After finishing our breakfasts, I and Channing headed to the gym where the pack mbers had now gathered. "Oh and uh Selene," Channing called as if rembering sothing and when I turned to him, he said, "After this recording session you have here, head with to the elders' quarter, let's get your mark today."
"Sure," I almost scread in excitent. This was the mont when I get to et the elders and now I can make a concrete plan on how to execute my mission.
Channing waved his hand and went off, "I will be leaving then for the preparations. Just call when you are done here."
"Okay!" I said in a loud voice as he had walked away from . I turned around, and the gym was filled today. There were the common populace and all the pack mbers who were guiding everyone to settle down here. It was yesterday that I had announced that today we will be accessing everyone's special abilities and then from tomorrow on we were about to start practising in groups to improve ourselves.
It was odd how I had co to Winterwells to just end the feud, but ended up doing sothing for the betternt of the people here. For a mont, it felt like a scary thought that I was involving myself here.
"Selene!" I heard Suzan call as she sprinted towards to hug .
There was a goofy smile on her face and I did not understand what had her so excited when it was just nine in the morning. But then again, Suzan was always overexcited and the ti of the day did not matter to her. I hugged her back, not even able to reciprocate half the energy that she brought with her. "Hey, I am sorry about waking you up last night," I said, looking at the prominent dark circles under her eyes.
Suzan hooked her hand around my elbow and pulled to one corner. I did not understand what had her smiling like that. "Selene, what happened yesterday? Who was it?"
To Suzan's question, my brows creased and my mouth opened to say sothing, but I only inhaled so air and closed it again. A lot had happened yesterday, and I did not even for a bit understand why Suzan was acting like a teenager.
"What are you talking about?" I was utterly clueless as to what about yesterday was she asking.
Suzan shook my hand, holding my hand in her vigorously, "The phone call Selene. At first, I thought you were talking about bedwetting but then I realised why would a grown-up like you do that. It was when I snapped out of my sleep." Suzan bit into her lower lip raising her eyebrows teasingly, "did you find your soulmate? Who was it that had you make your bed we-"
I cupped her mouth, stopping her from speaking any further. If I explained the situation, she would create a ruckus about it so I chose to lie, "I read it in a book Suzan, nothing else."
Suzan was a bit disappointed to hear that, "Oh, Just a book." I sighed, thankful that she had dropped the topic so fast. It was so rare for her to do that instead of prying into the details. But the very next mont, she held my shoulder and asked, "Which book was it? Even I have so fiction at my place. If you want, I will lend it to you since you like to read them."
I held her wrist and removed her hand from over my shoulder. This was getting stuck in more mud. It was ti to bring out so stupid hotown story again.
My voice ca chanically as I tried to formulate the sentence on the go, "So it was given by... ah... an old friend of mine from my hotown when I ca here... and... ah... well I saw it just yesterday and decided to read it."
"Did you like it!" Suzan instantly asked like she was the one who had given the book to . "Which book was it? Lend it to if I haven't read it before."
Oh, dear Goddess Luna, where was I stuck. I should have rather called Arina.
"I did not like it," I drawled on my words and then hurried my sentence, "so I burned it." So she won't pester about lending it.
"Why would you burn the book?" Suzan squeaked, and the series of questions were just increasing and increasing with no answer that I had for her, building up hype and curiosity.
I cleared my throat and spoke in a more serious tone this ti, "I don't like to read such books. There was nothing that I understand and I anyway don't have any baseline knowledge on it, so it is a kind of confusing and disturbing at the sa ti." I was convinced with my answer and Goddess help if Suzan wasn't.
Suzan thought for a mont before talking, humming and nodding, "So you need baseline knowledge."
I scread in my head a big fat NO!
However, Suzan kept her hand on my shoulder and said, "I bet Arina has basic knowledge books for everything. We should ask her." Of course, with Arina's personality, she was bound to have books on all subjects, but I did not need them. I had read it by mistake as a ten-year-old, and the thought had haunted for months. "Oh, she is here," Suzan said, looking at the door from where Arina and Sam entered together. "Arina! co here fast fast," Suzan waved her hand in co hither motion.
Dear Goddess, save the embarrassnt.
"Hie Suzan, hey Selene," Arina greeted both of us, and I smiled back at her awkwardly.
Suzan did not waste a second before asking directly, "leave the greetings, tell fast, do you have any books on knowledge about sex." My hand clasped my mouth at the boldness of that question and Sam, who was observing since the ti he had co here, understood I was scapegoat to Suzan's personality.
"Suzan," Sam scolded like the mother he was, "mind the surrounding, there are people here." But I barely thought it was going to affect Suzan. She was sure to continue and embarrass and Arina both today.
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