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After one more nudge against his head, I was off to greet the others. Onyx, Neo, Saint, Dimitris, and even Viktor were here, though he was sitting and watching me like a hawk.
I didn’t tackle him, as if I understood he was still tired, so I simply pressed my forehead against his and he proceeded to lick my cheeks as if to wipe away my hidden tears.
It took his gesture of comfort to make me realize what I had. To confirm that I wasn’t a loser at all. This was my lesson for me to understand that friends come and go, but my pack, they were here to stay.
Crowding around me, they created a circle with me right in the center, allowing me to acknowledge each of them as tiny rays of sunlight began to pierce out of the departing grey clouds.
Together, they began to howl, like a chant for me to absorb and listen to. It took a bit of repetition, but I began to catch onto their howls of encouragement. The sound sought to uplift me.
My Forbidden Pack could feel my sadness, heartache, and feelings of defeat, and this was their way of telling me that I hadn’t lost. This was simply a battle, one that forced me to lose someone I carried about, but we didn’t lose the war.
We had each other; every one of us once was a lone wolf in this cruel world, but here we were. The nine of us.
We made organizations tremble, packs scramble, and soon, we were going to make the very Coven, who was beginning to become the source of all our problems, feel our wrath.
They were reminding me that I was the link that brought them all together. That this pack was Willow’s Forbidden Pack.
There would be harder days, instances that would test and frighten me, but I wasn’t in this fight by myself anymore. I was supported, protected, and it was time for me to stop letting the world punch me left and right.
My time as a vulnerable punching bag had to end today, and it started with letting it all out. Letting the emotions be free by returning them to the very universe around us.
So I joined in with the howls, letting my sadness out. I howled out my pain, my anger, my sorrow, and my fear of what was to come. The sounds carried their own unique tone, and it was supported by my men as they let those emotions ooze out like a hymn to the world around us.
We were clearing it all out until I felt free. Once it was all done, we ran as a whole. There were no orders or drills. We simply ran as one unit, and it had never felt this good to be surrounded by my own.
Today my best friend let me go…and only time would tell if I could accept that our common enemy was about to get exactly what she desired.
