Two years ago

Nymeria:

My head was aching, back sore and stomach hollow. I didn't know what day or time it was. Didn't know when I had last eaten and contact with Vyn, my wolf, became more and more rare. I had given up all hope of escaping, but still somehow held on to my life till the last. I wished I could let Vyn run wild under a clear blue sky. I barely remembered colors anymore, and in my cell was only darkness.

The inmates around me had slowly gotten more and more quiet as more of them slowly died. At first the silence had been a welcome visitor, but now it haunted me more than any scream. I Reached for Vyn, my mind searching for a presence. Every time I felt her comatose presence I felt a rush of relief. Almost everyone had lost their wolves during our entrapment. I knew I was lucky to keep mine.

I closed my eyes, pretending I was somewhere else. Desperately trying to remember my home, my family, but their faces had slowly faded from my memory.

Rowan:

I sat on my fathers throne, half listening to my gamma Pete speaking of court issues. I told myself that if I could only find her, I wouldn't feel so empty. I looked around the large throne room. It was unnecessarily lavish, as if to prove to people that I was actually the king alpha. My father had liked such things, but I only ever found myself bothered by them.

Suddenly the door to the throne room slams open, and my beta Seth storms in with a guard in tow. he stops a bit from the clearly upset Pete.

"Permission to speak?" He more declared than asked, and I nodded in approval. Maybe he had something more interesting then court orders.

Seth steps to the side to allow the guard to speak.

"We found dungeons." He said and I could have sworn there was not a single person in the room breathing.

"Continue" I ordered.

"W- well, they're smocked full of people. War captives especially." I sighed.

"Free them and rehabilitate them." I waved my hand, signaling for them to leave. And so they did, scurrying out from the throne room.

That night, my wolf Azariah was the loudest he had been in many years.