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I looked down from the Palace roof at the cold city. It was empty already at this time, and only people with foul intentions were still lurking on corners, waiting for unknowing victims to pounceon. I wished I could be down there with them. To score a target, mark it, follow it, and then steal from it.
The air on the roof shifted, and I turned around to see my new companion.
“You’re late,” I told him as he moved out of the darkness and showed his face.
“I had to deal with a couple of rascals on the way over, my lord. And getting up here on the roof was hard,” he said and bowed a bit.
“What do you have for me?” I asked him.
“We did as you asked. We tracked them and have a lock on their location.”
“Go get them then?”
“We can’t,” he said and walked closer to me until he was standing close to me on the ledge and looking down, the hard and cold breeze slapping against his face. “They’ve found something that we’ve long assumed had disappeared into time.”
“What is that?” I asked.
“A lost tribe,” the human hunter said, his voice shivering in reverence.
When everyone talks about a lost tribe, they do so in respect and awe, and I never really understood why. They say they are powerful werewolves, but if they are, why did they go missing then? Why didn’t their powers safe them? Why are they in hiding? If I had the kind of powers everyone professes they have, I would rule the world. I would become the next Tarloux family.
“There are no lost tribes,” I maintained.
“I saw them, my lord,” he insisted. “They morphed out of the jungle and had a conversation with the lone wolf and the murderer. One of them, which I presume was their leader, touched the two of them like they were some kind of gods. Then he led them into the jungle.
“Why didn’t you follow them then? You saw where they went, didn’t you?”
“Yes, we did, my lord. But the lost tribes have powers that we do not understand. We tried to follow them but couldn’t. They just seemed to have disappeared into thin air.”
“Nobody disappears into thin air.”
“I know that,” the man replied. “They are somewhere out there in the jungle waiting, and we would wait for them to return.”
“What if they never return then?” I asked him. “What if they went there because they knew you wouldn’t be able to follow them, that I wouldn’t be able to follow them, and that has been the plan all along to make themselves ultimately evasive? Become one of the lost tribes and evade the justice they deserve here.”
“My lord,” he started and turned to me, his eyes searching my face. “Do you not think that makes it all better for all parties involved?”
I looked back at him and scoffed. He was right. Hayley gone was what I wanted, and she took the lone wolf with her. All that would be left to do was rid Nillport of the remaining lone wolves.I could even have the human hunters do that for me. But there was something else in his face.
“You don’t think she would leave forever, do you?”
“No,” he replied. “I think she will be back, and when she returns, she will be an even bigger force to reckon with. The two of them will be.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked him.
“The tribe they found. The path they followed to find them. There have been rumors about them, and people have been searching for them for ages because they hold a great power source. The moon stone, my lord.”
“The moon stone? Are we peddling another myth?”
“I think it is time to start believing this myth, my lord. I am not a werewolf, but I was raised to understand your lives and to know your history. I did some quick research on the lone wolf and the murderer, and I don’t think they happened upon each other by chance. I think we are seeing a destiny play out.”
“What are you saying?”
“Do the names Peline and Heline mean anything to you, my lord?”
“Old families?”
“Yes, but not just any kind of old families. Royalty. The crème de la crème. They were at the top of the food chain before the Tarloux displaced them and made power transference by birth moot. Before the family was wiped out, they transferred powers into the moon stone and gave it to a tribe, stating that onlytheir descendants bound together by true love could find the stone and use the power trapped in it. I think we’ve found those descendants.”
