The Legend of the Chosen

Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? While working on the chaos theory, E. Lorenz questioned if a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could produce a tornado in Texas. In other words, he observed how every single decision we make and every action we take, doesn’t matter how small or insignificant, can shift the course of our life and of others and therefor change the future in unpredictable ways.   I personally agree. In fact, I have always believed that the most difficult part of our lives is not only deciding what to do, but also living with the consequences of our actions. Most of the time, we are forced to act quickly and then simply accept the consequences, making the most of a difficult situation.   A found myself in this kind of predicament one Friday night, when I decided to go and have a few drinks with my friends, never imagining how one simple variable could change my life forever.   Friday had finally arrived and after a tiring week at work, I was ready to relax with my best friends. After college, I was able to acquire a job in a marketing company and, even though I really enjoyed the environment and the job itself, it could get quite tiring. Therefore, as I was exiting my work place and going home, I was extremely happy for the upcoming weekend. I decided I would go out that night with my friends, relax on Saturday and do some chores on Sunday. Perfection I thought.   As I arrived at home, took my shoes off and glanced at the time realizing it was nearly 06.00 pm. I had made plans with my friends to meet up at 08.00 pm in front of at this new bar on the opposite side of town.  So I went to have a shower, I put some music on and started going through the usually motions of washing my hair and body, embellished with my singing and a few small dance moves. I took longer than usual because I had remembered to shave my legs and armpits.  Once I was finished, I put on my bathrobe, wrapped my hair in a towel and went into the kitchen to shove a frozen pizza in the oven. While my dinner was cooking, I went in my bedroom, sat at my makeup table and started to dry my hair.   I live in a small apartment on the last floor of the building, which consists of three rooms: a small but functional open space kitchen that leads directly in a small living area with a sofa, a tv and a coffee table; a small bathroom, where only one person can enter at a time, and a bedroom, where I was able to fit a medium size bed, a nightstand, a wardrobe and a makeup table. The element of the flat that I most enjoyed was the terrace: huge and it overlooks a beautiful piece of land full of trees and green. I spend most of my free time lounging on my terrace just staring at the beautiful peaceful view. When I was looking for a place to rent that was close to work, I immediately fell in love with this flat and was even more convinced of renting it out when I heard the price. It was so low that I couldn’t refuse! You see, the block of flats where I live is right on the border and therefore, it’s very cheap. Border of what you’re asking? Well, the world I live in is populated by two species: the human race and the werewolf race. Thankfully, we live in peace and even though there are a few incidents now and then, the two races have learned to live with each other.  Werewolves are divided into clans and each of them has a leader, called Alpha, and a defined specific territory. The borders were designed years and years ago during a famous meeting between the human governments and the alphas of every werewolf clan.   Anyways, my flat is situated on human territory but right on the border of the SunriseClan. In fact, as I explained before, my terrace overlooks their territory and at night I sometimes can see their patrols running along and checking for intruders. Humans are allowed on their territories, but you have to let them now by booking your visit in advance and stating the reason of such entry. To tell you the truth, humans rarely ever visit werewolf territory because of these strict rules and, well, because seeing big wolves everywhere can be quite scary. On the other hand, werewolves can enter human territory without restrictions except that they are not allowed to transform in their wolf form.   As I was finishing to dry my hair, I very pleasant smell ticked my nose, making aware that my dinner was now ready. I went back in the living room, took my pizza out of the oven and I went to eat it outside on my terrace. Now that spring was transforming into summer, I was even more eager to pass my time breathing in the fresh air and admiring the view. As I eat my pizza sitting on one of my deck chairs, I had salvaged from the previous neighbor, I started thinking about my life.    I’m a 26-year-old woman, with a good job, friends, a nice place to live and no relationship. At this moment of my life I was indeed happily single. I was obviously eager to meet someone nice, to feel all of those exiting and confusing emotions, but I wasn’t going to desperately wander in search for a man. I did miss the s*x though, I’m not the one-night stand kind of woman, casual s*x is not for me, so it’s been a while since I had my fun with a man, but I get by.    Once I finished my dinner, I looked at the time and realized I didn’t have much time, it was already half past seven! I bolted to my room and started searching for something to wear. As every woman can imagine, I had no clue on what to wear, so a simply started aimlessly looking until something would miraculously catch my attention. I have a typical pear shape body: I am tall, about 1.75cm, fit, with wide hips and a very nice plump and curvy bottom which balances out my nonexistent breasts (I mean, I obviously do have them, but they are very small).  I decided on wearing a black pencil skirt that hugged my bottom perfectly that arrived just over half of my thigh. On top, to accentuate my small waist, I put on a silver halter neck top with no back accompanied with simple black heels. As I looked at myself in the mirror, I was quite satisfied with my look and decided to do my makeup.  I have a tanned colored type skin, with big dark brown eyes, so I always try to enhance my eyes with eyeshadow, pencil and mascara. I left my even darker wavy hair loose, which arrive just above my shoulders. Since it’s warm outside I leave my coat hanging in the entrance and grab my bag checking to have the indispensable items: purse, phone, earphones, car keys and house keys. I close the main door and head down the stairs, trying not to kill myself will my heels on. Thankfully I had previously been able to find a parking space right in from of my building entrance. I leaped in my very old car, that used to belong to my parents and started driving to the other side of town where the bar “Music tonight” had opened. While driving, I sang along my favorite playlist and rolled down my window so that the warm summer air could fly through my hair.  Who would have thought that that peaceful feeling running through my body would disappear only a few hours later?