Spirit Wolf - My Home (Book Two)

2. Consequences

REI'S POV:

"Did it work?" I asked Calen when he came back from the prison area. I asked him to confirm if Ismail is really without the wolf. "I don't know. He doesn't want to talk with anybody. Is there any chance of how you can check it?" Calen asked me back and I was thinking about a solution. "I guess MRI could show the damage made by the drug but it will definitely not confirm if he is without the wolf," I replied to him still thinking about what we could do.

"Maybe Emily could have more answers. She studied general medicine but I know she was interested in brain surgeries and maybe she will have more answers." Calen suggested and I did like the idea.

I left Calen in the room and was heading out of the room.

"You are going to leave me just like this?" He called after me when I turned around the corner and was heading straight to the hospital. "What do you want?" I said trying to make my voice sound more teasingly. I heard a low growl from the room. Honestly, the moment I turned around the corner I was waiting for him there leaning on the wall because I already knew that he would not let me leave without kissing me or at least taking one deep breath of my scent.

Just as I was about to turn and go back into the room his big figure cornered me on the wall with both hands on each side of my head.

"You were leaving without any kiss or hug princess?" He asked me with his deep husky voice. I could feel the air buzzing around from the tension and lust but I tried to ignore it as much as possible. Since our first night, I could not get enough of him, and simply his scent and warm present make my body crave for him.

"Sure not my love. Don't you see I was waiting here for you?" I replied to him as sweetly as I could giving him a lovely smile. I locked my hands around his neck climbing onto him so I could reach his nose and kiss it. I swear if someone would see us like this they would think I am a freaking monkey climbing onto a tree.

'You are a wolf, you can't be a monkey.' Maat commented I guess she didn't get the joke.

'It was a joke sweetheart.' I told her. 'By the way, since you are already here talking to me, would you like to have a run with the Thoth? Soon he will see the New Moon so we will not be seen that much in the Night. Snow is also not that deep.' I asked her and I swear I could see her tail wagging like a good dog. 'You know I can hear your thoughts' She replied to me and stopped wagging her tail at the same moment.

'You can't be nice offering me to go to a run and call me a dog at the same moment.' She was kind of insulated. I knew she hated any comments about being a dog or behaving like one but what could I do? Dogs came originally from a breed of wolves a long time ago so I did not see a big difference but it seemed for the wolves' dignity and their pride it was a big deal to be compared to them.

'Okay, okay I am sorry. Would you like to go for a run at your wolfie highness?' I asked her one more time teasingly and jokingly and her wagging tail was back so I took it as yes.

"Done talking to Maat?" Calen asked me the same moment the link between me and Maat was closed. "Mhmm." I nodded. "I would like to let today Maat and Thoth run freely if you don't mind," I told him and I could see that this time he was gone into his mind area talking to the wolf. I never realized the change in the expression until I started seeing the wolves around me. The moment we are gone in the mind zone talking to wolves the sparks in the eyes the living creatures have are gone and the whole expression is lifeless. It looks strange.

I guess this is when humans call themselves to be out of their minds it's just that we are sharing our minds with another soul so we are technically never alone to get into the same state as they are.

"Yeah, he loved it. He was wagging his tail like a puppy." Calen said. "Pssst. Don't say that out loud I had a serious conversation with the Maat about that. Seems like you can't offer them a run and call them dogs at the same time." I told him pretending to be shocked by the words he said before I started to laugh.

"Ah, Maat is giving you this kind of talk too? And I thought that this was just the Alpha blood in my wolf but it seems they are all the same." Calen said but this time I have him questioning look saying 'are you f*cking joking me or why.' I was Alpha blood too so for sure Maat as well. He was looking at me not understanding what he said or did and I elbowed him hanging around his neck with my one hand. He was anyway already supporting me to stay up there.

"What?" He asked me, confused. I jumped down still without kissing him and went back to my previous plan to go see Emily and ask her about the brain.

"What did I do?" I heard Calen calling after me when I was already on the stairs on my way down.

"Emily?" I called for her once I reached her floor. It was still too early afternoon so I guess she should be here in the hospital.

"I am here." I heard her call from the laboratory. I moved there and saw her making some research. "What are you doing?" I asked her and she lifted her head from the microscope. "I am checking the drug you made. It is an amazing structure." She told me and I didn't feel really good calling the monstrosity I put together as something amazing. It was not amazing for me at all.

"I don't think it is that amazing. It is hurting our wolves and us." I told her with quite a cold voice and her expression changed. "I am sorry," She told me and I knew she meant it. She was a scientist so I also understand her obsession with new things no matter how harmful they are.

"I need to figure out if the drug on Ismail worked or not. I want to try to reverse it." I told her and she raised her eyebrow. "Rei he deserved that. He doesn't deserve to have his wolf." Emily told me with shock and disgust in her voice. "I know and I did make this drug not to punish him but I knew another alternative for him was death. They already made a drug to block our wolves out so for sure they will also think about ways to make it permanent. I made this drug to give us a chance to find some way to fix it in case they will ever use any kind of drugs like this against us." I explained to her and could sense the mixture of the feelings inside her. Part of her understood what I said and wanted to continue but I also understood she didn't want to use Ismail as our testing object and leave him in his misery now. I couldn't say that I don't understand this inner fight inside her but even despite what he did to me and how much I suffered in that dark pit, I didn't wish anything bad for him. I simply couldn't bring myself to wish him bad. He only succumbed to his fears.

"I know you are right. I will help you." She replied to me in the end. I still felt little doubts inside her but her mind was mostly decided.

"Alright, so, to confirm the damage I was thinking maybe MRI could see the damaged part if it was destroyed exactly what we intended to be destroyed but I don't know how exactly confirm if the wolf is gone," I told her, and I could see she was deeply thinking about what I just said and asked about.

"About MRI you are right. This could give us the answer about the neural damage but to see if there is a wolf we should make more testing. Firstly we need to test the subject with a wolf and maybe we can do it while staying close to the wolf and the second time when with a wolf. We heed to see the signals in the brain so recognize if there is another consciousness inside or not." Emily started to explain to me and I wasn't sure if I understood the words she said or not.

'Maat?' I asked her if she understood and could explain

for me a little easier. 'What she meant was if you test the functioning brain you see the consciousness there. Usually, if our human had to go to the human hospital we hide our consciousness deep inside so they don't see it but the same as your brain shines like a light when they are talking to you during MRI. We can reply also. Her idea could work.' Maat explained to me and I started to have a picture of what they might talk about.

"If you didn't understand what I said you could have asked me and not gone to your wolf." Emily scolded me friendly pretending that she was hurting.

"Sorry but you are a scientist and doctor, Maat understands that this is out of my expertise and she uses words which I understand," I explained to Emily and she sighed at me.

"But I still don't know how to get Ismail into an MRI without him trying to escape or hurt anyone," I said full of concerns and Emily looked at me. "Well, first, if he is already without the wolf he will be weak, and without his werewolves strength, I hope and I think. Second, we can use some calming or paralytic drugs on him." She told me. This could work and see if he lost his powers as a werewolf would he be good too.

"Sounds great. When we will proceed?" I asked her and she started to laugh.

I shook my head not fully understanding what was so funny. "We can start once Calen gets us MRI." She said, still laughing. My mouth formed an oh shape once I understood why she was laughing and started to laugh too. I didn't think about this little detail at all.