Carolyn's POV:
I loved the palace; it felt like my second ho.
When I was young, I was a shy and gentle girl. I wonder if it was due to my father's way of raising . He loved deeply but didn't know how to bring up, always considering girls to be delicate and fragile glass dolls, thus overly protective. It was no wonder I had such a cotton-like personality as a child.
However, everything changed when I faced a great disaster in my life. A witch kidnaped , my half-sister, who threw into the mouth of a volcano, taking my place at Lycan Pack pretending to be .
To be honest, I could hardly recall my feelings then, but surely they must have been a mix of fear and anxiety. However, what impressed the most was not the scorching tornt or the hidden monsters but the stiff and lifeless scarecrow that showed imnse care.
You might say it was the Stockholm syndro or the bridge effect, but I never denied my positive feelings for that scarecrow. Even though it t its end by being engulfed in lava, I never forgot about it, and even now, I occasionally dream about it.
After the kidnapping incident, I gradually realized that everything should change. Classical virtues couldn't help survive in this world, let alone as the heir of the Southern Pack. Softness and gentleness would be poison for and my family.
My father remained silent about my transformation, perhaps realizing he could not protect from everything, especially my half-sister. He dismissed the teachers who taught etiquette, flower arranging, and social dances, replacing them with powerful warriors and wise advisers to teach the skills needed to survive.
After spending my youth, I decided to study abroad. It wasn't a sudden impulse; if you looked around, you'd see how much the influence of humanization had eroded the werewolf race. The human-like clothing, food, shelter, technology, culture, and even traditional habits were all under threat.
The human's weakness had beco a thing of the past, as their frail bodies now housed imnse wisdom from ancient tis to the present. This was awe-inspiring and worrying, so I had to go out and see what the outside world was like. In this surging new era, the werewolf pack could not beco a shipwreck in the storm.
I spent many years abroad, and whenever I thought about the past, I felt extrely fortunate that I made the right decision back then.
I shared my experiences with my father, and one day he said, "When you return next ti, visit Lycan Pack first. The Queen is interested in your travelogue."
So, after many years, I returned to Lycan Pack. The frivolous experiences of my youth had faded with ti, and upon eting the noblewoman again, I felt that she was no stranger to
.
We had both changed a lot, and the awkwardness of our student days had been washed away over ti. We understood each other's intentions with just a few words.
Since then, whenever I returned to my hotown, I would spend a few days at Lycan Pack. The Queen cared deeply about the changes in the outside world. She said that even when she was young, she had concerns. "Everything is happening too fast; if we hesitate any longer, the werewolf pack will be left behind by history."
During our conversations, I gradually learned that she was considering opening up trade. It was not that the werewolf pack was completely closed to the outside world, but she wanted this openness to be more genuine and integrated into the world's exchanges.
So, when I heard that the werewolf pack had officially established diplomatic relations with Jasper and opened the borders, I couldn't wait to return. It was a critical historical mont, and I didn't want to miss it.
Recently, there was a terrorist attack in Silvermoon Pack, allegedly planned by an extremist organization from Jasper. The relationship between the werewolf pack and Jasper was extrely tense. Fortunately, both sides handled the matter discreetly and continued doing business as if nothing had happened.
The Queen told that the criminals were now being held in a secret prison and asked if I had heard of the organization 'the Lily of the Valley'.
"Of course, I have a vivid mory of that," I said. "On my way back, I suddenly heard news that the werewolf race arrested mbers related to the Lily of the Valley. The dia emphasized 'illegal detention' and refused to disclose the cause of the conflict as if trying to paint the Lily of the Valley as heroes. This stirred up public sentint in Jasper, and human supremacists gained the upper hand."
I showed her the news from human social dia on my phone.
"I was quite puzzled; all the dia in the world act the sa way, always stirring up controversies to sensationalize events. But this ti, they all had a unified voice, one-sidedly criticizing the werewolf pack. It seed problematic."
Most of the reports at that ti were critical of the werewolf pack.
"But later, when the Jasperian governnt admitted that the Lily of the Valley was behind the terrorist attack, the news suddenly died. Then, several Jasperian celebrities' scandals erged, burying the news."
The whole incident was anticlimactic, and it was obvious that soone was manipulating the dia from behind the scenes.
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