Chapter 47 The World Tilted
Chapter 47 The World Tilted
"She gave up the pack, Sara. The Luna informed her that you had woken up and that she wouldn't be accused of murder if you agreed. Karen broke from the pack and shifted to wolf form. She's been human only once since then. She already smells feral. We don't even know if she could shift again."
"I'm going to see her before we leave." Sara didn't care that Evodine agreed with Sebastian more then she did her.
"No." he stated flatly.
"You are not my boss, Sebastian, you are my mate. I have a right to confront her. So does Evodine. Excuse me." Sara didn't stop to listen to what he said next. She left the apartment and used the pack link to asked the Luna and Alpha if she could see Karen. They agreed. They directed her to the sheriffs office where Karen was still being held.
They met ten minutes later outside the one story red brick building.
Sara knew immediately when Karen caught her scent. She was blasted with a wave of hate and rage that left her momentarily stunned. Sara squared her shoulders and continued down the hallway behind the Luna.
There were six cells around the next turn and Sara could smell the other Lycan female as well as a male. Even to Sara the scent was off in some way that Sara couldn't describe. There was tinge of sourness in the scent that disturbed Evodine as well as Sara.
The Luna stopped at the second steal door, she inserted a key and opened a smaller door that served as way to pass things to prisoners or speak with them.
The luna stepped back and Sara stepped forward.
The female was growling low in her throat. Her wolf form sat on the bed facing the door. She lifted her lips showing her teeth in a clear threat.
"I came to ask you why. I did nothing to you."
Sara hadn't expected an answer but Karen wasn't blocking her thoughts. Her memories seemed to transition right to Sara. The image was a view across the street from the Second Chance resale shop. Sebastian followed Sara from the shop and as they walked down the street he held his hand on the small of her back. Sara searched the shopping bag she held and withdrew a ball-cap. Sebastian pulled it from her fingers and plopped it on her head. He threw his head back and laughed.
Sara remembered that moment. The sound of his laughter had her insides tingling. She wanted to step closer, touch her lips to his and feel his skin against hers. Evodine had been in her mind pushing her to separate the space between them.
Sara's memories of the event were overshadowed by the emotions that Karen had felt as she watched them stand in the street looking at each other as if nothing else in the world existed. Karen had felt like her world was being crushed around her. All the hopes that she harbored about Sebastian choosing her as a Choice Mate were being murdered by this unknown dysfunctional female that came from no where.
Karen had suspected the female was some high ranking visitor from another pack. She didn't understand why she was being given an apartment on the fourth floor or why she was supposedly joining the pack. That floor was reserved for the highest members of the pack.
The next day she found the file in the Pack archive. There seemed to be a lot missing.The female was listed as a lone wolf and an omega. Where there should have been a family history there were blank line. The comment section was far from blank. It described the wooded cave that the female called home. There were three different hand writings but Karen knew them all. The Alpha, the Luna and Doctor Patton, each of them seemed impressed that the female had survived alone for years. The doctor expressed doubts that the female would ever have a true shift but noted that her wolf was eager to claim her mate.
The name of the mate wasn't mentioned but Karen knew. It explained why they had put her on the fourth floor. Sebastian was the only unmated Lycan in the higher levels of the pack. Gabriel and Victoria were the Beta and Gamma, Leah and Jayson served as the Digamma and Zeta, while Liam and Tonja were the Eta an Iota. That only left the Delta and Zeta, Sebastian and his mate.
That mate should be me, not some nobody from nowhere. Karen ranted to her wolf.
Tonja had been her friend too. But now after only one visit in this cell she had ended the friendship. She accused Karen of being crazy and trying to murder an innocent.
That female was the cause. She was not innocent. She was stealing what should be unstealable. Sebastians heart belonged to her just as hers belonged to him. It never occurred to her the love he felt was of friendship and family.
Now the longer she watched Sebastian with her the more her rage grew. Sebastian was supposed to choose her. She knew that he loved her. He had proved it over and over as they grew up in the Masons home.
When Karen had arrived she had been skin and bones. Her rogue mother and father had been killed by hunters. Karen had barely made it to the closest pack before collapsing. The physical and emotional trauma had stunned her link with her wolf as she hadn't shifted for the first time. Her parents had been sure she was close to her first shift. But the were murdered before it ever took place.
The first two months after waking in hospital Karen hardly spoke. She thought her wolf was dead. But she didn't dare tell anyone.
Sebastian had forced her into a friendship that slowly grew to one she wanted. He sat by her at dinner, engaged her in conversation, punched Bobby McKenna for laughing at her in seventh grade. He helped her learn the math that her parents couldn't teach her before they died. She read well but numbers were neither of her parents strong subjects. Sebastian taught her all about angles, formulas, variable and integers. Her first birthday with the pack he bought her a cupcake with a single yellow candle in the center.
When she was fourteen she told him she loved him. He told her he loved her too. The Masons had expanded on the subjects of mates and they both knew they weren't fate mates. But Karen thought they could choose each other because they loved each other.
Even as they grew up and Sebastian was made the packs Delta they remained friends. He used to come see her the moment he returned to the pack after a job. The last job changed all of that. He returned with that female that was nothing.
"Steven says it is unlikely that she'll shift again. He believes her mind has broken. I doubt that you'll get the answers you want." The Luna's voice barely penetrated cloud of Karen's thoughts.
Her wolf was always withdrawn unless in wolf form. Even then she barely scrapped the surface. It was almost like there was a veil constantly between them. To Karen it was normal. She had no idea that her wolf was not like others. Her wolf had suffered damage in the attack on her family.
She assumed that her wolf agreed with her because she never voiced a protest.
The female looked in the small doorway demanding answers. Karen wanted to leap up and crush her in her jaws. If not for the steal door she would make sure the upstart didn't survive a second time. He hate poured out of her and Sara was left shaking with the intensity.
Saliva dripped from Karen's jaws as her growl reverberated off the walls. Karen remembered the feel of flesh and bone as it had gave way. The taste of blood and rage as she attempted to destroy her rival.
"Have you never thought of your own mate?" Sara questioned softly. "Your soul-mate, Karen. What about him?"
In response Karen thought of a dark faceless figure that held no emotional pull. She cared nothing for this figure and Sara could feel her intention to reject him. She wanted Sebastian, only Sebastian.
"W-What you feel for Sebastian is nothing compared to what I feel for him or what you would feel for your true mate."
Karen's response was to lunge at the door. The door shook. The sound of her body hitting steal erupted through the corridor. Sara and the Luna jerked back in shock. Karen hit the floor with a whimper.
"Tila." The luna exclaimed angrily addressing the wolf. Karen simply growled at the Luna in anger of her own. "This is a situation of your own making. You attacked a fellow pack member."
"Tila?"
"Karen's wolf."
"I don't feel a wolf consciousnesses." Sara paused and reached with her gift to the wolf in the cell. At first all she felt was Karen. Going deeper felt like fighting quicksand or pushing through an old wet blanket. The harder she pushed the more resistance she felt. Images flashed quickly through her mind. Sara knew they were Karen's memories. "There's something-" Sara took a mental step forward, "There's a barrier. I've never felt anything like this before."
The luna studied Sara's features noticing the puzzled tilt to her head. Turning to the cell, Tila was crouched, frozen in the center of the concrete room.
Sara had been in a lot of minds the past few months. Not once had a Lycan mind felt like this. Sara felt like she was suspended in a dark void with Karen. In front of her she felt a barricade. The feel of it was almost tangible. She reached out pushing against the obstruction. It gave a little then seemed to spring and push back. Oddly the surface was scarred with ripples of mismatched tissue.
Sara didn't know what she was doing but felt the need to explore further. Every time she pushed a memory flashed by. Some memories seemed to speed by while others crawled.
Mentally stepping forward she pressed her body against the barrier. It resisted. She lifted her hand.
"What?" Karen's voice echoed softly around her. "Tila? Is that? Are you... What's happening?"
Sara felt the barrier tremble. Shocked she stepped back.
"Tila?"
Sara didn't want to scare Karen. She didn't know how to explain that she was in her head. She doubted that Karen would like it in any case.
She lifted her hand and felt the wall again. She noted the different textures and ridges. The span of marred tissue was immense. She finally found the end of it and noted that the normal tissue felt similar to muscle. If that where the case she would say the damaged tissue was a scar. However Lycans don't scar like humans. Injuries that could leave that kind of scar would kill a human.
Her fingers slid over the rippled surface. This felt so real. It wasn't' like being in someones mind. It felt like touching physical matter.
She felt Evodine's presents like a another living being standing beside her. They were not alone. Karen hovered somewhere close by. She mumbled under her breath. Her maunderings consisted of confusion and fear but there were moments that she expressed wonder and contentment. Nothing she said made sense.
Sara felt warmth slowly spread over her palm. For a moment she was reminded of the wolf dream. But the thought was quickly forgotten as the warmth extended and traveled up the length of her arm. Here, in this unreal place, the warmth glowed. She could make out the outline of her hand pressed against the scarred barrier. She sucked in a deep breath as the warmth became an intense burn.
Luna Barbara took a step forward when Sara took a harsh breath. "Sara, are you okay?" When she got no response the Luna opened the pack link and reached out to Sara's mind. She knew Sara hated such intrusions. Her fear for Sara over-road regret at the invasion.
The Luna's heart sped up when she couldn't feel Sara. There was nothing.
Sara wanted to pull her hand back from the wall. The pain was more intense then it had been in the wolf dream. If she had a physical form her skin would have been blistering with the burns. Just like in the wolf dream she let instinct guide her action.
"What are we doing, Ev?"
"I do not know. But I feel that it is important to continue."
Sara groaned as the feeling of blistering skin slithered up her arm as if a flame had wrapped around her forearm like a snake.
"I shall help." Evodine said. She felt a warmth press against her leg. Strength and energy pulsed up her leg. The pain faded slightly but Sara could still feel warmth that was uncomfortable.
The wall started to feel less substantial. Sara kept pouring energy into the wall. With out warning it evaporated. Another conciseness sprang into being. Sara felt the others name. It was not Tila as she had been told. The wolf's name was Zevia. The environment seemed to brighten but nothing was visible past six feet. Sara drew back.
The amount of rage coming from the other wolf was alarmingly profound. A snarl rippled around them. Karen screamed.
Sara was flung out of Karen's mind. She sucked in a harsh breath, blinked and the world tilted. "Zevia."
(Sunday 03-30-2017, 12:28 AM~~~~~~ The lights are off due to the storm so I'm going to write for as long as I can or I finish this chapter. This chapter isn't going how I wanted but I was advised not to scrap it and start over.
My battery is at 79%. Lets see if this will give me motivation.
So here it goes....
I guess it worked. The chapter is finished but it isn't what I expected or feared. I will upload and publish by Monday even if I have to go to McDonald's to do it. I am so glad this chapter is over.
Question: What do you think REALLY happened in the last moments of Sara being in Karen's mind?
See I told you I would post it Monday. The lights came back on less then an hour after I finished the chapter. LOL. Happy reading.
Asha)
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