The doctor sat in front Avice, her brows kissing eachother as she flipped through the book in her hand. Adeline also had thesame expression, just that she was concentrating on the doctor instead of a book.
"Not here as well". The doctor dumped the book on the pile of books on her left and picked the last unread one on her right.
"This is bad, this is bad, this is bad". Adeline fidgeted as she stood up, her thumb nail in between her teeth.
"Is it really bad?" Avice asked, her head flying from the doctor who was hell bent on finding a remedy in a book and Adeline who was restlessly parading every corner of her room.
"Eliana, this has never happened before. How can—oh mother". She dug her fingers into her hair, her mouth unable to contain words.
"So I'm going to be chased out of the pack? But I have nowhere to go". Reality quickened Avice's heartbeat as she said.
"You're never leaving this pack. Damn, how is this even possible?" She said firmly and leaned next to the doctor who suddenly closed the last page of the book.
Her face down as she shook her head, she dumped the book next to the pile and sighed.
"Fuck". Avice muttered.
Adeline hurried and sank down next to Avice on her bed and captured her hand in hers. "Tell me, Lia. What did he do to you the day you drowned? Did he perhaps dump you inside the river himself?"
Avice shook her head. "I don't know anything. I–I'm not–I don't know what's happening".
"You have to get back your memory. You have to remember what happened because I don't think drowning can take half of your werewolf abilities. There is nothing in these books that speaks about that". The doctor explained quietly.
Avice's eyes darted to the wooden treasure chest fully packed with rocks and heavy objects. She had been told to lift the chest but she couldn't. She managed to get it off the floor though. Adeline said Eliana could lift it even without looking.
Also, she couldn't hear and smell things that were very far from her. Adeline had noticed it when she wanted to show her how to mindlink in case of danger. The only thing Avice found relieving was the fact that she was unable to summon her wolf...or Eliana's wolf, that resided somewhere in her.
"She's currently a non-shifter and I don't know how that is possible. Her wolf is somewhere in her and it's absent at the same time". The doctor rubbed her temples with her thumb and middle finger, unable to decipher the situation.
"Do you think her wolf died when she drowned? Is that possible?" Adeline scrunched her face, already knowing the answer.
"No. If it did, it would have weakened her body and probably would've died as well. And it'd take a long time to recover if she ever made it out alive". The doctor replied.
"So how did you wolf fucking disappear, Eliana?" Adeline voiced out frustratedly. "Losing your memory is bad enough. Now your wolf?"
Also frustrated, Avice jerked up. "I don't know. I don't knowing the fuck y'all rambling about. If anything, you should ask Rex and not me. I'm as confused as y'all".
"Calm down girls". The doctor stood between them. "I didn't say this is the end".
Adeline's brows fired up and her eyes were back on the doctor. Avice understood why Adeline was overreacting. She was more aware of the consequences of staying in a pack where no one favoured her. Enemies that were scared of her because of her strength might start crawling out of their holes to plunge their claws into her chest and rip her apart.
But Avice didn't want to die, especially when she still had to work for money and go back. She had to stay alive and protected but wouldn't that be hard now? Especially when the rumours about her incapability starts to spread?
"There's more?" Adeline asked and the woman breathed out before taking a seat.
"I've been in this pack for fifty three years and I've been a doctor for thirty years..."
Avice's mouth dropped at the woman's age but she picked it up before any of them could notice. The doctor didn't look fifty three at all. She looked like she was in her thirties even without having artificial cake plastered on her face.
She went on. "....I know more than anyone that these books aren't just it. They're like the crumbs of the real one. And that's why it isn't in the public library. The real one is always with the Alphas".
"Dang it". Adeline muttered but Avice was too lost to say anything.
"What do you mean? Aren't y'all werewolves? Why would they hide anything?" Avice questioned.
"The kids". The doctor and Adeline said at the same time.
The doctor cleared her throat and continued. "The main book is kept with the Alphas to prevent it from misplacing. And it's not something you can just display in the library. It's kind of sensitive or somethi—" The woman stopped, her lids down as she listened to a voice which interrupted her, in her head.
"Is she saying I have to ask Rex?" Avice asked Adeline who was as irritated as her. "We both know he's going to kick me out before i open my mouth, right?"
"Rex can't know. He must not know anything". Adeline shook her head before focusing it back in the woman who started packing her things.
"I have a patient. All bruised and battered, I have to leave". She said impatiently.
The moment she was out, Adeline heaved out and fell on the bed behind Avice. She was totally stressed, Avice knew.
That it was all because of her.
"I don't have to ask him". A voice echoed in Avice's head and she brought it to life. She turned around to face Adeline whose eyes were closed and left arm resting on her forehead. "I don't have to ask him. I can just steal it".
"Wow," she said effortlessly, her eyes still closed. "You're going to sneak into his cabin, take the book and just leave. Like he won't feel your presence when he's back. No one enters his cabin without his permission and he knows when someone does".
"It's none of my business. I can just take a picture of the page I want and storm out. Even when he finds out, he won't know what I came for". Avice shrugged, finding her idea simple and easy.
Adeline had given her money to buy a phone when she was leaving to look for job and she had been charging the phone ever since she came back from the hunted forest. It was fully charged but Avice had deciced to leave it as a punishment for dying on her. As if the phone would give a damn.
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Avice adjusted the knife in her pocket properly before dragging her big t-shirt on it, walking down the path with half of her confidence buried six feet under. She didn't want to be strangled again and let him get away with it. Though, the knife wouldn't kill him, but It'd weaken him as much as he'd weaken her.
An eye for an eye.
Presently, he was in the pack, on the field with training wolves and Adeline said he wouldn't be back to his cabin for another two hours. Meaning, she had thirty minutes to look for the book and get out so her scent would fade before he got back.
The wooden door creaked as she opened and she closed it immediately she got in. Her eyes scanned the room and the big shelves she was about to go through.
Without wasting much time, she walked towards it and started dragging her fingers on the spines of the books, skipping any book that didn't look old. Adeline said it might be old since it had been existing for a long time but Avice didn't know what it looked like. Was it small or big? Thin or thick?
She didn't know, she was just following instinct. She knew she'd feel something if she touched the right book and she was on the the second shelf on the left already, still nothing. There was no single book that talked about her current misfortune. She had pulled out some books that talked about werewolf and history but there was nothing about a wolf disappearing on its host or whatever it was called.
Avice had guesses. But they were only guesses. No one would believe her anyway. The wolf could have hidden itself since its original owner no longer resided with it or could have been stuck between the line seperating both of them, or probably.....with Eliana.
An object thumped against the floor from an enclosed space ahead, jerking Avice out of her thought and ruining the silence she had been keeping.
With heart in her throat, she stepped away from the shelf and stood in the path that led to one closed door. Was someone inside or was it just nature?
Normally, Avice concluded it as nature when the noise stopped but then she couldn't find the book on the second shelf, pointing her to only one thing.
The door.
It was a valuable book, it couldn't just be lying like a useless book in between his books. She was told that half of the things some werewolves didn't know, things they didn't know they could do, lived in the book. And probably, just probably, if she was lucky, her current misfortune might have happened before, and how to fixed it might also be there.
A very big MIGHT.
Sighing, Avice took a step forward. "Stop this, Avice. Rex doesn't like to have his personal space invaded".
She was about to turn back when her brain clicked, and it felt as though someone slapped her senses back into place or dump reasons why she should go into the room and destroy every single object in it.
Rex had never respected her. He strangled her, the vampire girl also did thesame thing, he played a huge part in her transmigration, he was an absolute douchebag that deserved nothing but several stabbed holes in his body.
Avice sighed and with that thought in mind, she stormed towards the door and opened it. Good thing it wasn't locked. There was a bed, half laid, and a night stand that had nothing but a wristwatch on it. Cold air made its way in and Avice's head swirled towards the direction. The window wasn't locked, that was probably why the round ball had rolled off to the floor.
The entire floor was covered with fluffy shag rug and there were two little tree picture right above the bed headboard. There was nothing else. Not that the room could contain any other big furniture anyway.
Quickly, Avice dropped on her knees and palms, bending her head to take a view of the space under his bed.
"Shit". There was no single fly underneath. As she was about to stand up, her eyes fell on the drawer carved into the nightstand and she pulled it out, expecting nothing.
But there was something.
And it was a big book.
And.....someone was approaching.