*Vanessa POV*
I awoke to the sounds of panic. All over the castle people were trembling with anxiety over the news. Falcon had conquered the Capital and had revealed the existence of werewolves to Oakheart’s human population.
From one of the windows, I could see dozens of people from the town below leaving and traveling south.
“What is going on?” I asked one of the maids.
“It’s the humans,” she sobbed. “Many of them don’t want to live around us now that they know. They are leaving for Koria.”
For hundreds of years, werewolves had kept their true nature a secret from the common folk. Those humans who were aware were those who had been sworn to secrecy or married into a noble family. The latter was very rare. Soldiers and middle-class folk were usually half-breeds or bastards from illegitimate relationships.
It was the very fabric of society in Oakheart. I would never have thought in a million years that Falcon would turn the social dynamic on its head like that.
