?" Matt asked Snow, she was walking with Matt while carrying a map on her hand, it looks hand-drawn and there were some names on the houses of the maps, "yes, I learned how to read, I used to belong from a high-class family," she said.

"Cool, but we werewolf learn because we need to act like normal people," Matt said, Matt brushed his hair using his hand,

"No, you don't look any like normal people; but that doesn't matter, let's knock on this house door, we can ask for clues!"

Snow reached her hand out, and knocked on the door, they waited for a while and saw an old lady she had hair nearly grey with streaks of brown on it and was carrying a cane in one hand, and she smiled.

"Jeremy is that you?" the old lady said, "n-no I am not Jeremy," Matt said nervously, but the old lady walked toward Snow instead and started pinching her cheeks, "Jeremy, look at how you have grown, oh look you have white hair, my, come in, come in, my grandson."

Snow turned her face that was hurt by the old lady at Matt and glared at him, almost like asking him to do something, "uhh grandma, that isn't Jeremy, that is Snow..."

"Are you silly? Snow is only during winter it is not wintering yet, come in!" she pulled Snow inside the house, Matt followed Snow, the grandma made Snow sat on a chair, and she poured soup into a bowl, and she placed it right in front of Snow.

The soup didn't look anything close to edible, Snow thought. Snow also realized that the grandma looked like she has very poor eyesight and also poor hearing which had doubled the trouble, Snow looked around the house, which looked quite new, so she wondered who was the one taking care of the house.

"Uhh... Grandma, can I ask who cleaned your house?" Snow said, and Matt was standing next to Snow, and the grandma gave Matt a bowl too. Although Matt flinched a bit, he drank the entire bowl in one gulp but then he licked his lips and burped it. It had annoyed Snow, and she felt really annoyed to the point she stepped on his foot, he tried holding back his scream to not embarrass himself further.

"Well, sometimes I clean it, and sometimes your sister Annie, come around and clean it, you are always busy Jeremy, can't you visit your grandma a bit more often?"

Matt looked at Snow and guessed what Snow was doing. She was trying to know who was this Jeremy that this old lady spoke about, so she asked a few questions to get to know a bit detail about him.

"Well, I guess I have to go to work again, sorry grandma..."

"Going to mine again, your hair turned white, be careful, I heard that the mine is falling down."

Snow heard the word the mine is falling down, and she knew where she needed to go, she grabbed Matt by his collar and ran toward the door. Matt tried to escape from her grip but didn't work since his button was stuck.

When she stopped running, he started catching a breath, "Snow, what are you doing? We need to get clues about Oceleon not to save a guy inside a cave!"

"Shh... how near is this cave from the farm, can you open the map?" Snow asked, he opened the map that was inside his pocket, the map showed that the farm is quite near the cave, around a few meters from the east side.

"Well, surprisingly, quite near, but what does have to do with anything?"

"Please tell me you are not an idiot, because if the cave is falling down here, it has to do with something underground making it unstable."

"Ohh... I don't understand."

"Urgh, come on."

Snow walked inside the cave, and she listened carefully, there was sound of water dripping down, and she heard a faint voice, "let me do this, I can hear that voice better than you," Matt said, Matt's hand started to become furry, and his face too, his ears started changing and he became a wolf, instead of his werewolf form.