Chapter 68
After getting grandfather settled in one of the spare rooms I head down to the training floor. Walking in I see Kelly running past like she’s being chased. Soon a clumsy snow person blob thing comes rolling past in the same direction. The place is covered in cold white powder making it look like a Christmas card, reminding me of a child’s drawing.
Snow-covered hills with several sleds lined up. Hot cocoa stands throughout and lights from everything shine. Several demons, halflings, and wolves are acting like pups. Shivering in the cold I raise my temperature a couple of degrees. I like winter just as much as anyone but I am not a fan of being cold. Sid waddles over. Sid is a fellow fire type and he hates the cold. Right now he’s bundled in every blanket or coat he can find. “still can’t control your inner temp in the cold?” “shut up dick head. I was doing just fine until I made one comment about it being a little much. Your sister heard it and the next overseer thought I could use a healthy dose of don’t bad mouth the princess's ideas so loud. So I’m stuck here with no connection to heat. How do people live like this?” pulling the blackest tight around his head. Placing my hand on his shoulder I warm him some. “ill talk to them. Nyx is just feeling feelings she never felt before and no one knows what to do” I grab a nice size rock off the ground infusing it with some heat and handing it to him. “this should stay warm for a while. I’ll come to find you when I get it fixed okay.” He nods hugging the stone at him sighing as the heat hits him.
Following the most noise, I find Nyx and Ambrose talking. “hey I know you're having big feelings but could we stop talking about people’s magic? Especially when you take all their heat leaving them to freeze?” looking them over. Both looked taken back for a moment when I pointed to Sid still hugging the stone to himself tightly. Ambrose nods and walks over. “little sister I know that was scary. But look she’s fine and I bet she doesn’t hate you. Just look at her playing with Ares and Mars in the snow.” Dropping her shoulders she looks over and watches them. “are you sure? I mean it was pretty bad I could feel the pain like it was my own. I didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Mars stole the last muffin and I wanted him to pay. I just didn’t want anyone to get hurt.” She has tears in her eyes. Wrapping her in a hug, “no one here thinks you would hurt someone on purpose like that. Trust me little one you are very loved. I bet if you go apologize to her she probably already forgave you.” Looking up at me with her rainbow eyes shiny with tears. “come on silly let’s go talk to her. I have a feeling she’s gonna be around a while.” “duh she’s in the pack. Did you hit your head?”
Making our way over to the laughing trio I see the way they all look at each other. I knew they would share a mate from a young age. They have shared everything they refuse to not share. It wasn’t until they turned sixteen and got their wolves did they start trying to be separate wolves. Still, they always end up back together. There is no way two people could handle that. Even to this day, they share a bed pretty good sign they will share a mate if you ask me. Kelly looks to be taken with them both. She's that bright red light in the room of black and white.
Kelly sees us coming and stops what she’s doing with the tangled lights. Wiping her hands on her pants she smiles at us. “alpha, princess. I wanted to apologize for being short with you. I know it was an accident. I probably would have done the same if I could. I didn’t mean what I said please forgive me.” Nope, I’m out. Leaving Nyx and Kelly to cry it out I ran away from them. Well, the winter festival will be fun. She made them create two ice skating rinks. One for beginners and one for advanced. I’ll join none unless she wants puddles.
When screams and shouts of pups and imps fill the air I know it’s getting close to the stories of Christmas and good fun for everyone. The concept of Santa was new to the demons when the portals were created years ago but everyone loved the stories and traditions that they soon were adopting the traditions as well. Most of us fire types stay close to the fires and keep the cocoa warm. A few roast chestnuts and peanuts. The ice users create skating spaces along with tables and benches. A huge ice sculptor of Santa with pups and imps around him sits in the center of the training fields. A huge pine tree grown this year by Ares and decorated with ice by mars stands waiting to be lit. Every year mother and Zyaire choose a pup and an imp that has shown great growth and improvement over the year to light the tree. It started as a way to bring both worlds together. It soon turned into one of my favorite parts by all. The pups and imps all write short essays selling themselves. Clint Sonders an old counselor here in the pack suggested this so that pups and imp always acknowledge their mistakes and accept themselves for their successes. It’s also a way to make sure every pup and imp sees themselves as we do. Strong smart and beautiful. Building a strong sense of self now helps later and being able to express what they are feeling helps them cope with anything later in life. They will be able to look back and go how does this make me feel? Is this acceptable or not? No one will be able to take one of my pack's light from them.
