Moonlit bonds and affairs

Silver Fall was a small town nestled deep in the heart of a dense forest. It was a place of natural beauty, with winding rivers, towering trees, and sprawling meadows stretching as far as the eye could see.

Despite its isolated location, the town was bustling with life, with locals going about their daily business and tourists flocking to the area to take in the stunning scenery. The town's architecture was a blend of old and new, with traditional wooden cabins sitting alongside modern buildings and trendy cafes.

One of the town's most notable features was its shimmering waterfall, which cascaded down from a rocky outcrop in the nearby mountains. The waterfall was a popular tourist attraction, drawing crowds of people who came to marvel at its beauty and snap photos of the crystal-clear water as it plunged into a pool below.

Silver Fall was also home to a thriving werewolf community, with a pack led by a wise and respected alpha. The pack lived in harmony with the humans of the town, keeping their true nature hidden from outsiders and working hard to maintain peace and stability.

Despite the natural beauty and relative safety of Silver Fall, there was a sense of underlying tension that hung over the town. Rumors of a rival werewolf pack led by a dangerous and unpredictable alpha had been circulating for months, and there were whispers of strange occurrences in the woods at night.

An entire family of a wealthy werewolf has just been wiped off by this unknown and unpredictable pack. The sudden death brought a crowd of different packs howling, who heard the shocking news of this demise. What made this strange and foreign is that the previous cases recorded within the community have been the death of male wolves or female wolves in the woods or on the streets.  Other related cases have been the brutal kidnapping and killing of young wolves that stayed away from their pack during special occasion celebrations. Often times, they will be found with one part of their dead body amputated. It was believed that the notorious Alpha and his pack use this body parts for sacrifices to increase certain supernatural abilities in them.

Apparently, apart from the disturbing howling and unrest within the neighborhoods, one could see the entire rooms turned upside down with the couches and bed-spreads torn and socked with blood: an aftermath of the struggle for live during the bloody assassination of the Emerson’s family pack. One of the window louvers on the right side of the children’s room was totally broken with patches of blood splash on it. A closer look at it revealed some rumpled wolf-skin showing something has been forcefully scrambled through it.

For the first time the Duke of Silver Fall had to visit a crime and murder scene, accompanied by the whole of his cabinet members. As they skim through the dead wolves bodies lying helplessly in cold blood in each room apartments and cranny of the house, they discovered that one member of the victimized family was not found. The splashes of blood and rumpled flesh on the broken widow attracted the Duke to it. He moved closer in amazement to this awful display, peeped through the space made by it on the window and discovered a dead body on the fence that was made with thorns of 50ml barb wires. After a careful investigation into the murder case, it was discovered that the young werewolf was trying to escape from the attacker who has overpowered him, through the window but unfortunately met death after all as he bumped into the thronged wires. Further investigation and submissions recorded that the Alpha of the victim pack had a business disagreement with the dangerous pack’s Alpha who wanted the highest percentage of the deal. But who was the rogue’s Alpha and what was the business deal all about remained a mystery.

This and other kinds of daily scary dead occurrences characterized Silver Fall. But its beauty and enticing environment kept on bringing both the lowly and great into it daily bases. Fate brought Lila and her pack into this great but mysterious city.

Lila is a headstrong she-wolf who yearned for adventure and purpose beyond the confines of her pack, she went on a solo adventure at night to unravel the mystic death around especially that of the Emerson pack massacre. Being aware that her parents would not allow her out alone due to the past emotional happenings in her personal life at the age of twenty-eight she sneaked away into the woods during the seventieth birthday of her father without the consent of even her cousin Lucinda who was her best associate and confidant.   She galloped through the woods as swiftly as she could at the speed of over thirty miles in forty-five minutes; a movement that has never been seen within her kind. Her special ability to swiftly transport herself, athletic legs and claws allowed her to jump through falling trees, rivers, dangerous leaf blades and climb mountains in other to get to her destination in due time.

From a distance, she could cite the Emerson house as she walked majestically towards it in confidence and excitement. She thought within herself that this has been the greatest opportunity she has ever waited for; to bring an end to the killings around her especially the one that took her only son away from her when he was three year old. Although giving birth out of wedlock was a taboo within her pack, she cherished the fact that she could conceive and bring forth specie to life.

She was engrossed within her thought between excitement, anger and revenge with her ears flattened backwards and her eyes closed, when she felt a sudden grip on her legs. She opened her eyes, tried to pull herself back to reality, up a tough fight and tried to escape, but eventually realized that she was no match for the rogue werewolves and submitted to their captivity. The death-blow from the Alpha, Lucas of a group unknown rogue wolves hit her into a state of unconsciousness. He feared that if Lila had successfully gotten to that building, and one of her search led her to another she would discover some fresh footprint which could trigger the revealing location of his pack to her own.

Few minutes after, she opened her eyes only to discover herself in strange den with her mouth gagged and legs firmly tied under a tree in the middle of the den.

Lucas's pack portrayed a thriving community of werewolves, nestled deep in the heart of a dense forest. The pack was comprised of a diverse group of individuals, each with their own unique skills, strengths, and weaknesses.

At the heart of the pack was the den, a large, circular structure made of thick logs and stones. The den represented the central gathering place for the pack, where they come together to feast, celebrate, and make important decisions. The walls of the den were adorned with intricate carvings and symbols that represented the history and culture of the pack.

Beyond the den was the sprawling territory of the pack, a vast expanse of forest, hills, and meadows. The territory was crisscrossed with well-worn paths and trails, each marked with signs and symbols that served as a language known only to the pack members.

Throughout the territory, the pack members have established numerous hunting grounds; each carefully tended and maintained to provide an abundance of prey. The pack also has a network of hidden shelters and safe houses, scattered throughout the territory that served as refuge in times of danger or crisis.

In the pack's strength existed the deep bond of loyalty and trust that exists between its members. Each member was committed to the well-being of the pack as a whole, willing to risk everything to protect their fellow werewolves. This unbreakable bond gave the pack an almost mystical power, making them a force to be dreaded in the werewolf world.

Lila remained on the spot under the tree after barking and bark-howling for hours without any one to rescue. She began discover strange things within this new habitat, realizing it was quite different from her pack. At the heart of that night, she noticed that it was like the daylight for the pack. They played, sang and displayed new skills she had never seen before. Even at some times, she was carried away by the night ceremonies and merriments which made her began to feel at home but soon realized she was but a captive.  She raised her head and saw a solid black colored agouti member of this group weighing 180 pounds approach her with a tray of garnished caribou and bison. Her intestines lipped for joy and pain from hunger mixed with thirst as this sumptuous delicacy was placed before her. The Alpha of the group, Lucas approached her with a bowl of water and carefully removed the thick branch of a tress used to gag her mouth. She deepen her snout into the tray and started to gulp the meal into her mouth while she raised her head at intervals to be at alert of any assumed attack or actions of the pack on her. Of course this was quite different from the normal birds and snakes she has always hunted for herself.

Lucas walked away from her without uttering a word; she noticed his grey eyes were streamed in tears and wildly revealing as if they wanted to pull out of their socket. He suddenly started howling with his two fore legs raised up given him a stand position while he bit his dewclaws into his chest with mouth widely opened that his forty-two teeth were obviously seen. She started to notice that something was not quite right with their leader, Lucas. He seemed to be struggling with some deep-seated inner demons.

The following morning, she was untied and was taken to a one of the safe houses within the territory. She started to walk freely among the pack searching for a vulnerable path to escape but found none because at every nook and cranny she turned, there are members of the pack clustered and at alert against any strange movement. Different thoughts tangled in her head which rendered her quick and speechless. How can she get out of this den and prison? What is the state of things at home; in her pack especially her mother who was suffering from the fatal viral rabies disease which has affected her nervous system? Why has Lucas being behaving in an awkward way anytime he got close to her? Why was she captured at the first place if they were not going to hurt her? All these and more kept her in a state of dilemma and confusion.

At the evening hour of the day when the scourging sun has just gone to its bay, Lila felt that the temperature on her body became far from what it used to be. She has been standing all day in the sun watching a few member of the pack flexing their muscles in a royal rumble match. On some occasions where she felt that they must have been carried away by the excitement and whimpering, she tried to sneak her way behind the den but discovered yet another members of the rogue pack keeping watch over the territory. Running away was quite an impossible task here she consoled herself to keep calm.

Due to the signs her body gave her coupled with the fact that she had a tough time in the dust during her adoption, she decided to go into the safe house assigned to her to take a shower. The safe house was intentionally selected by the alpha to ensure her safety and wellbeing. The walls were neatly calved and decorated with some mint leaf on the right and bayberry on the left to ensure that