The Howling (Part 2)
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My three mates stand up and are wary of the long howling.
“Wolf pack, is it Gandor?” Riftan turns his gaze to me.
“No, I don’t think so, first, howling means the pack is on the hunt, and as for now, Gandor pack is not on the hunt, they’re trying to ambush their prey which is me.”
“So, it is fine for us to be here, then?” Said Rylan.
“Not really? Wolf is one of the most social beings when we are with our kin, and also, we are the most territorial than other clans.”
“We are in danger, then?”
“For now? No, it’s not, we need to be undetected from them, the howling, I predicted it was a bit afar from our south right now.”
Riftan looking at us, one by one. “Thanks the heaven we don’t need to hunt, then, let us take a guard duty every three hours of the red moon, just to anticipate something that we don’t want.”
“Agreed, I’ll take the first duty,” I said to Riftan.
“No, you just get some rest.”
“What? Why am I the only one who doesn’t have guard duty?”
“Because we need you on full alert if something is actually happening, not because we are seeing you as one of the weak links.”
“Or do you think we are going to pamper you all the time?” Chuckles Rylan.
“Oh, do shut up! Fine! I’ll go to bed now, Riftan you take the first guard duty, Rafe and Rylan, you can go to bed with me.”
“What?! Oh, that’s not fair!”
“It is all fair in love and war.” Said Rylan while he took the deepest corner of the plush mushroom.
“What?! Hey…” Riftan gave out a grunt.
Rafe pats his shoulder. “Sorry dude, just wake me up ok three hours of the red moon, okay?”
I took the middle section and we fall into sleep, while Riftan take a seat at the campfire. I saw a light, a bright light, and then a voice of a woman.
“Sabine… Sabine…” Said the woman.
“Who are you? Why are you calling me? Where am I?”
“Sabine? You can hear me?”
“Alright, what an odd question, but, yes, I heard you.”
“Oh, thanks the heaven… you.”
The voice went muffled and then disappear all over.
“Sabine! Sabine! Wake up!”
I heard Rylan's voice and made me woke up immediately. I jump from my sleep and look at Rylan.
“What? Did something happen?”
“Err… No, I just wanted to wake you up, it’s already the morning of the red sun.”
I was in shambles and had just woken up from my sleep, my mouth went open and I said. “Oh.”
My three mates looked at me, and Riftan squinted at me.
“What happened to you? You look… confused.”
I let out a sigh and looked at the red sun from the hole in the cave. “I don’t know, I have a weird dream, last night.”
“Weird dream? What kind of weird dream?” Aksed Rylan.
Rafe gasped and was in a hurry to my side. “Are you… having a wet dream?!”
“Wet dream? No, I am not dreaming about myself swimming.”
“Nooo… wet dream means… you know what, it doesn’t matter. so what kind of wet… I mean weird dream that you had?”
Rylan and Riftan look at Rafe with curiosity.
“Remind me to ask someone from the human realm what is wet dream means, on the other story. Yes, what kind of weird dream?” Said Riftan.
“Someone called me.”
“Someone called you? Who?”
“I don’t know! An elven woman, but I don’t see her face only her voice.” I jump out from the plush mushroom and go to wash my face with a wet towel that Riftan handed to me, “She called me, and even asked did I hear her voice. I don’t know, this is odd and feels… weird.”
“So, you heard a woman's voice in your dream, that is not weird… at all.”
“It is, for me, because… because… Because it’s like I’ve recognized her voice and I knew the woman.”
Rylan goes in front of me, handed me my breakfast, and almost makes me lose my breakfast by shouting. “Wait, maybe it was Shakira?!”
“Ouch… Rylan, you almost make me go deaf.”
“So, do you think it was Shakira?”
“I don’t know like I have told all of you, I don’t know, alright.”
“Rylan, let her go, don’t make her more confused than she’s already are.” Said Riftan.
Rylan stares at him, I can feel the tense atmosphere between them is coming back. But then, Rafe comes to the rescue.
“Oh, shush! Just face it, we prefer for Sabine to have some erotic dream about us, right?” Said Rafe.
Rylan and Riftan snorted and then laughed, together. I look into Rafe and he gave me a wink and smile. Shakira was right, he know how to ease the tension between my other mates.
We ate our breakfast and pack our belongings, it was time to continue our journey. The red sun shines brightly, while we walk to the next area of another warlord. Riftan’s in charge of the location for the side camp of the next warlord area, while I synchronized it with the tomb locator.
Rylan and Rafe become the defender and searching the proper are to rest. The weather is friendly and thankfully the pack is missing when the red sun appears. Only the red sun could become much colder. The red sun and the red moon is the hotter weather than the other color of the sun and the moon.
“For hell! It’s so hot today, should we take a rest, somewhere?” I said to all of them.
“You’re right, Rafe and I located a small cave nearby, there’s also an underground spring, so, it’s perfect for us.” Said Rylan.
“Perfect! I really need my bath.”
When we arrived at the cave, I wasn’t disappointed, at all. The small cave is actually much larger than the one before, though without the plush mushroom, but we could gather some moss for us to use as our bed.
After sitting up in the cave, I felt that it was so wrong to use this cave just for the day resting, but we need to reach the new warlord area as soon as possible. After I put the moss together to make the bedding, I look around and see there’s only Rylan and Rafe around.
“Where’s Riftan?”
“Outside, he wanna check something.” Said Rafe.
Riftan is finally back after ten minutes of the red sun, on the outside. His face, however, is a bit concerned and he peeks at the outside once in a while.
“Riftan, what happened?”
Riftan let out a sigh. “Something bad is happening.”
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