"Cyndra, hey?! You need to wake up!" I felt Jada shake my body like it was the only thing that matters during that very hour. Fortunately, I did wake up and not like the last time I was inside the car and consciously awake but with my eyes close.
"Jada?" I managed to say to which I heard multiple gasps.
"Thank Goddess. One more day of you being asleep and I would have asked the alpha to enter your mind." Jade helped me sit up before she gave me a bone crashing hug.
I adjusted my eyes to my surrounding and I was in a room. A room filled with older people and probably doctors, this is just base on their white coats and not because of the strong smell of ethanol in the room.
"You have been out of it for the last four days. We kept trying to wake you but you were in deep state. I had to perform another old magic just to kick start your brian and hope that it will cause you to wake up, and it did." Jada explains to me as I was trying to recall what happened with me.
Four days is such a long time for me to just be sleeping. I didn't even have a dream nor did I suspect that I was unconscious for such a long time, right now, all I could feel was relief. And maybe a bit well rested.
"Now that the lady is awake, high priestess it is time that you come back and visit the high palace for your cleansing. You have been away for so long you need to revisit your roots" one of the elder person spoke to Jada and those her voice was full of command, her head was lowered as she spoke.
She had a ring that has a gemstone, a sapphire maybe but I wasn't too sure, if only she wasn't the only one with a ring that's a bit bigger than usual.
If I remember my history right, they are witches with immortal blood. They look old but nevertheless they are immortal. They called Jada the high priestess, and that made me look to her fingers to see if she is really one of them.
And she is.
She had more rings on her finger than the rest, Jada is indeed a high priestess.
Jada watch my reaction before she raised her hand, excusing everyone inside the room. I heard a few grunts from the elders, but they all excused themselves, leaving me and Jada alone.
"Cy, how are you feeling?" Jada asked me in her usual tone.
"You are an immortal?" I asked but my voice cracked. I held on to my throat, only realizing how thirsty I was.
"Here." Jada immediately handed me a glass of water. I do not know where it came from, but my lips and throat are already crying to be quenched.
Not that I'm not used to the feeling of hunger and being thirsty.
My body lasted this long because of how trained it was to not receive any type of nutrition.
Jada watched me chug down the entire glass and once I was done, she was quick to take it away from my hand. I felt her study my breathing and movements.
"Me being immortal doesn't change my relationship with you. I am your friend, and you are to me. Now that you know my true identity, I am entitled to either kill you or protect you. I chose to protect you. You don't need to fear me, but you only need to trust me Cy." Jada tries to assure me. She must have seen the fear growing in me as this is my first time meeting a witch that is both powerful and immortal.
Though it may sound weird since folklores would state how witches and other supernatural beings possess this gift of immortality when in fact, in reality, there are some that is blesses to live longer than they should whilst some die young.
For witches, some of them can prolong their lifespan before they pass on their legacy to their acolytes but for others, others like Jada. Powerful witches with a chance for immortality, they are rare and they are treated like royals. They possess this immense source of power to which they can freely use and manipulate.
I only heard few tales of their life and how they managed to survive up until now but during the older days, they are usually the first unique beings that is hunted and killed. I do not know how they escaped from all the prejudice against their kind or even how many of them became immortal?
Back in Whitefang, our healer witch, Antonia, she is a powerful witch but she was not immortal. With each day that she aged, she became lesser of a person she was. And that was something hard to see as Antonia was sweet to me. She was like a mother to me, who would give me small leftovers of her food on days that the pack kids would torment me. She treated me like I'm her own daughter.
Maybe I have luck when it comes to witches.
I look at Jada and how young she looks like. I'm afraid to ask her actual age as it may sound offensive to her. No matter how close we were back in New Davies, everything is just not the same.
"I can't believe you are this someone that is so important here and yet you lived and danced in a place full of dangerous people." I spoke slowly, testing my voice as it's finally getting clearer.
"It was dangerous but they can't touch me nor they can penetrate the protective spell I had all over the apartment building. Only those with the purest of heart can enter the place and of course, the pack" Jada explains and I was yet again surprised.
I should have known she would do something like that. No wonder I never encountered anyone in the apartment building that doesn't know who Jada is. I just thought that because she was a witch that just like me, people are also coming to her for help.
"It is okay to be wary, its wise. However, you have to give this place a chance and the people here. You are going to be safe here and not just that, you can learn how to protect yourself and maybe even inspire your wolf to finally show herself" Jada holds both of my hand to squeeze them. She is simply encouraging me but for some reason her touch burns me.
By reflex, I pulled my hands away and to her surprise I moved back. Her touches were never painful before. I look at both of my hands but they were no burnt marks but since the tingling sensation was still there, I can't erase the feeling. It wasn't just my imagination.
"What's wrong?" she asks me and before I could even respond to her question the door swings open, revealing both the Alpha and the Beta.
"Good. You're awake." The Alpha spoke as he strides inside the room, inviting himself in. The beta lowered his head as he follows behind.
Jada stood up and moves away from my bed as the Alpha approached the edge of my bed to fully look at me.
"I see that you are feeling better now, maybe you can finally start your training tomorrow. I gave you a month and you already wasted 4 days sleeping." He continued talking without sparing a glance to Jada or to his Beta. He didn't even ask me if I was feeling better, he only assumed that I do.
The Alpha goes to my side, but he didn't sit down, he only lowered his head to watch as I bow down in fear. I was preparing for him to strike me or to drag me by my hair like the others from my past, and the anticipation growing only worsens the fast beating of my heart.
"Calm down. We can all hear the beating of your heart. I'm not going to hurt you Cyndra. Not that way. The only time that I'll ever raise a hand on your is when its time to see if you have gained enough muscle and strength to fight for your own survival."
Alpha Clyden spoke in a calmer tone. I slowly raised my head to see his face and to my surprise he actually have a worry written all over his face, not just him, but everyone inside the room.
Worry that easily turned into pity.
'Weak'
I small voice spoke inside my head, too small that I might be crazy for thinking I'm hearing something.
"Cyndra look at me" Alpha Clyden ordered and I immediately snap back to my senses. I look back again only to witness the Alpha surprised and confused at the same time. "You also have it do you? You have hearing. You hear things that are negative and think as if they are yours but they are not nor they are of your wolf."
When I didn't answer, he remained patient.
"Jada, from now on you are to avoid touching her, she's the same as me, until we learn more about her, no witch or wizard able to used the magic of old, is to touch her. Make it known to your people. As for you Cyndra, train for a month and when you have proven yourself worthy, I will take you myself to the high king. If my thoughts are right about you, Whitefang just lost a valuable soldier." Alpha Clyden spoke different.
He was more relax and while he was looking at me with indifference, he stood with a look of wonder in his eyes.
When he left, he left alone. Beta Ello and Jada stayed behind.
Jada was the first one to speak, after what the Alpha just said, I believe she has to explain something to me.
"I guess for the time being we can't hug each other. Explains why you pulled out on me earlier." Jada smiled. Her usual smile. The one I recognize and the one I'm used to. "I believe you have tons of questions but since I am basically off limits around you, I'll have to leave you and Ello here to talk things out. Give you a little bit of introduction about the pack. After all, if there is anyone in the pack who knows it best, its him."
Jada pointed at Ello while the Beta rolled his eyes at Jada's carefree introduction. I wonder if something is up with these two. They are not mates though, and though it is not new, falling in love to another race and not of your own, some are simply against it.
Ello approached the bed and unlike the Alpha, he was easier and less intimidating. He sat on the edge of the bed, and he comfortably adjusted his shirt as it rolls up when he slouched. He then looks up to Jada with wonder.
"Don't you have books to read or herbs to mix?"
"I actually have, I'm just about to read a book on how to outsmart beta's without them knowing." Jada answered back and with a final smile, she left me with the beta.
The room was silent and the only sound you could hear inside was the gushing of the wind outside. Beta Ello studied me, and though I wasn't looking, I could sense his eyes on me.
"You must excuse the Alpha for being a bit dramatic. It's his first time encountering someone who is as resilient as you. Well not you..you entirely, but your mind is. He's protective and all the Alpha gene inside his head is making it worse." Beta Ello started talking and like the first time we met, he spoke calmly. Like he was scared that if he ever raises his voice, that I might break.
"We both know you only have a month to prove something, but judging at how you reacted earlier, when Clyden approached you, you flinched and bowed down in fear. In normal situations, it would have been natural reaction, an omega cowering in the presence of its alpha." Beta Ello observed. Of course he'll know.
"But it's obvious you weren't just paying respect to your Alpha. You were cowering in fear because you were expecting a beating. Aren't I correct?"
Beta Ello spoke with absolute confidence. He knows he was correct. He didn't need an answer he only needed to see my reaction and that was it.
Same pity, just from a different person.