The Highland Luna

"Frigginomics!!"

Persephone Williams snarled as she threw down her freshly broken garden hoe with enough force that it rebounded slightly on the cool soil.

She'd only had this particular hoe her whole adult life, and she really liked it....especially since it had belonged to her great grandmother.

Scowling darkly,she stalked up to her small cabin to retrieve her cheap back up hoe, wanting to finish her work in her sizable vegetable garden before it became too dark to continue.
The damn thing was nowhere to be found.

Huffing in frustration, she cast about the quaint,  small cabin as she hunted for the elusive garden tool.

Where the hell could it be??

She rubbed the back of her neck with her small hand, trying in vain to reduce her stress level.

Sighing, she entered the cabin and shut the door with a bang, startling her two cats which were sprawled out on the table which dominated the center of the room.

She plopped down on her narrow bed which was tight against the wall, staring at the ceiling. She flung her arm across her forehead and closed her large violet eyes, which were slightly tilted at the outer corners,  giving her a slight exotic look.

Her thick mane of wavy, wild, inky black hair spilled over the edge of the bed, spreading across the worn planks of dried out wood that was her floor.

Weariness was beginning to spread throughout her curvy, strong body since she had begun to relax, reminding her of exactly how hard she had worked around her little spot of land that had been alotted to her fom the Redwood Pack's generous and kind Alpha, Alpha Filip Rodriguez. 

Persephone had insisted on dwelling on the edge of the far eastern border of the pack's territory, much to Alpha Filip's dismay, but he knew arguing with the elder woman would end up with him tearing his hair out.

She was known to be infamously stubborn and set in her ways, and he was well aware that even if he'd ordered her to stay near the pack house, which was the hub of pack life, she would just end up where she wanted to be, anyway.

In spite of her stubbornness and snarky attitude, she was extremely loved by and popular with the pack females, especially Luna Consuelo, Alpha Filip's beautiful mate.

She and the elegant midwife would frequently hang out together, talking about Pack happenings, such as who had found mates, things going on with other packs, and typical girl gossip,
Persephone was vaguely aware of the cabin's interior slowly but steadily growing darker as sunset grew closer.

Rising from the comfort of her bed, moving about to light a couple of oil lamps around the cabin.

She enjoyed a simple existence and her solitude, outside of hanging out with the girls, and as a pack elder, she was deeply respected by her pack.

It was almost October, the days and evenings becoming progressively cooler. It also heralded the approach of the annual month of the Hunters Moon, in which a given pack would host a Hunters Moon Festival, which was held for seven days in the middle of the month.

Packs took turns hosting the Festival, and this year, the Lycan King assigned the Redwood Pack to host the Festival this year.
The month of Hunters Moon was both eagerly anticipated and equally dreaded, depending on one's sex and mindset. Unmated Lycans, as a rule, would experience vivid visions during their slumber of their unclaimed mate, and a majority of these visions were notoriously and extremely x-rated.

The month of Hunters Moon was the Goddess's way of bringing destined mates together.

She loved her Children and wanted them to be happy and fruitful.

Lycan males experienced the most primal and carnal drive to claim their mates, especially when a mate's existence was revealed to them during the sacred and sensory month of Hunters Moon.

Outside of that special month, mates were only made aware of one another when in close proximity of one another.
Persephone purposely avoided these Festivals religiously, avoiding any possible chance that there was a mate out there, searching for her.

Not just no, but HELL no.

Uh uh,dude. She wasn't giving up her happy private life in her
little corner of paradise for any fucking horny-ass male dictator.