MIA'S POV
**FEW MINUTES AGO**
It is a hot afternoon and nothing sounded better than the voice of slave coordinator ordering us inside all of a sudden. It is not yet our closing time and we were not expecting to close for the day for at least about the next five hours so everyone was so surprised to hear her telling us to come inside for the day.
" Listen to me your maggots, today is going to be a grace for you so you are going to retire to your various rooms now. Clean yourselves up as fast as you can and quickly move inside, you are to hide there untill told otherwise. Anyone seen outside will be punished with something worse than death, did I make myself clear!" Mrs Julia commanded as we assembled and we all responded with a loud, " Yes ma"
Mrs Julia is a short chubby woman that every slave in Moonshadow pack fear, she is the terror of every slave and her words are finals with us. We were literally given off to her to do with whatever she feels like since we arrived here and no one can challenge her.
She shares work among us, shares the rooms among us and says when we eat or not. She says when we start or close work in a day. She is also so mean and sometimes I wonder why she is such a bitter woman, there is never a day that she is on a good mood. Every little thing pisses her off and if you get on her bad side she don't hesitate to teach you a lesson you cannot forget.
Each and everyone of us have two or more scars from her assaults, the worst part of it being that she most of the times hit us with silver whip thereby making it harder for us to heal after each assault. We are already underfed and malnourished and healing in general is hard. One day a girl fainted due too much loss of blood from her wounds, she couldn't heal fast and blood kept gushing out from the the open wound inflicted by Mrs Julia, thankfully she was saved.
We all hate Mrs Julia but the only one thing I don't hate her for is that she won't let us die. I can say that she is the only one that cares about our life here. The last time the alpha entered the slave quarter four girls died because of a slight mistake and nobody cared about it at all, in fact everyone behaved like it's a normal thing. So in reality we all would choose Mrs Julia hundred times to any other person.
After Mrs Julia is done with her speech we all proceeded to the river where we usually take our baths after each day's work. The boys bath at the downstream while the girls bath at the uppermost of the stream which is a little more covered. The water is cold and calming and I must say this is one of the second best part of my day, the first best being when I crash on my mattress and wander into the dream land. I mean who wouldn't have sleep as the first best here, we slave away throughout the whole day under the scorching sun working on the cereal field so at the end of day the only way you can refill your energy for the next day is by sleeping.
Moonshadow pack is a big pack known for its large production of foods especially cereals but in reality they take the big name and accolades while we do the works. They deliver foods world wide including to the human worlds who needs it more and thus how they make their wealth but yet we are not even well fed. I guess that's the life of a slave, even though we literally makes their wealth we get nothing in return. I have been here for years, since I turned fifteen and I can say that I'm gradually accepting my fate here.
The bath was a quick one and we were ushered inside with haste, I don't know who they are expecting but it must be someone of high importance as Mrs Julia said. She warned that no one leaves the slave quarter or attempt going outside for any reason.
After my two years here I also realized that the Moonshadow pack hides us from others, it looks like nobody knows about them having slaves because each time they have any event they will usually hide us inside the slave quarter untill it's over. It's not like we care though because those days we just spend the whole day doing nothing except resting, the only down part is that they may feed us once instead of the usual twice we feed every other days. The slave quarter is inside a big compound so we usually spend days like this just strolling about inside the compound.
After we settled inside and the gate shut we were called for food. It is still early to the time we eat but I guess Mrs Julia wants to be done with us and go join whatever is going on at the alpha's house.
We queued up with our plates for the food, each person given goes out to a corner to eat. Today we are having watery soup and a small piece of steak, I wonder how we are going to survive on this till the next day. I collected mine with heavy heart and left the queue but just as I found a place to sit the noise from the queue drew my attention, Mrs Julia caught one girl trying to collect a second portion.
" What gave you the effrontery to think you can fool mee? Do I look dump to you? I have seen you take your food here why did you come back you deceptive bitch!" she grabbed the girl and started hitting her.
" I'm so sorry ma, I have been sick for a while now and I thought that eating more will help me get better!" the girl cried pleading as Mrs Julia's hand kept landing all over her body.
I know the girl, her name is Amina and she was my roommate last year before they reassigned us to new rooms after the new year. She has lost so much weight compared to when I saw her last so it's very obvious that she is indeed sick but unfortunately nobody cares here.
I watch as Mrs Julia hit and scratch her all over untill she had her fill. When she finally got satisfied she threw the half dead girl across the room cursing her generations. Tears filled me eyes as I watch Amina sob weakly, I couldn't stand the sight and rushed to her side to help her get up after Mrs Julia went back to sharing the food.
" You can have mine Amina, please stop crying." I consoled her after I helped her sit up. Amina and I are not friends but we exchange greetings whenever we see. In this place we don't make friends because everybody is always too busy in the field and after closure everyone is busy trying to get enough sleep and reserve their energy for the next days work.
" Wow, I never knew that we have a good Samaritan in our midst untill today!" Mrs Julia said at my back startling me, I turned around and saw her standing very close to us. It seems like she came back for Amina.
She grabbed me by the hair and threw me to the opposite end of the room.
" So you came to her rescue as the savior eh?" she snarled. I tried explaining but nothing was coming out of my mouth, I could only stutter some words I couldn't even understand myself. I was shaking while moving back and away from her.
" You have suddenly turned mute eh? You bastard, you are trying to be the bigger person, the savior?" she snarled and with a smirk she brought out he silver whip. I continued moving back untill my back hit the wall reminding me that I had no where to go and just then she grabbed my hair dragging me to the center of the room.
" This is to remind every one of you that you are absolutely nothing here, what I say is the final and whoever I condemned you have no right to play the messiah! You mutes should know your place so that we can all continue to live in harmony." she ordered.
She asked me to lie on the ground face down and when I did the whip started descending on me tearing my skin each time it comes in contact with my back. My whole body is covered in scars and yet this woman is not done with me, I wonder when this whole life will end. Suddenly anger filled my heart, I was so angry with the moon goddess for creating me and watching this happen to me. If she knew that I'm going to live the rest of my life this way why did she bother creating me at all?
With the sudden strength I don't know where it came from I pushed Mrs Julia and stood up, I could feel my wolf whom I have lost contact with some months ago on the surface. Lila my wolf and I lost contact for about six months now after I became too weak to keep us alive. I was not getting enough nutrient to keep even one person alive not to talk about having my wolf feeding from it too so she left to save me. I cried my eyes out when she left, it's a normal thing here and I can say that almost everybody here has lost their wolf to stay alive. I heard that the wolf will come back when the person starts feeding well but I still cried because I had no hope of getting a better life as far as I'm here so it was as good as me losing her forever.
" Lila is that you?" I asked her in daze, I was filled with a lot of emotions forgetting my predicament.
" Mia this is not the time for this, you need to start running." she shouted in my head reminding me what I just did. I just pushed Mrs Julia! Without thinking twice I set off running, I don't know where I was running to but I just kept running. Running or not either ways I'm still a dead meat so I should atleast try.
The wolves at the gate came after me blocking the entrance but Lila did what I never expected, she jumped the fence and transformed on landing to the ground. I don't know where I found myself but we just kept on running and our chasers multiplied, I guess this is the last time we will ever see the outside and feel the air. I'm certain that I'm dieing today.
I kept on running until a sweet smell hit my nostrils making me feel dizzy for some seconds.
" What is that smell?" I asked Lila who immediately increased her acceleration running towards the smell.
" Lila what is this smell and why are you running towards it?" I asked shaking in fear.
" Mia today our fate shall be decided, that is our mate. If he wants us and is able to save us then maybe we will live longer than today but if he doesn't want us or if he is someone incapable of saving us then we will end our worldly journey here and now. " she said and immediately come into halt in front of a giant man, at this point the sweet smell was almost choking me clearly showing that this beautiful giant man is the source of it.
My heart was beating ten times the normal rate as I await what he will say, my fate at this point is entirely into his hands.