Chapter 10 Forgotten Revelation

• I and Aariv stood outside my house which was raised slightly higher above the ground. From where I stood, I could see almost all of the Abode, the name we gave to this place where the pack lived. It was a large pack and if the stories were to be believed, then it once was ten times the size of what it was today and it controlled far more territory than it did today. Whenever I thought back on that history, I felt a certain level of shame. How was it that a pack so great and so mighty that even its pups strike fear in the hearts of great werewolves had become this humble? Hunting food in the woods by themselves like commoners, moving in stealth when around other pack’s territory, and staying clear of what lay on the other side of the river – humans. We were more than this; far more than this. As a child, ever since I had learned that I would be Alpha one day, I had always planned that eventually I would bring my father’s pack to the map, to where it once was. The golden ages I had called it, the years of abundance that had been in existence before my father and his father and his father before him and perhaps, maybe, their fathers as well.
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• I remember very precisely that it was a Monday when I found out. I was in my room when I overheard my father arguing with someone. I had become very curious as my nature was as a child, and I had gone to eavesdrop. It was my father and Aariv. Aariv was younger then, but no doubt still an old man. He had white hairs with tiny traces of black that you could only see if you stood right above his head with the sun giving you all its light and your eyesight being as that of an eagle. My father on the other hand was a large man, portly was an understatement for what he was. I doubted heavily there was ever a trace of athleticism in him. I had never seen him hunt nor had I ever seen him fight. He was always inside, talking loudly, drinking, and having several extramarital affairs I wondered if that was where I got the urge that I continually used Minnie to satisfy. It was a miracle that Mother stayed with him for as long as she did until her death at the hands of a heart attack. God knows what caused it. It just had to be that bastard man.