whisked away into a dream...
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Before my eyes open, I smell the damp of the environment around me. I hear the hushed whispers of my captors. I strain to listen but can't focus enough to make anything out clearly. My throat feels dry and scratchy like I had not drunk in over a week, and my eyes felt heavy. Suddenly, I heard a voice I thought had abandoned me forever, senna my wolf. 'We're free, Isana.' In that moment, I felt strength return to me but not enough to force myself to move. Our bond had healed, and I knew in that moment the next time I shifted, I wouldn't feel pain but joy. As a wolf united both in body and spirit, shifting is as easy as breathing, but when your wolf spirit disconnects from you, it's painful to shift. You're weaker than a beta, but you're still able to shift to run away fast. At full strength, however united with your wolf as a Luna, you have the strength to not only defend your pups but your entire pack. 'Senna' I reached out tentatively with my mind, and she replied 'yes' softly 'can you ever forgive me?' I asked her, knowing that had I listened to her and rejected the mate bond, we would have never been in this position. The mate bond is sacred a gift from the goddess, but sometimes our wolf spirit will see something that we can not through the bond. Its very rare for our wolf spirits to reject our goddess given mates, but if they do, it's for a damn good reason. 'I forgive you,' Senna replied solemnly. I breathed a sigh of relief and finally opened my eyes. As my vision adjusted I took in my surroundings, the soft light illuminated the room through the small window the smoothed wooden floors and the maroon coloured bricked walls and the bedside table with a clear glass and sealed cold bottle of water and a sealed packet of crackers. Then there was the bed which I was on where I was gently placed with a tartan duvet cover over me. I couldn't make sense of any of it. Why take me and yet set nothing in place to keep me?
I took the water and sipped tentatively so as not to waste it and eyed the crackers. As hungry as I was, there was no way I was touching those. I hate crackers, and they make my mouth dry and my mood sour. After finishing the water, I slipped off the bed and sneaked over to the window, and what I saw made my heart soar. There was a crystal clear lake surrounded by a mountain forest and children playing by the water as their parents watched them. I saw a happy community that reminded me of my father's before he handed me over to my mate and in that moment the happiness I'd felt seeing everyone so happy my heart sank knowing I'd never see my father again.
I heard the door creak, and my heart raced. My skin tingled, and fear hit me like a freight train until his scent encompassed me. 'MATE!' Senna howled in my mind, but before I could register what was happening, I was pinned against the window, and I screamed. Seeing my fear, my mate stopped stepping back and sheepishly scratched his neck looking to the floor. "I'm so sorry, ma..mate I urrr I got carried away.... did I hurt you?" As his last words stammered through, I saw his eyes connect to mine, and I recognised the look of guilt and shame I had seen in my own eyes one too many times. We held eachothers gaze for what seemed like an eternity before Senna piped up.'Say something, Isana.' My eyes widened as I found my voice. " No, you didn't hurt me.... but you can't be my mate." And with great shame and pain at seeing the hurt of rejection in his eyes, I stammered."No... not because I don't want you... but be... because I already have a m.ma...mate, " saying that I felt my heart break seeing the pain in his deep brown eyes.
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