It was already dark when Katherine arrived home.
She found the marquis and his wife waiting for her at the entrance. They looked mad.
Before Katherine could let the feeling of being confused settle in she noticed Rose standing next to the marquis. She had the expression of a last born after snitching on her elder siblings.
"What lie did she tell? I swear if we were still alpha Queen this girl's head would have already rolled off by now." Ker was in a foul mood.
Katherine had noticed that Ker had been agitated ever since she met with that man in the library. This situation wasn't doing any good to her mood.
"Where have you been?" The marquis barked, he had veins popping out of his forehead and his face was flashed.
'What did Rose tell him for him to be this mad?' Katherine thought.
"Darlin, calm your nerves, It's not good for your health. Let's hear it from Katherine. Katherine dear, tell your father the truth I'm sure he'll forgive you if you apologize." On the surface, you'd think the Marchioness is trying to ease things out but in reality she was telling Katherine to admit to whatever they were accusing her of.
The mose irritating thing was, she didn't even know what they were accusing her of.
"I see you don't even have the decency of admitting and apologizing when you're wrong." The marquis said after noticing her silence.
Quite alright, Katherine was a quiet child but she did speak when spoken to, her silence meant she was guilty.
"Pardon me father, but may I ask what I did wrong. Last time I checked going to the library wasn't against the rules. If it's about the curfew, are you seriously this mad just because I'm half an hour late." This shocked the Marchioness and Rose. In most cases Katherine would have already been frantically asking for forgiveness even though she didn't know what she did wrong.
What changed?
The marquis looked even angrier, "Did you really think we wouldn't find out that you went to meet with your lover at the library? How shameless can you be? Do you not care about this family's reputation?!"
Lover?
Katherine was confused, since when did she have a lover?
"Is this the reason you wanted to call off your engagement to the crown prince?" Rose acted shocked. "And I heard that your lover is a Baron's son." This mother and daughter duel well good at starting rumors. Since when did Katherine know any Baron's sons.
Katherine had had enough of all this. She was still confused about the man she met at the library, why Ker seemed agitated and now this?
Her mind was all over the place, she couldn't clearly hear what her father was saying but it was something between, "You're grounded..." And "this better not be in the news tomorrow..."
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In her room, Lilly helped her change into her night gown.
"Are you okay m'lady, you look kinda pale." "I'm fine, just bring me some water." Katherine massaged her temple.
She had a headache. It felt strange, she had never experienced a headache her entire life. Werewolves were blessed with healing abilities, sickness was very unlikely especially with alpha Royals.
'So this is what it's like to be in a human body.' she thought bitterly. At this moment she thought dying was a whole lot better than being transmigrated, why was she even given a second chance at life anyway. It's not like she lived as some saint in her past life. She was anything but righteous.
Maybe this was her tribulation
"What's wrong Ker." Her wolf had been restlessly pacing about in her subconscious. "I need to shit. I need to run around anything to cool my brain off " Ker said in one breath.
"Cool off from what?" Katherine couldn't understand why her wolf was so restless. Was it because of that man? She wondered.
"I can't stop thinking about it" said her wolf, still pacing. "About what." Katherine was starting to get irritated, why wasn't her wolf making any sense.
First it was her own family that wasn't describing the full picture and now her wolf?
"Relax, we'll go for a run tomorrow, right now let me rest, my head is killing me."
Katherine tried to sleep but couldn't, there's no way any one can manage to sleep with there wolf being restless.
Since she couldn't sleep, she decided to just learn more about the world she was in. She finally got some books that were useful at the library.
...
The world she was in was called Earthia, it have three continents, the central continent, the southern continent and the Northern.
Celestia was in the central continent and it shared the continent with two other kingdoms, the kingdom of Avalora and Solara, with Celestia as the largest and wealthiest of the three.
Earthia was a world that worked with magic, nearly every manufactured thing was done with the help of magic.
Even though everyone was born with magic a very few people could use it. Only a few people are bone with the ability to use magic
The main essence of magic was called mana, every human being is born with mana but only those born with a large amount of mana could control it. These people were called mages or magicians
Though mages are rare, they say the process of giving birth to a mage it really tough. They say the reason why mages are born with a large amount of mana is because they suck their mothers mana, that's why most mages are orphans if not all.
In fact, the power of a kingdom was measure by the number of mages they have and Celestia was measured to have more mages than the other kingdoms, making it the most powerful kingdom.
In the past, all members of the royal family were born mages, but of late no mage had been born for 2 generations now. People are starting to say the goddess of magic has neglected the royal family
...
( Yawn )
Sleep finally caught her and she went to sleep.
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The next day, her wolf woke her up very early, before the sun had risen.
"You said we'll go for a run today, let's go before people wake up." Ker was excited to finally be let out. "Calm down Ker, we're going."
Katherine didn't bother to change out of her night gown because she was going to remove it anyway when shifting into her wolf.
Werewolves always tore their clothes when they shift so it was common wolf knowledge to strip before shifting.
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The marquis' house was located thirty minutes away from the town or anything place else so it was surrounded by a bush, the ideal place for a run.
When she noticed she was at a safe distance away from the house she stripped and started to shift
( Silence )
"Huh...." Katherine was confused, why couldn't she shift?