Chapter 84

Zenovia

“Change? In what way?”

“I would have told you, but Callahan 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.

“Callahan 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 claiming 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 Drusilla 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

Drusilla shook her head.

“Sorry. King’s orders”

I made a face, but Drusilla 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?”

Drusilla stopped shuffling and looked at me with an amused smile. “As in?”

“As in…today is the full moon and I hope just like last 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 blabber 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, Drusilla 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?”

“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 Drusilla didn’t want me to look until she had the final look complete…

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” Drusilla gently slapped 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 Drusilla said in a garbled voice, “Soon.”

She was probably holding a comb 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 glance.

“Ok, are we done? Can I open my eyes?”

There was no answer for a while and I wondered what was going on.

“Drusilla?” 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.

Drusilla 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 Drusilla gulped nervously.

“Water..” she said meekly, and I grabbed a glass 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 Callahan around you…he was

hitting someone….I figured out the rest.”

Drusilla said, her fingers fidgeting with the glass.

“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.”

Drusilla’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 placed her other hand on mine and smiled back.

“I said that?”

“No going back on it now,” I teased, and she laughed.

“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 relatively calm.

“Eh..” She thought about it for a while, so I knew she had definitely seen something related to me.

“Please tell me,” I urged her, grabbing both her hands in mine.