Chapter 21


    Isra


    "Mommy... mommy!" A small voice shouted at me. "Eh?" I blinked several times taking in the bright


    sunlight. A small caramel colored girl was poking at my nose. "Come on mommy." She stopped poking.


    "Daddy!" The small pup shouted.


    "Daddy?" I asked sitting up. I was outside. The clearing where ke and I first met. "Oh you can


    certainly keep calling me that." I heard a familiar deep chuckle. I turned my eyes towards the source.


    My eyes met a beautiful gaze that belonged to him.


    My alpha, my mate, my reason to live. de stood there wagging his tail. "Tari, why''d you wake


    mommy? Silly girl." He nuzzled hisrge snout in her hair. "Daddy I wanted her to see me do it." The


    young girl whined. "Mommy shift! I wanna y." Tari whined to me, pulling at my tail.


    I looked to de for permission. He nodded his head and pulled Tari closer into him. I shifted and


    stretched out my legs. "Mommy." Tari giggled as she rushed at me.


    "Well now my little princess show me what it is you are dying to show me." I encouraged her. de


    gave a snort and nudged her with his paw. She whimpered for a moment until her small body doubled


    over in pain that her shift caused. I saw her small little grey paws touch the ground so unsure. Her


    small body stood shaking. Her tail was tucked under her leg. She was so small and frail looking. de


    and I rushed to get closer. She whimpered and curled herself around my leg. "Mama why am I so


    small?" She looked at me with pale green eyes. "There isn''t a thing wrong with you princess." I said


    nuzzling her adorable face. de leaned closer to us and grabbed her by her scruff lifting her a good 5


    feet or so off the ground. She let out a tiny yip of surprise. I gave de a nervous look pleading him to


    be careful with my pup.


    He began to walk off towards the small cliff that overlooked theke on our territory. I followed behind


    him. I began to think back to something or someone. I think something is wrong or maybe was.


    "Ah Daddy!" Tari squeaked as de dropped her between hisrge paws. "Hush" he silenced her and


    began grooming her while she continued to protest her fathers cleaning of her fur. Iid beside him


    nuzzling into a fussy Tari. She momentarily submitted to my snuggles before giving de a growl for


    biting into her too hard. She squirmed and wiggled in his paws until she was free and rested between


    my paws.


    "You still need to be clean princess." I said to her as I began a much more gentle process of grooming


    her coat. "What''s bothering you mate?" de asked me concerned look even on his stoic face that


    usually bared no other emotion that rage. "Nothing" I replied still picking at a less squirmy Tari. "You lie


    to me mate" He states daringly. Id given a gasp that caused Tari to flinch closer under my paw. "I


    thought something happened." I said calmly taking in the softness of my daughters fur.


    "What happened mommy?" Tari asked rolling over on her back. I gave her a questioning look. "I don''t


    know maybe I was just having a bad dream." I sighed licking at her face. "A nightmare." Tari said and


    she rolled back over to her paws and stood up and shifted. Her red eyes held tears in them as she


    lowered her head.


    The weather had taken a sudden unfavorable turn. I looked to the dark clouds in the sky that began to


    swirl. Sounds of thunder started and shook the ground beneath me. I looked to de who now stood


    on all fours with his head lowered. "We aren''t really here with you mother." Tari said in voice that


    sounded older than the sweet young voice I was ustomed to. I saw des form falter and vanish


    I felt a sudden pressure knock into my stomach. I tasted a metallic vor building up in my mouth. I


    opened and blood poured out. "No." I cried and shifted. I looked to Tari and saw shes of someone


    else standing over me. I felt something crush my face to the ground until I heard the snap of my nose.


    "What is this?" I cried reaching my hand out to my daughter.


    "Shhh mom don''t talk. It''ll only hurt worse." She said as I noticed she''d aged perhaps ten years older


    now. I felt a horrible cramp in my lower abdomen. I clutched my hand to it and was met with blood. She


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    reached to touch my face and I saw shes of a man reaching out his hand as to strike me. I tried to


    flinch away but I felt the brute forcee into contact with my jaw. I felt another crunch in my mouth as


    I tasted a tooth roll forward and out of my mouth. I was still seeing partially Tariforting me and a


    man beating me to death. Then I saw only darkness. Thest sound was a small fragile voice singing


    "Crickets chirping in the vale.


    Hear the song


    of the nightingale,


    All of this shall be yours soon


    Till then sleep,


    We shall raise the moon."