"I don't think it'd be a good idea," The pairer groaned as she sat in a distance and watched Eros and Hermes digging the snow. Beside her sat Aphrodite who looked more excited than she should.
"Why not?" Aphrodite frowned.
"What if she gets seriously hurt?" Inanna asked.
"She wouldn't," Aphrodite assured, "Trust me on this one," she rubbed her hands, looking at the huge pile of snow being accumulated from digging.
"I'm still not quite sure about this,"
"You don't have to be," Aphrodite rolled her eyes as she looked at the duo digging deeper and deeper.
"Would this be alright?" Hermes asked, wiping his sweat. At this, Aphrodite got up from the rock and went to look at the digging they'd done.
"Perfect," she purred.
"I'd urge you to think about this again," Inanna told Aphrodite.
"I've thought well enough and I am sure that this is the best way to get the brute on his toes,"
"What if this backfires? What if he finds out that we did this? He'd hang us!" Inanna tried to reason but Aphrodite didn't listen to her a bit.
"Nothing would happen, Inanna," Aphrodite assured again, "and as for us, Nefret's got our back. I'm sure she'd bail us out if Ezekiel comes after us,"
"You have no idea about Ezekiel," Inanna shook her head at Aphrodite who deliberately ignored her comment.
"I think we are ready for the explosion," Aphrodite finally announced after she was done examining the small tunnel that had been dug. "Is she out of the tunnel yet?" She asked.
At this, Hermes took out a small device from his satchel and looked at it.
"Any time," He announced. The smile on Aphrodite's lips grew wider.
"Take position"! She announced. Hermes dropped some explosives in the small bunker while others moved on the top of the mountain. Eros took his position with the binoculars and trained them at the bottom of the mountain.
"She is almost there," Eros announced as all the gods waited, holding their breaths. All of their eyes were trained at the bottom of the mountain. As soon as the tall she-wolf general stepped out of the tunnel, Aphrodite struck a matchstick and tossed it in the bunker.
The mountain shook instantly and the snow below their level started to descend down the mountain. At first, this seemed to be a very minor movement but as the snow started to descend, it slowly turned into a dangerous avalanche.
All of them watched as the she-wolf got buried alive under all those thick layers of snow. Inanna looked very concerned but others looked excited. As soon as the avalanche had ended, all of them went to the bottom of the mountain.
"Find her," Aphrodite ordered. Hermes and Eros were already onto it and in no time, they'd already dug out an unconscious body of the she-wolf with unnatural features.
"Leave the rest to me," Aphrodite declared. By the time she was done changing the she-wolf's clothes, the troops from the Drakkon's camp had already arrived at the location of the avalanche to investigate.
The gods swiftly buried the she-wolf back in the snow but this time, they made sure that she could be found easily. After a few moments of their leaving, the troops had discovered the she-wolf's body before they took her back to their camp.
"You know what you have to do," Aphrodite told Eros. He nodded and flew after the troops, following them to their camp.
He took cover in the shadows of the camp and waited for the king to come out. It was a work of patience and the smallest mistake could spoil everything.
He waited for the exact moment when the King of the Drakkons came out of his tent to look at the she-wolf. As soon as the King's eyes fell on the she-wolf, Eros's arrow left his bow.
His aim was perfect.
~
-HER-
The first sensation that I remembered feeling was hot. Extremely hot. It felt like I was sleeping in a furnace.
I could feel the pillow under my head being socked in my own sweat which was now starting to smell bad. I could feel sweat sliding down my forehead. I could feel the sweat making my hair soggy.
It was irritating. There was something hot lingering by my feet and from time to time it would tingle my sole, making me even more irritated. Everything was irritating me at that moment. I felt irritated in my own body.
Soon something cold was placed over my forehead, making me sigh deeply. I savored the coolness which helped to bring down the temperature of my head but it didn't last long. Soon, that cold thing was gone but it returned after a few moments, making me sigh again.
"She's doing much better than yesterday," A voice spoke. "She is much more active now. She should wake up today," Added that same voice. It was feminine and different. I'd never heard it before.
"I want to talk to her first once she wakes up," Spoke a second voice. It was deep and commanding. It definitely belonged to a man of great position because even I could feel the power radiating off his presence.
"From what it seems, she's going to wake up anytime soon now!" The first voice exclaimed when I moved my head to a side, searching for that cold thing again. It landed on my forehead soon.
"Do you think she is an inhabitant of this place?" The man's voice asked with a different kind of curiosity that didn't go unnoticed by me. I wanted to open my eyes but I was still trapped in the dream that was playing on my eyelids.
I tried to remember the last time I was awake. I remember feeling very cold and being suffocated. There was a throbbing pain at the back of my head. Apart from this, I remembered someone screaming my name.
"I don't know," The woman's voice spoke, "but she is very different. I haven't seen someone like her before,"
"Me neither," The man's voice agreed with a strange emotion laced in it. This urged me to open my eyes even more.
At first, my eyelids felt so heavy that I was finding it extremely hard to open them and look around. After some struggling, I was finally able to open my eyes but I wasn't able to see anything right away because my vision was blurry.
Though whatever I could make out through that blurry vision, it looked like the ceiling of an unfamiliar tent that I was sure didn't belong to neither of my wolves or the lycans who were accompanying us into the valleys so where was I really?
"She is awake!" The feminine voice gasped while I blinked rapidly to focus my vision somehow. As my vision cleared, the face of a man appeared in front of my eyes.
It was a face I'd never seen before. He was keenly looking down at me. His completely blue eyes locked with mine and for a moment my heart stopped.
I instantly knew where I was.
I was in the Drakkon's camp and the man looking down at me was one of the Drakkon's. The power that was emanating from his body told me that he was someone important here.
I was as still as a statue as that man looked down at me. We stared at each other for a couple of moments. He looked at me with a combination of curiosity and something else I couldn't name while I looked back at him with a sense of fear.
I could feel my whole body growing cold under his blue eyes. The heat wasn't bothering me anymore.
"Hello," The man greeted me with unnatural calmness— something with which you wouldn't greet an enemy. I didn't answer him at first and stared at him. He tilted his head aside and asked, "Are you alright?"
I felt someone touch my hand before the feminine voice answered, "I think she's alright. Her body temperature is down now,"
Even when the feminine voice spoke, the man didn't look away from me. His eyes were solely focused on me with something odd simmering in them.
"Are you able to understand me?" The man asked me next. The curiosity in his eyes seemed to grow every passing minute. "Are you able to understand me?" He asked me in a language spoke by a tribe that lived in the far west of the valleys.
"Yes," I decided to answer him in the language of the tribal people's tongue because I didn't think he'd react well knowing that I was not from here. His eyes lit up as soon as I'd answered him and he instantly flashed me a wide smile, displaying his razor-sharp teeth to me. They gave me goosebumps.
"What is your name?" He asked me next.
"Ruel," I answered the first thing that came to my mind. Now, he looked keener and keener to know everything about me and it was scaring me.
"Ruel," He tested the word in his mouth while I looked down to see if I was still wearing my fighting gear but I was shocked to find myself wearing close to nothing! It made more heat rush to my body.
What looked like a silk cloth was wrapped around my chest and the same went for my hips leaving the rest of my body bare.
Where were my clothes? If they'd gotten hold of my clothes then it wouldn't take them long to realize that I'm not someone from the valley tribe.
"What is this place? How did I get here? Who are you?" I asked in perplexity while the man continued to stare at me with obsession.
"This is the land of Drakkons," The man answered. I wanted to scream LIAR on his face but that wouldn't have been great for my cover, "My men found you while patrolling an area where an avalanche took place. You were barely breathing and almost frozen when you were found and brought to my camp. As for me... I'm the King of Drakkons,"
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