Smoke and Mirrors Series

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nce filled the air. We were now a good distance away from the place we once

s, the descendants of those who had oppressed and slaughtered our kind, and that we

he intricate tattoos on my bicep knowing that from now onwards, I had to hide it. Most of Mankind may hav

That I, Sapphire Ragna Nightborne, became the first female Head Warrior Commander, these tatt

ld with a tiny sapphire in the middle. It had been the first and the last gift that I received or will ever receive from my mother, it was very special to

ades, crying to my mother to protect me and to give me strength to continu

at although it was a good thing he was young as it would allow him to adapt to the new style of life better, it would be hard for him to hide and go through his first shift. I remembered my first shift, the pain was almost too much to bear, but no one paid att

y bit like the romanticised legends that humans fear. Their bite was infectious as it could turn humans into werewolv

w the apex predator, but as the humans fought back, their numbers dwindled till Lycans were all but extinct. As the

e to relationships between Pure Lycans and werewolves. As Lycans soon found, to continue their li

e Pure Lycan's abilities to their werewolf descendants through a recessive gene. My case

en no reports of someone possessing an active Lycan gene in the last two hundred years. So, they told me it was just for research, to stu

o be countless times stronger and faster than the wolves now, they were also rumoured to be immune to the effects of wolfsbane and

scar tissue forming. I brushed against the raised vertical line down my wrist as I remembered yet another group of people

s interrupted when a hand t

ger are we go

s nose as yawned completely oblivious to the chaos he ju

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for whatever lived in this forest. I knew I had to hunt as well, my body had started to ache with hunger and it was o

he was still young with no training to defend himself. At this

a huge tree with a dense canopy. It was near a small

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beautiful that I almost felt guilty about killing it, but what other choice did we have. I ra

ll it or we would have

turned his face from me and sniff

e fruit or something, we

s I reached

in on us, it is not safe for us to venture into unfamiliar territory in the dark even with our heightened senses.

he other children of Alphas. They lived to train while he preferred to stay at home to read or listen to my battle stories, his soft heart frustra

t there would be few in the days to come. The scent of blood that once blanketed his own was now gone with the exception of a slight undertone. I

ime I always hated when Daddy m

use trying to get him to eat. Our kind could eat raw meat without worry of sickness but most p

at is something I cannot risk. How about you eat it raw today and tom

fore giving

t on other circumstances was filled with the sounds of wildlife meant that a larger and more dangerous predator was in the area. I caught slight movement in the dense foliage arou