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Chapter 1.4 - FINDING FAITH

"It passes the time, plus I don't mind" I told her kindly.

She smiled softly at that and glanced at the two chairs set up beside a small table set up just to the right of us, "if you say so dear but please have it sit just for a moment I've noticed you have been doing this for a while a break won't hurt."
She motioned up as she made her way over to the décor setup, "I'll even join you for company."

"Sorry, but I've never seen you before" I told her as we took our seats at the table, "what is your name ma'am?" I asked her.

"I'm Judith" she smiles out, "nice to meet you young lady".

Ms. Judith, I never had a name to a face but I do know who she is, she's an Omega Werewolf, an Elder Omega in her stature due to her age, but not an Elder in the council, though highly respected and strong due to her long time, well strong within the omegas. My guess age comes with more training and learning of that all around being alive for so long with a wolf's  life span it only makes sense.

My guess age comes with more training and learning of that all's round being alive for so long with a wolf's life span if only makes sense.

"I'm Eleanor."

"I know" she states, I just nodded my head at that, of course she did who hasn't heard of me by now.
"How have you been child? With everything that has been going on?" she questioned.

I let out a shaky breath at that, no one asked me that before, 'how am I feeling' like I'm getting hit by a truck over and over again.

"How come you're speaking with me miss?" I question back but she just let out a dismissive chuckle at that.

"Am I not allowed? Believe it or not some of us really don't care, things happen in life that we have no control over, it's you younger and way younger folks with the high egos who make things a fuss young lady" she tells me.

"You lost your wolf by losing a mate. It's sad that it has happened but it's okay you'll learn to deal with it all. Even the whispers all around you trust me it'll make you strong, believe me sweetheart I have nothing but wisdom and experience in it being an Omega."

"I'm afraid I beat you there Ms. Judith even if I was still a wolf the whispers would grow louder with me in the room than with any Omega they always had, I've heard them all the time and it sucked." I whimpered out.

Finally, with someone I can share something with, truly, it allows some of that pain I've been feeling to the surface because in some way she understands, maybe all the weak do. I wonder if that's why Tyler spoke out to me because he just knew.

"Okay and why is that?" she asked with the tilt of her head for me to continue the topic of what I dove into from her previous statement.

"Because I'm a Latean," I told her, "Or as those who like to graciously rubbed in my face and say I was to make me finally say I'm no longer one of them but I am in my bones." I finished strongly.

"A Latean Werewolf, very few of those, a wolf cursed to never shift into their rightful beast" she speaks like it's some type of folklore. Though a word did catch my ear very well.

"A curse?" I confusingly questioned.

"That's what they say, not much on the show, though there are many just like that, a said curse speculation without the story or the story well hidden, maybe one day a book will reveal and tell the tale," She answers.

"I guess maybe that's why I was just led here then" I speculated, considering I've never been in here before at all in my life, sad to say.

When I had a book, it was just given to me by someone willing to pass it along or one of my parents acting like one just for the hell of it.

"Maybe" she says suspiciously, "you'll just have to read and see then, plus having you around won't be so bad now would it."

"That was a very weird Ms. Judith in how you spoke that word 'maybe' she I be concerned?" I asked warily.

"I'm just an old woman child who believes a little is all, don't take no mind to it, but just now somethings are for a reason and with us with all this great wisdom we are usually right."
I chuckled at her words, taking great joy in speaking with her, a woman who reminds me of my grandmother, another old wise woman I once knew and cared for deeply.

"Have a little faith Eleanor," she continues "I have a great feeling you're special, you'll be extraordinary and you'll reach where you need to soon in life no rush at all and though it maybe a hard bumpy ride you'll reach the end stronger then every for Latean wolf, the strongest of them all."

She then gently sends me a final kind smile before removing herself from the chair to take her leave back to where she was before. "Hopefully I'll see you here again some in the days to come." Then she was off taking that small cart with her as she went.

I took her words in great stride, grateful for that conversation for a sense of some type of peace in my chaotic life.

With a truthful small smile on my face that I haven't had in a long while not since granny was here. Extraordinary, granny said the same thing about me everyday growing up. 'You'll be extraordinary my little Eleanor.'