Chapter Sixteen: Truths Revealed
Just like any other night, I dream no dreams in the depth of my slumber. My mind blanks completely and it's almost like traveling forward in time. I lie down in bed and after what may feel like minutes passed, I wake up the next morning in the exact...
Chapter Two: The Other Side
It's been four days since I told Jacob I would go with him. As I should have expected, it's all he can focus on. Moving on from our childhood home, making a better living for himself with his best friend at his side and all that crap. I don't regret...
Chapter One: Making A Change
My name is Nathaniel Ray Hart. This is my legacy. I was born on the seventeenth of December into a family of timber wolves, raised in a self-reliant village far to the north of this kingdom. Unlike our surrounding kingdoms, Canniban has its own...
Chapter Nine: Short-lived Relief
"Focus.", I mumbled in Jacob's ear. Jacob knelt down in front of me on his limb high in the treetops below the giant oak. At his own pace, he lifted the loaded crossbow, taking aim at one of the orange strings hanging from the sky. I followed his line...
Chapter Eight: The Past Three Weeks
As I grasp the doorknob of my newfound home, I find it stranger and stranger each time I walk through this door. What was once expected to be my mother with two cups of hot cocoa on the other side has been replaced by a strange lab in a strange castle...
Chapter Seven: He's a Witch!
My eyes open wide. Coming to my senses, I quickly rose from my side of the bed next to Selina. As I looked out the window to catch the sunrise begin to show, she lifted her head as she gave me a confused, exhausted look. "What's wrong?", Selina...
Chapter Six: Mexican Mix
"Nate?", Jacob calls for me, poking his head in through the door of Elrick's patient room where I have been recovering for the past five days since I woke from my week of unconsciousness. "What?", I ask with irritation. It's not him, I haven't been...
Chapter Twelve: Fucking Gibberish
"Hey there," Selina's voice wakes me from my bedside. I slowly and lazily parted my eyelids and rolled over to see her standing with her hands on her hips. "Selina?," I mumbled as I focused on her face. I shifted my gaze to the other side of my bed...
Chapter Eleven: Unleash the Beast
As I lay in bed, my hands tucked under my head, eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling of Elrick's patient room, I try to relax and ignore the sting of my most recent wounds. The ten holes in my back are deeper into my muscles than I thought. Elrick...
Chapter Ten: Revelation
I hate it when I don't dream at night. Dreams always provide a certain peace of mind for me. Mostly because I hardly ever have nightmares. My dreams always keep me within arms reach of the ones I love, even from a distance. My mother, Tony, Jake,...
Chapter Fourteen: I'm Dying
From my seat I had dragged up next to her side, Selina lays unconscious on the operating table before me. I had tucked her wing in yesterday when I calmed down enough for Elrick to let me in and I reorganized her limbs in a more dignified position. I...
Chapter Thirteen: It's Ricin
"It's ricin," Elrick says, tossing the bagged white rose on the table in the main room of the lab. "What's that?," Jacob asks from his seat next to me. "A concentrated protein extracted from a castor bean," Elrick answers, taking a seat next to...