Mother of the Moon - Chapter 93 - Moon Light
Lunaya.
My head felt awfully heavy, and my skin crawled with an uncomfortable heat. I squeezed my eyes together tighter, trying desperately to get my bearings.
“Lunaya” a soft voice sung to me. It sounded like soft bells in my ears. I forced open my eyes and stared up at the ceiling. The face of a beautiful angel came into to view above me. My Alyse. I lifted my hand to gently stroke her cheek. She gripped her hand over mine and squeezed it.
“Are you okay love?” she asked, her face furrowing in concern. I didn’t answer just stared into her beautiful green eyes.
“Come on, try to sit up” Alyse said pulling at my hand and lifting me up off the ground. She held my hand in hers, gently stroking it with her thumb. Her other hand was placed on my back to support my sitting frame. I looked around and saw the faces of Hina, Pappi, Elaine and a few other women, all looking down at me. I rubbed my fingers over the back of my neck and cleared my throat.
“What uh, what happed?” I asked stuttered.
“You fainted hon” Alyse answered,
“Don’t be stupid, I don’t faint” I snapped,
“Well, you did” Hina snapped back.
I looked up at her and she tilted her head to the side. I could swear not moments ago she was full of anger and hostility, now her eyes looked almost soft. Waving her hand over her shoulder, all the other women began to march out of the hut, leaving Elaine and Pappi behind.
“What do you remember?” Hina grumbled. I paused and stiffened as the last conversation came flooding back to my memory. I glared over at Pappi.
“This idiot thinks my daughter is still alive and you think that she is the Tipple Goddess” I grumbled waving my hands between Pappi and Hina.
“Watch your tongue” Hina growled stepping closer to me. I huffed and looked down at my lap. I’m surrounded by nitwits. They were hunters. Trained, strategic, vicious hunters. How could a thirteen-month-old child survive, survive them.
“Tell me my child, why is it you believe your child to be dead?” Pappi questioned softy. I looked up at her and although her white eyes were blank, her expression was warm and comforting. A small feeling of calmness and relief waved over me.
“The hunters killed everyone” I answered in a matter-of-fact kind of tone.
“Did you see your offspring perish?” she answered without a skipping a beat.
“Well not exactly” I mumbled,
“Tell me what you remember”.
I closed my eyes and breathed deeply. I have avoided reliving this memory for the past seventeen years, with only my dreams betraying me. The pain from just thinking about it, still feels as fresh as if it were just yesterday. Everything about the way that my naive twenty-one-year-old self thought my life would turn out, all came crashing down in a fiery explosion that day.
“It was not long after sunrise that we got the call form the Alpha, the hunters had crossed the borders into Moon Light” I began my story.
“We had measures in place for if something like this would ever happen. I would escape one way and my husband, Micha, would go the other. We had practised and talked about it often, where our supplies were hidden, where we would meet up afterwards and where we would go from there. It was planned down to the last meticulous detail. It was all pointless. The hunters overwhelmed the pack fighters almost too easily. They knew everything about us, from our fighting style to the layout of the village. They knew it all. It became clear that it was no ordinary accidental hunter raid, it was planned, and they were ready. After I said goodbye to Micha, I made it to the edge of the border before I was surrounded. After I realised that I was cornered and had no choice but to change into my wolf if we had any chance of survival, I hid my baby inside a hollowed tree and tried to lead them away from her”.
Alyse moved herself close to me and wrapped her arm over my shoulder. I have told her little about the events of that day. She worked a lot of it out herself, but after a while she stopped asking me about what she didn’t know. Hina had sat on the floor next to Pappi, resting one hand on her knee and was watching and listening with great interest.
“I don’t much remember what happened after that, I killed as many as I could, keeping them away from the tree. The weapons they used were unlike anything we had seen before. They had liquid aconite capsules set in the bullets and smoke canisters with gassed aconite. In the end my injuries were too much. I couldn’t hold up against the poison, I was weak and just couldn’t fight any longer. I remember laying in the snow unable to move, my wolf energy had expired, and I had no choice but to change back. I could see a man holding my baby and walking through the trees. I can still hear her screams.” I sobbed as I cradled my head in my hands. My heart ached with every single beat. The earth could open up and swallow me whole right now and I would welcome death. I’m a failure, a weak and useless failure.
“I found Moon Light as the sun was setting” Alyse began, still holding onto me.
“The sight was horrifying, blood and dead wolves everywhere. I couldn’t take a step without stepping in blood. The smell of gunpowder and death was nauseating. I was about to turn and run when I heard Lunaya breathing. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to have survived an attack like that, but she did. Every one of my instincts were telling me to leave and run as far from there as I could, but there was something in the back of my mind stopping me. I don’t know what it was. Like a voice or some kind of force inside me, pushing me towards her. I can’t explain it, I just knew that I had to save her. I dragged her body into a half burnt out house and went about pulling out the bullets and flushing the wounds. To this day, I don’t understand how she survived. The wounds should have been enough to end her life, mixed with the amount of poison in her blood, it’s a miracle that she is still here” Alyse spoke proudly as she rested her head on my shoulder. I lifted my head and turned to kiss her forehead. She is my saviour, in every possible way. I looked back to Pappi and continued my story.
“As soon as I was strong enough to move, I went to the place I was meant to meet Micha and waited. For weeks I waited, but he never showed. So, I started searching. Alyse took me back to where she found me, and I started there. It didn’t matter how nasty I was or how many times I told her to leave me, she didn’t, she stayed by my side and helped me the entire time. By then, it had been weeks since the attack and the wolves were already decomposing. I could barely tell them apart anymore, so I had no idea if one of them was Micha. I never found his body, or my babies.”
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