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Authors: Caris Roane
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I don’t know what it means.
Is it painful?
Almost.
Describe it.
She had to think for a moment. Fiery and chaotic, that’s what this feels like. In fact, it feels like more than one vibration.
How many? Even within her head, Seth’s voice sounded just like him, a mid-range timbre with strong resonance.
I think there are four.
She focused on the vibrations, lowering her chin. Breathing in and out, she began separating the four strands, the source of the chaos. Each frequency strand held a strong emotional element that the shifter part of her tuned into.
She relayed the information to Seth.
Which emotion? Can you define it?
She focused again. Turmoil and ... rage. Yes. Rage, but it’s focused on some kind of territorial issue.
That wouldn’t be a surprise for shifters. Territory is extremely important as you probably already know. And you say there are four strands?
Yes, I’m experiencing four exactly.
Lorelei, our shifter population is made up of four packs. Do you think you’re somehow tapping into each pack’s signature frequency?
I have no idea. Maybe.
During this past month, have you spent much time with other shifters?
No, not at all. Rosamunde sent me to guard you.
Since you arrived, have you felt compelled to enter pack life? Your shifter heritage feels very powerful to me, almost as powerful as the part of you that’s fae.
She needed him to understand. The truth is that I haven’t really found it possible to be engaged in any community. The closest I came was when I lived in Lebanon and served as Batya’s assistant. Before that, I never stayed in one place longer than a year.
I can’t even imagine what that must have been like for you. I’ve lived here my entire life.
Yet you’re alone.
Not alone. I choose a solitary path to keep focused on the job.
So, he thought this was a choice. But she knew the truth even if Seth didn’t know that this was an old survival skill he’d learned early on and still employed, to go it alone, always alone.
And she wasn’t much different.
Is your Vampire Guard nearby?
Out patrolling. I’ve given Aaron and Charles a full update. They’ll be checking in soon. But whatever is going on here, I can’t take the risk of leaving the rest of the realm unprotected by bringing the Guard here.
Of course not.
We’re almost at Big Timber. How are the frequencies?
Easier to manage since I separated them. But the hostility is unbelievable.
One more ridge.
He rose high in the air, crossing the tallest mountain yet. The rugged peak was well above the timberline so that they passed over a smooth white expanse.
As they descended and the central, ancient conference grounds came into view, Lorelei drew in a long breath. “How beautiful.”
Big Timber was an expansive complex built of a variety of modern, log structures, including several massive outdoor platforms with enormous burning fire pits and huge torches circling the perimeter. As a famous realm conference center, all sorts of organizations used the complex throughout the year.
She saw at once, however, that in a large central area, male shifters, in t-shirts, leathers, and heavy boots, shouted at each other.
Seth slowed his flight, easing them toward the earth. I’ve never seen them like this. What the hell is going on?
With the packs all carefully aligned with their alphas, Lorelei could see that something very territorial in nature had set the packs against each other. But she couldn’t imagine what she could possibly do to relieve the horrendous tension of the situation.
Some of the shifters strained to do battle, held back by others. Shouting filled the space.
And deep within her shifter DNA, she wanted to join them.
Chapter Four
Seth landed in the very center of the turmoil knowing his shifter fighting force was a hair’s breadth away from a free-for-all. Centuries of working to unify the pack-loyal brigade had almost completely disintegrated. The male warriors behaved as they had long
Is it painful?
Almost.
Describe it.
She had to think for a moment. Fiery and chaotic, that’s what this feels like. In fact, it feels like more than one vibration.
How many? Even within her head, Seth’s voice sounded just like him, a mid-range timbre with strong resonance.
I think there are four.
She focused on the vibrations, lowering her chin. Breathing in and out, she began separating the four strands, the source of the chaos. Each frequency strand held a strong emotional element that the shifter part of her tuned into.
She relayed the information to Seth.
Which emotion? Can you define it?
She focused again. Turmoil and ... rage. Yes. Rage, but it’s focused on some kind of territorial issue.
That wouldn’t be a surprise for shifters. Territory is extremely important as you probably already know. And you say there are four strands?
Yes, I’m experiencing four exactly.
Lorelei, our shifter population is made up of four packs. Do you think you’re somehow tapping into each pack’s signature frequency?
I have no idea. Maybe.
During this past month, have you spent much time with other shifters?
No, not at all. Rosamunde sent me to guard you.
Since you arrived, have you felt compelled to enter pack life? Your shifter heritage feels very powerful to me, almost as powerful as the part of you that’s fae.
She needed him to understand. The truth is that I haven’t really found it possible to be engaged in any community. The closest I came was when I lived in Lebanon and served as Batya’s assistant. Before that, I never stayed in one place longer than a year.
I can’t even imagine what that must have been like for you. I’ve lived here my entire life.
Yet you’re alone.
Not alone. I choose a solitary path to keep focused on the job.
So, he thought this was a choice. But she knew the truth even if Seth didn’t know that this was an old survival skill he’d learned early on and still employed, to go it alone, always alone.
And she wasn’t much different.
Is your Vampire Guard nearby?
Out patrolling. I’ve given Aaron and Charles a full update. They’ll be checking in soon. But whatever is going on here, I can’t take the risk of leaving the rest of the realm unprotected by bringing the Guard here.
Of course not.
We’re almost at Big Timber. How are the frequencies?
Easier to manage since I separated them. But the hostility is unbelievable.
One more ridge.
He rose high in the air, crossing the tallest mountain yet. The rugged peak was well above the timberline so that they passed over a smooth white expanse.
As they descended and the central, ancient conference grounds came into view, Lorelei drew in a long breath. “How beautiful.”
Big Timber was an expansive complex built of a variety of modern, log structures, including several massive outdoor platforms with enormous burning fire pits and huge torches circling the perimeter. As a famous realm conference center, all sorts of organizations used the complex throughout the year.
She saw at once, however, that in a large central area, male shifters, in t-shirts, leathers, and heavy boots, shouted at each other.
Seth slowed his flight, easing them toward the earth. I’ve never seen them like this. What the hell is going on?
With the packs all carefully aligned with their alphas, Lorelei could see that something very territorial in nature had set the packs against each other. But she couldn’t imagine what she could possibly do to relieve the horrendous tension of the situation.
Some of the shifters strained to do battle, held back by others. Shouting filled the space.
And deep within her shifter DNA, she wanted to join them.
Chapter Four
Seth landed in the very center of the turmoil knowing his shifter fighting force was a hair’s breadth away from a free-for-all. Centuries of working to unify the pack-loyal brigade had almost completely disintegrated. The male warriors behaved as they had long
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