She had everything prepared but she could only leave at night. So she hid everything and waited for night.
When the night came, Ashley was all prepared to escape the palace without letting anyone know. She kept a letter on her nightstand and jumped out of window to make sure she is unseen by the palace guard.
She was afraid that if someone finds out, no one will allow her to go towards the valley of warewolves. She ran through the forest swiftly and as she went through that forest she started to recall the events of past.
She stopped when she reached the cave where Zune gave birth to the twins. She stared at the cave with a flashback in her mind how Zune struggled in her labor pain and how everything went by. The tears rolled from her eyes slowly.
She carresed the walls of cave and said to herself - " Zune I will definately find your whereabouts no matter what."
She then continued her journey and searched for a way to reach the valley. After sometime of searching she found a strange entrance blocked with rocks. With her might, she pushed the rock and saw a narrow tunnel.
It was the tunnel which would end at the valley of warewolves. She gathered up all her courage and slowly moved towards the tunnel. As she went deeper, the tunnel got darker and colder. She kept on moving forward and suddenly slipped on a rock causing her to slide down the steep path.
She landed on the end of tunnel with a bang getting herself some scratches. She stood up brushing off the dust from her body and clothes but when she was about to move forward she heard something move.
She got warned and her hands clutched the gun kept on her belt. She looked around and to her surprise she was surrounded by a pack of warewolves. She took her step backward while the warewolves went forward.
She knew she couldn't fight the wolves if she want to find Zune so she thought it was best decision to run and stay alive. She took out a gun and immediately fired towards sky to frighten off the wolves but they happened to become more furious. They were growling and moving forward.
She had to run from there anyway so she bowed to the ground grabbed handful of sand and threw on the eyes of wolves to escape.
She started to run swiftly but while running her ankle got sprained and then she fell down. She was now again surrounded by the angry warewolves. A wolf jumped to attack her. At this moment she got terrified and closed her eyes thinking she would end up with nothing.
While closing her eyes, she didnt feel anything at all. She slowly opened her eyes and saw a large white warewolf staring at her. She couldnt stand the frightening wolf and screamed loudly closing her eyes.
The warewolf immediately turned into a human form and covered Ashley's mouth with his hand.
" What a noisy thing "
Hearing this Ashley stopped screaming and pushed the human formed warewolf. She stood up,took the gun and pointed at the warewolf.
" Stay away from me." She said.
When the warewolf faced Ashley, she suddenly paused.
" Its you?" Ashley gave a confused expression.
" Have we met somewhere?" the warewolf said with a furrow.
" What an ungrateful creature to forget its saviour." Ashley rolled her eyes and dropped her gun.
The warewolf stood up and looked nicely at her. He frowned his brow and said with a laugh" Now I remember, you are that vampire beauty who saved my life right?"
Ashley crossed her arm and said "What's there to laugh at? Is it that funny?"
" No not at all. Its just that I couldnt thank you that time but.. see the fate we meet again but in this situation and I wonder what brought you all the way here." He looked happy.
" No need to thank me. It was just an act of kindness. And about why I came here, theres a long story behind it but in short I was hoping to find you and other person." Ashley said smiling.
" Indeed you came following me? I knew I had that charm." He said laughing.
" I'm not joking. Its serious." Ashley got in temper and he stopped laughing.
" Okay okay..cool down. As you came here, you are my guest now. In my presence no warewolf will hurt you. As you are a vampire and you are in your enemy's territory, you need someone mighty like me to protect you so follow me." He said with a wink.
" You really are proud of yourself." Ashley rolled her eyes and both started walking.
" After all this now, can I know your name? I didnt get chance to know last time also." He said while walking.
" I'm Evan and what about you?" She said while walking.
Ashley thought it was safe to hide her real name and identity as she ran away from palace. Werewolves may even misunderstand her as a spy and harm her. So she thought to stay low profile.
" I'm Jack. Nice to meet you." He replied.
" By the way, Are you their leader or what? Those hungry terrifying wolves stopped as soon as you appeared or I would be dead by now." Ashley asked.
" Its not like that. I'm....I mean have saved their lives before so they don't go against me and sometimes obey me." Jack replied with different tone as if he was hiding something.
" I don't think you are a weak vampire. Why didn't you fight back?" Jack asked with a furrow.
" Stepping in a valley of werewolves with my work, I thought it was not fair to attack them so I chose to run but luck was not by my side and my ankle sprained."
" Impressive. I never thought Vampires were thoughtful also." He let out a laugh.
" So mean you think so low of Vampires." She punched slowly on his arm.
" Ow..it hurts." He pretended his pain.
Seeing this Ashley let out a laugh and both walked by with sweet talks till they reach a small village.
Ashley got excited to see the village and seemed happy.
" What are you happy about?" Jack asked.
" Jack you may not know but its first time I have been to valley of werewolves and never knew you all lived in so peaceful place in village between forests." Ashley said with excitement.
" Wait a second. Who told you we live here in village? You havent reach to main place where we all live. Its just a camp for our hunting. We live way more luxurious life than Vampires." He said with a smirk.
" Oh..my bad." Ashley said biting her tongue.
" Um..Jack? I'm afraid you will get in trouble if I follow you." She said with awkwardness.
" I owe you a life so don't worry. I promise I will help you and protect you throughout your stay here." He said with a smile.