back in. I grunt, I can feel it, something is coming, something bad is coming, and we have to be ready. I get up from my bed, it creaks beneath me,

Lycan, which is basically like a Werewolf, but better, stronger and faster, I'm one of the ones left, my father is a

ill my child. New Orleans is my home, the Pack is my family, and I'm sensing threats, I d

in his honour. My parents live in Uptown New Orleans, and I, at Midtown, I'd have preferred the French Quarters, for his historics and aesthetics, bu

the mirrror, and I begi

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ld, but Caleb, our then Alpha wanted a change of event, said we had to evolve with time, so we opened ourselves to the world fourty years ago. A

prising even myself, only then do I realize I am in heat, I haven't felt this

are you

flash of light I turn back, knowing fully well it is Ca

amille" She is grinning

Alex." She says, e

cleaning away my sw

women who raised me, a

d make me a book holder, like the beautiful one

ng them married for thirty five years, it's someth

kids." I say, lockin

time I see her mother, I'm reminded of her, It doesn't hurt that she left, what hurt is the way she left, she triggered my abandonment issues, lea

elt it too, but all I saw was an empty room, and sad parents, she took off, with warning, without care, she

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sed to work with raw wood and perform harder tasks like framing, but today a variety of other materials are also utilized, and the more refined trades of cabinetmaking and furniture construction are occasi

icient Pack, we have an hospital, filled with top class doctors, we have a school, where

ge. Additionally, there are other areas in which carpenters might specialize, such as using certain woodworkin

ticalize all our theoretical kno

n my way out "Saturday is Grandma Cammle party, so

bien, Elena's son hands me a

picy." He whispers and I

They chorus, like they alway

"You know the drill, get plates and spoon, we split the m

I laugh because it is contagious "But

meal, and they begin to eat, q

e a mutant hybrid of human and wolf. Nonetheless, they are all ferocious beasts with an insatiable appetite for human and animal blood. We are werewolves, and some of us, Witches, like Grandma Camille. The exact beginnings of the werewolf myth

ing him and his sons into wolves. Early Norse folklore also introduced werewolves. A father and son found wolf pelts that could transform people into wolves for ten days, according to the Saga of the Volsungs. The father and son team put on the pelts, c

us, our heritage and ancestors but we do not dwel

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Alpha says, clapping me on the s

e pack, well one of the strongest, but being a leader is not something I crave, I'll rather follow, but I was made the Beta. Desp

ick says, with his wif

o." I say, my

" Zach, the

eady, for whoever

ection spell, no one gets into New Orleans without our kno

ould be situated everywhere. W

nia?"

kland Pack in fifteen years,

ur greatest enemies, they wan

ack is the biggest pack in America, it cou

ing, but we wait, ready for anything, we don't

hole of Louisiana, don't make it obvious, they

I know the meeting is over "

ath, I'm angry, I think I'm angry, I don't know. She walks in, and the

rrupting?"

sight of her daughter. All I can do is stare