Speaking
Serafine POV
I’m amazed. The more I read about knotting and the differences between the ranks, the more amazed I become. I always assumed knotting was about pregnancy. These books go deeper than that, though.
An Alpha’s knot isn’t just about easing the female’s Heat or about pregnancy, they also have the ability to soul mark. Not all Alphas, apparently. According to this book, though, some Alphas, the more they ket with a female, the more chance there is that they will mark the female with their soul.
They don’t know it’s happening, but apparently, it can leave a permanent echo that other wolves can sense, and even after distance and years, that echo can still remain. Apparently, it’s only ever recorded in a few Alphas and never in anyone lower than that.
There’s also something called Blood Tie, where an Alpha’s knot has the ability to awaken an unknown female’s dormant bloodline or awaken powers that have otherwise been hidden. I’m so confused by this.
All of it is confusing; everything I thought I knew, I’m learning I didn’t. It’s all wrong, entirely. None of it is right. Sighing, I rub my face. The pages I’m reading in this book barely look used. Does anyone ever read this deep into the book?
I feel like no one has. The first pages, which are the basics of knotting, are clearly worn and well used, but the others, like the ones about Blood Tie, the pages are perfect.
How can someone with so many books at their fingertips, and so much knowledge, not try to read it all? How can they read the basics and not look deeper?
I want to find something about female Alphas. How is it possible that there’s never been a case of it before? I know the stories, every time there was a twin pregnancy, one survived, and it was always the male.
Why me? I feel like it’s a cruel twist of fate where they gave me something that is meant to be good, and instead it’s seen as a curse. There have to be others, I cannot be the only female in this situation. There has to be other alphas who only had a daughter, right?
The sky outside becomes darker, and I stand, deciding to give up for tonight. I can read more tomorrow; all I want is to find one book and one passage that explains who I am meant to be.
Am I simply an Omega? Am I meant to be Alpha? I admit I don’t know how these things work, but for all females to be born and be the only child and them not be Alpha is weird. Why men only?
As I’m leaving, I stop when a book falls from a shelf. As I look toward it I see a Hollowborn Raven. My body freezes, and I begin to step back, getting closer to the door.
It lands on the book, its head lowers, and its beak pecks at it.
“Keep the book,” I whisper and move back more. While ever it’s interested in the book it won’t come near me. Maybe I should scream? Then again screaming might make it think I’m an enemy.
I reach back with my hand and feel for the handle, the moment I touch the handle and it makes a noise, it’s head snaps up and it flies toward me. I almost scream but hold it in and jump away from the door as it lands.
Now what? It’s blocking my path. I step back more, and it hops forward slightly. Something in me makes me want to move closer to it, but from how Xander explained them, they are beasts, not kind and don’t understand the world as I do.
It moves forward again, and this time, I don’t step back. Call me crazy, but if I can’t get out of the room, and it’s not actively attacking me, maybe I shouldn’t try to run? Slowly, I lower myself until I’m kneeling.
“Please don’t talk, I swear if you speak, I will pass out.” My words are quiet, but I’m honest, this feels all kinds of wrong and if it speaks, I’m gone.
I swear I see humour in it’s expression. Suddenly, it flies past me and lands on the book again.
“Okay, a book. Great keep it.” I stand and get ready to walk to the door.
“Don’t.” The word has me pause.
“I said don’t speak!” I whisper–scream.
“I didn’t.”
Yes, it did, I can hear it.
“The book is for you.”
Successfully unlocked!
“Stop talking!” I can’t do this, I’m going crazy, I’m actually going crazy.
“I’m not speaking, no one else can hear me but you.”
“Then what is it? As you’re saying words and that means you’re speaking!”
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Speaking
It flies forward and lands on my shoulder, and my entire body freezes.
“You can communicate with me, take the book.”
It flies off and disappears. Just as it disappears, the door opens and I grab the book from the floor.
A maid walks in and pauses when she sees me. “I apologise. I didn’t realise the room was occupied. I shall come back later to clean it.”
My head shakes quickly. “No, it’s fine. Am I okay to take this book back to my room to read?” I hold it close, keeping the title covered as I’ve no idea what the book is.
“Of course,” she says quietly, and I walk past her and quickly to my room.
I’ve no idea what just happened. How did that Raven speak? Sure, it said it didn’t, but there were words; I heard them. How? I rush through the halls and go back to my room. Where did it come from? There were no open windows in the library, not that I could see.
Also, how did it know where I was and that I was looking for a book? Sitting on the bed, I lower the book and look at it.
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