knees, staring from his s

y as her body convulsed and her sacred attendants swayed

atform, eager and anxious, as half the municipality's population st

l woman before him, and bunched hi

cult, this was

t to do this o

m beside him, a warning to con

since dawn. Ascend the throne now, approve R

, and natural disasters would begin to happe

they would start pl

n, staring the nex

most, did her court really expect him to cho

w," Vlad leaned beside him t

an invisible black tent w

ad. Raena's body is barely cold a

arfully, till he saw that only the witch could still see

y seemed to

no need to fear the elders anymore. I

mps would sit and watch you destroy the h

rchy." Lev said thr

ar where our people will be forced to kill themselves." Vlad sai

eyes at these things, but since

began, and the power in the beats of those temple

I lose Raena?" He said, and

sponded, turning his body back to th

e blinked and the tent c

fore him now, smiled and bo

t something come

at was not all. He felt

raised her face fully he recognise

ter just once. Could this b

y and knelt down

prise, and Lev reached out to touc

the

d and turned in his

he sky." The witch said, as

r fingers tips as she cros

aughter hurriedly got up from her

to her." He pointed

and bowed, "As

temple's glass ceilings broke and some

LA

osing consciousness as my

erted me to the fact

eyes I felt the body he

s I looked around fearfully, thousands of eyes from the floor below

e and my eyes went round as I crawle

l them I was not an enemy and did not me

ped me when I backed

man leaned down gently and covered my body with a heavy black

te, hurled me up and pushed me down to

sat s

n the floor natu

are

my tongue to unfreeze it,

silence f

he a

y eyes still pinned to the

no one was there, and I even

beside me, and I shivered, stiffening, wa

surprise, but hurriedly

here." Another

a spy from another clan, or

den as I touched my forehead to the floo

hat demon clan.

aks." A

" I heard a woman's vo

fway to the floor f

voice replied without hesit

world as a strong wind picked up outside the

direction the voice ha

th braided hair and full viking

ng beside him said, and I felt strong hand

orm to hear anything, were starin

eamed in

without approval to visit. How would I

ch was saying, and had no

here to f

stay a few months till I fo

g me as I was rarely able to speak in public si

cause the muscly men continued pulling me, my b

sappear from sight, and as we rounded the c

burst out of my li

L

ke the wind, but unlike be

before the filthy woman

her gaze i

asked. Who was this woman

said nothing, and a nearby la

me, he really lo

disbelief, recognising the fou

towards them and Lev snapped h

eyes found the witch's even as

her left hand and everyone i

to see the filthy woman's hand hit the floor a

witch's power did n

her." The witch said as he t

his heart bega

" He stared at the witch.

xhaustion, "My powers

ng to accept that he may be losing the p

s wolf to show his claws, but they

d and turned to

to be

d with conviction. "Whic

she began to move back, shak

ly, Alpha?" The witch moved a

rowled at her i

was no storm, no glas

ain. A wolfless

u felt your wolf?" The wit

rned slowly towards the f

eeling of helplessness he thoug

hing had incapacitated his wolf was maddening, made

uld he go from

Vlad's stepdaughter could rival her in beaut

y, thinking of the thousand ways h