Chapter 84
Zenovia
“Change? In what way?”
“I would have told you, but Cahan is the King and he wants to do it when he feels the time is right. I
only hope you awaken your wolf today, so I don’t have to be so tight-lipped around you.”
She said, and it somehow made me feel both anxious and a bit relieved.
“Are you going to sacrifice me in some ritual?” I asked and was rewarded with a chuckle.
“Cahan does not believe in rituals or sacrifices. Hell, he does not even believe in the Moon Goddess
anymore. So you don’t have to worry about that.”
“But why?” I blurted out.
We all were creatures of the Moon Goddess. Selene had bestowed us with a power to shift into our
wolves after we reached a certain age, granting us inhuman strength and power.
We all worshipped her so it was odd to hear that the King, the person who ruled us all, did not believe
in our deity.
It was said that many years ago, Selene was born as an unwanted child to a Greater God, who ignored
her for his other offsprings who were far more stronger and powerful. Selene used everything she could
to please her father, but he would always turn a blind eye to her.
One such day some lesser gods united against her to eradicate the weakling, so she fought with them
and left the Kingdom to make one where no one could reach her, high in the sky.
The moon became her throne and kingdom and the first being who she saw after iming her throne
was an ordinary
wolf.
Legend says that she blessed the wolf with her strength and that was how our race was born.
Of course, there were many such stories told to us when we were young, so I had heard some variation
of the same story in every single one.
But I had not heard of a single person not worshipping or believing in her, so it was quite strange.
I waited for Drusi to answer me, but she pretended to not listen to me. She instead walked past me
and stood in front of the open wardrobe looking at the clothes.
“Hmm, we have to find something that will show how strong you are”
“I don’t really see the need to dress up” I made the same argument I had shared with Maria, but
Drusi shook her head.
“Sorry. King’s orders”
I made a face, but Drusi stuck her tongue out and began pulling out a few dresses for me to wear.
“Hmm, this looks too formal,” she said while picking up a business suit.
“Nah, this one’s too chic” she said, dismissing another, and I kept waiting for her to arrive at a
conclusion.
When she had thrown almost a dozen of dresses on the bed with a frown, I raised a hand.
“Can I suggest something?”
“Go on,” she said while still shuffling through the wardrobe.
“Can I wear something that looks like the night sky?”
Drusi stopped shuffling and looked at me with an amused smile. “As in?”
“As in…today is the full moon and I hope just likest time, my wolf shows up and this time I manage to
completely shift. So, it would be nice to wear something that makes me look like I have draped the
night sky. Something with a light dusting
of stars….”
Her smile seemed to widen as I vividly imagined the dress, and I stopped abruptly.
“Did I bber a lot?”
“Not really”
She began looking through the blue dresses hanging down in the wardrobe. To be honest, I did not
even know there were so many dresses inside the wardrobe.
I would only grab the gym wear and pajamas 90% of the time, so I did not even bother checking
through the rest of the
stuff.
Finally, Drusi seemed satisfied with one of the dresses and replied, “Now, you have to close your
eyes. I will let you know when to open.”
“But…what if I don’t look good in it?”
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“Trust me, you will”
Saying so, she made me put on a sleeping mask to ensure I would not cheat. For the next hour or so,
she kept putting on something or the other on my face.
I felt the make up brushes touch my skin and the creams and gels with which she styled my hair,
dabbed my wrists with some perfume and even painted my nails.
I had never been someone who knew the basics of make-up or dressing elegantly, so I was curious to
see what she was doing, but Drusi didn’t want me to look until she had the final lookplete…
whatever that meant.
I felt nervousness and anxiety bubbling in me as the day ended and the sun dipped below the horizon.
The time when one awakened a wolf was never specific. Some found their wolf when the first rays of
the moonlight fell on them, while others took a bit of time, extending from minutes to hours on their
eighteenth birthday.
I was an anomaly, so I was not sure what to expect. I sent a silent prayer to the moon goddess to help
me find my wolf. Mentally, I also prepared myself for the worst case scenario of not awakening my
inner wolf this full moon.
“Stop fidgeting” Drusi gently pped my hands when my fingers began to tie a knot with the silky
threads of the fabric.
Honestly, I had never stripped in front of anybody before excluding my mother, so it felt a little off. But
the dress she had chosen for me needed me to strip down bare so that the dress would fit perfectly.
I stood like a mannequin as she pushed me through the dress, my hair going askew as she buttoned
the seams and pulled up the zips on the inside that held the dress together.
My fingers brushed against the fabric, and I felt it to be satiny soft. It did feel snug and not as if my
insides were being choked.
“How long?” I asked impatiently and Drusi said in a garbled voice, “Soon.”
She was probably holding ab and a hair curler in her hands, for I felt the soft whirring of a
machine.
After what felt like an eternity, she let out a huffed breath and I felt her sag into the bed, plopping
herself on the soft
mattress.
“Damn, I need to ensure Cal pays me for this service”
She had taken the mask off my eyes at some point, but had turned me away from the mirror so I
wouldn’t take a sneaky nce.
“Ok, are we done? Can I open my eyes?”
There was no answer for a while and I wondered what was going on.
“Drusi?” I asked aloud but still she didn’t answer me. Biting my lower lip, I opened my eyes to see her
sitting on the bed.
She was right there in front of me, yet not.
Her eyes were staring up at the ceiling, and she seemed to be having a fit.
“Dru!! What’s wrong?”
gown,
I said and hastily got up from the small chair she had made me sit in. I almost tripped over the folds of
the but somehow managed to reach her.
Drusi was sitting cross-legged on the bed, and her head was thrown back.
“Dru! Dru!!” I tried shaking her, but she was still staring at the ceiling as if something had suddenly
possessed her.
I was about to call for help when she got out of her trance like state and looked at me.
“God, you scared me. Are you okay?” I asked, and Drusi gulped nervously.
“Water..” she said meekly, and I grabbed a ss of water from the adjacent table.
“Should I ask for the pack doctor to check on you? You are sweating…” I said and dabbed her forehead
with a kerchief slowly.
She drank the water, and her breathing got even after a while.
“It’s okay. You…you know what I am, right?”
She asked, and I looked at her curiously. “You are….a girl…just like me?”
I offered, and she shook her head. “I am also a seer. My powers are not really great, but sometimes I
get to see glimpses of people in my head.”
“Ummm..does that hurt you?” I asked stupidly.
I should have had a better response, but curiosity got the better of me.
“Sometimes. I see visions of people, sometimes strangers, but I have learned that these are somehow
tied to the people that matter to me.”
“I…don’t understand.”
She made me sit in front of her and began.
“So… your stepbrother Sid and the entire thing where you got kidnapped? I saw it… in bits and pieces.
Most of it was blurred and I would have warned you, but I also saw Cahan around you…he was
hitting someone….I figured out the rest.”
Drusi said, her fingers fidgeting with the ss.
“Oh” I managed to say.
“Yeah, so what you saw right now….it was me seeing another vision. The ones I see are mostly things
that could happen in the future. So unless and until I feel an imminent threat to those I saw in the
vision, I don’t share it with them. I don’t want to needlessly worry anyone.”
Drusi’s face fell, but I smiled at her and reached for her hand to squeeze it.
“Why are you smiling?”
“You just now said that you see visions of people that matter to you. And you saw me. So, thank you.”
I said, and she ced her other hand on mine and smiled back.
“I said that?”
“No going back on it now,” I teased, and sheughed.
“So I believe you are not too worried about whatever you saw right now. Did it somehow involve me
again?”
I blurted out when I felt that she was rtively calm.
“Eh..” She thought about it for a while, so I knew she had definitely seen something rted to me.
“Please tell me,” I urged her, grabbing both her hands in mine.