EpisodeTwo
988 Words
“It's the third time this week, I hope this works”
Rieka stares in determination at the little vial that was filled with a strikingly beautiful liquid.
She corked it open and swished it around, watching as the enchantingly purple liquid hypnotically swirled around in the transparent vial.
She took a deep whiff, her green eyes dilating in excitement at the scent of wolfsbane emitting from the vial.
Wolfsbane, a dangerous drug which the rebellious humans had somehow developed to stop the werewolves.
A foolish but extremely effective invention as just a dosage of it got the weakest wolf dead In minutes and the strongest wolf in an hour.
Though it had all been destroyed, some of it could still be found in the black market and Rieka had used her memories to find this one.
In fact she had stolen it as it was a very expensive and scarce resource.
“I hope I didn't go through all this trouble just in vain” she whispers to herself.
Taking a deep gulp of the sweet liquid and closing her eyes.
Waiting for death.
Two hours later, Rieka stared hopelessly at the empty vial beside her.
Her finger twitched in annoyance that she had been fooled.
‘No…you stole a fake product’
A voice in her head laughed at her in derision.
“No, I'm sure of what I have stolen,” Rieka said with gritted teeth.
She was sure because in her past life, it was the same exact vial of wolfsbane that had killed her most trusted maid.
Thinking of the Raven haired, always cheerful young girl, a trail of tears slipped from Rieka's eyes.
“I have to die, being alive means that my fate would be repeated and a lot of people like her would be affected” Rieka gritted.
With a determined look in her eyes, Rieka stood up from the floor, tightly clutching the vial.
She sneaked into the hot, smoky kitchen, taking a little bit of water from the general water vat in the kitchen. She poured it into the vial, rinsing it carefully and then pouring it into a large wooden cup.
Rieka watched as the faint purple liquid mixed together with the water in the cup disappearing completely.
Rieka breathed in deeply before chugging down the water.
Apart from the slightly sweet taste of the water, there was nothing else.
A few moments later, the cup fell from her hand and she collapsed on the floor in a heap, losing consciousness instantly.
That day, in the Dawn household, the only daughter of the Dawn family was found sleeping heavily on the floor of the kitchen.
After being beaten repeatedly by her mother, she didn't twitch a muscle so since she was still breathing, the family had dumped her in her room.
So the girl slept for 2 days.
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ONE YEAR LATER
Rieka stood up from her little creaky bed, dread brewing in her heart.
She walked to the chipped mirror that could barely reflect her figure, staring at her features which hadn't even taken the slightest werewolf traits, her heart dropped.
It seems that her fate was irreversible.
The beginning of her horrible life in her previous life was because of her wolfless traits.
She wasn't like a regular werewolf.
On her 18th birthday, she didn't shift at all, becoming a disappointment to her family and was eventually disowned.
“There's still some more time” she consoled herself, walking back to her bed and lying on it, covering herself with the old thin quilt on it.
Today, there was no screaming from mama Riftan asking her to come down for her morning chores.
It seemed that they thought she was shifting in her room.
“Hah, I guess they would be disappointed” she sighed, closing her eyes to slumber.
…
When Rieka came down the stairs, what the mama Riftan was expecting wasn't what she saw.
Rieka wasn't in the form of a wolf, nor did she have any single wolf-like feature like the other newly turned werewolves.
“Child…” Mama Riftan stood up from the dining chair she was sitting on, a strange look on her face.
She stalked towards Rieka and held her hands, staring directly into her eyes, while running her other fat meaty hands over Rieka's hair, as if doing it would make a wolf ear magically pop out from behind the mass of hair “Don't tell me that you didn't….” she trailed off.
“I'm sorry mama, I didn't shift,” Rieka cried out.
The tears in her eyes rolled down, she wasn't crying because she didn't shift, rather she was crying because she couldn't avoid her fate.
“You vile child! You have disgraced this family!” She screamed suddenly, pushing Rieka away with a great force.
Rieka fell on the floor, her head hitting loudly on the wooden floor but the woman who was her mother didn't care, instead she predatorily walked towards Rieka, placing her large feet on her stomach.
She heaved and panted “I should have drowned you in the bathtub when you were still a baby” After saying this, she stomped her on her stomach.
Rieka let out a loud scream before it got reduced to a barely heard whimper.
“Go and pack your things and leave this house because my family is definitely not going to feed a useless liability” she spat and walked away, climbing the flight of stairs.
Once the woman was out of view, Rieka who had been previously lying on the floor in tears, opened her eyes and cleaned her tears, a determined look in her eyes.
It seems that she couldn't escape.
Then she would leave this place, after all it was this place that had led to everything that happened.
After making a decision, Rieka’s eyes shone with a newfound brilliance.
- Writer
