"Your first choice is that you can be free and do whatever the hell you want."
In accordance to my words, I flicked my finger and said an unknown whisper as the parchnt of binding in my hand, brightened up for a mont before completely losing its color, undoing the binding contract.
The wolfman's felt a shock go through the back of their necks as they felt the heavy burden over them lift up. They touched their necks with their hands but they didn't get the shock treatnt they would have gotten before.
Their eyes widened in disbelief as one looked at his comrade and another did the sa. All of them had the sa shocked looks in their faces which resembled with one sentence.
'The binding's gone.'
I was only focusing on the main wolfman who from the start was the first to look at and his eye's may have been shocked but it quickly changed to suspicion.
That guy's smart. He knows that there's got to be a aning to what I just did. Still he wasn't the first to talk.
It was a young wolf, younger than them all. He looked at , in fear and curiosity as he asked, "What did you do?"
"I removed the binding."
"…Why?"
"As I said," I put both my hands behind and locked them, "That the first choice is that, all of you will be free and left to do whatever you guys want."
"Do- Does that an we can really leave?" The young wolf, asked with bravery.
"Yes" I give him an honest nod, "You guys can leave , run from this place or even kill the slaver… none of it will concern ."
"Lies!" One wolf, slightly older but more buffer than most of them said, "You are lying to us. You say you will let us leave but you just want to play gas."
"You will make us run and hunt us, as we desperately play your sick gas until we finally have no choice but to die like a mutt."
"So what your saying is, I the human, will hunt you the wolf. Now isn't that an interesting concept." I said with a sarcastic smile which made his veins pop as he snared.
"You!" The wolfman stepped forward but was stopped by the hand of the leader, who only kept looking with saying any word.
Seeing their leader wasn't doing anything, the wolfman only got angrier as he looked around him and spoke to the other wolfn, "Brothers! Do you really believe what this monster tells us?"
"After all the ti we've spent in blood and gore, being hunted and burned, seeing brothers die by their hands, do you think that he is speaking the truth?" The wolf shook his wrathful head, "It's all but lies. Posed to harm us at our weakest-"
"So what do you think we should do, Haylum?" The leader, who was quiet since the start, looked back to his third in command and asked.
The wolf, Haylum didn't back away from his leader, "What else? We kill this bastard and escape!"
"And then?"
"Then we run from this city."
"And then?"
"Then we find a place to hide for a few days."
"Hmm…" The lead wolf nodded and looked back again, "And then?"
"Then we… go back to Fantasna and get back our families."
"And then?"
"WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? You're asking what to do and I'm telling you." Haylum bellowed.
"You misunderstand brother," The leader said patting the wolfman's shoulder, "You gave a plan and it's good… but there's so many problems."
"What do you think will happen if we kill him?" The guy pointed at as I curiously watched this unfold, "We'll just run out of this city?... not at all."
He looked around to his other brothers, "No, they will hunt us again."
"We may be faster and if luck is with us then we will be able to escape the city. But not with the possibility of safety."
"We can hide at one place, far from them but they will doggedly search for us until they find that place. If we run back to safety to our families, then they will also find us there and not only will we be killed but our families too."
"What do you want then?" Haylum angrily said.
"I 'suggest' that we hear him out and see what he offers us."
"The only thing he'll offer us is pain."
"Which we have yet to see." The leader said and turned to , "I'm sorry for my brother, please continue what you were saying."
I nod, satisfied with not the courtesy but the level of patience and intelligence this guy had.
"Well as I was saying, you have two choices. First, I will let you go and won't approach or hunt you." I said the last part looking at Haylum as he snorted away.
"Now the second choice is that, you work for ."
"See! What did I say?" Haylum said, "He just wants us to do his dirty work."
"Of course, I do. Did you think I bought to see you dance>" I said with dead eyes, this guy was eating away my patience.
"FUCK YO-"
"What would you give us in return?" Another wolf spoke, possibly the second in command as the way he stuck to the leader.
Finally, soone who doesn't beat around the bush.
"You tell ." I said as a disconcerting smile cos to , "What can I give you that will make you work for ?"
The guy looked at his leader who looked at for a second, probably assessing my inner intentions, "We want good pay, the bounties on us lifted and a place to call ho… for all of us."
"Okay"
"And damn good respect!" Haylum said as I get my attention back to him.
"Respect is earned. I will show you guys the general respect that both of us deserve but the respect you're talking about," I say giving a dark look, "Is sothing that you'll have to earn for yourself."
My words rang in his mind as he turned to the side.
"So… do we have a deal?" I extended my hand.
The leader looked around him and assessed the other wolf's before shaking my hand, "Deal."
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