“Well now that we have some information, I guess their behavior makes a little more sense.” Lil shrugs as we dig into dinner. “It doesn’t make them any less d*ckish.” “The Alpha said he had his reasons, but you were on the right track. What did that mean?” Wyatt asks.
We have had the same debate every night during dinner since we’ve moved in here. So much of that whole situation doesn’t make sense.
“There are just too many things going on right now. We can’t figure them all out on our own.” Jena says.
“And yet, we have to figure out which ones are more important and some solutions may lead to others.” I rub my temples, slowly losing my appetite the more we talk.
“Well you and I can work the magic angle a little more, since Lenny is convinced and all but confirmed the Cunninghams have the Alpha under some kind of control and more than likely the twins now too.” “How do we do that, if we can’t get near them? We didn’t notice anything before and we were all basically on top of each other in the packhouse.”
“That’s the thing. I think we were too close to everything and none of us ever thought about anyone using magic here so it wasn’t something we were looking for. Typically speaking, wolves don’t have or use magic. You are the first shifter I have ever seen that can manipulate magic like a witch. Now that we know we need to look for magic, we can approach it differently.”
I nod in agreement. “I will try to get a message to Osiston to get Elena here sooner rather than later, something is wrong with our ability to mindlink warriors outside the pack. I thought she was supposed to be here putting a spell around the pack with her coven, but I haven’t heard anything, and it’s been like four months. My first thought is magic. I can’t imagine the Rogues have stopped their efforts after that small attack was a disaster for them.”
“My guess is that attack was a test to see our defenses and how we respond to a basic attack. No idea what they learned, but I do know a few guys got away.” Wyatt mumbles over his food. “That isn’t good for us, other than we took out quite a few. But, they were probably the weakest rogues and could spare them.”
“Well, Oliver said he will come by tomorrow and help too. He’s just as natural with magic as I am really. He seems to understand how it works almost like it has its own personality, like it can think and feel and respond to my thoughts and feelings.”
“He’s probably right. My training was mostly in the physical, herbs and tonics for health and healing. I never did any casting with my aunt.”
“So tomorrow. We join in the patrol and training as normal. Let’s see if we can get Sam or Mateo to talk to us too. The more allies we have the better if we have to go after our own leaders as well as the Rogue King and his goons on the outside.”
“Let’s take a look in the book Elena gave you and see if there is a basic protection spell we can find to protect us and maybe the rest of your guys from whatever Kaley and her dad are using. It will be hard because we don’t know what we are fighting, but maybe we can give them a small portion of their brains back.”
I nod in agreement. I feel so useless right now and all of the information we keep finding is just that, information. There isn’t anything that we can use to take action, so maybe this will be a catalyst.
