The Love of a Lycan

"Don't you think we need to bring more guards?" Lyrus whispered to Lilac when they approached the people who gathered in the town square, asking for the king to show up and explain to them about their missing family members himself.

"If we bring more guards than this, they will think that we wanted to surround them and when they realized that they were being outnumbered they will get angrier and it will become harder to control them," Lilac replied in low voice as they couldn't even slow down as they were walking forward through the crowd now.

"It is not a good idea to let a woman," Sebastian halted to throw Lilac a disdainful look, "a guardian angel to talk with these people."

The corners of Lilac's lips moved upward when she patted Sebastian's back as if she was praising him. "Don't worry Sebastian, if something happened and these people got out of control, I will save you," Lilac insulted him with a light tone.

Lyrus, who heard that, pretended he was looking at some other direction, to hide his smile. This girl indeed had a sharp tongue along with a complementary smart mind. What a good combination…

Then he remembered Raine, mate of Torak Donovan. The moon goddess indeed found a suitable soul to match with each Donovan. If Lilac was as meek and timid as Raine, she wouldn't survive a day with Jedrek's bad temperament or silence all the generals who went against her.

Lyrus was curious, what kind of mate Kace was blessed with…

Lilac walked ahead before she could hear Sebastian's angry response and stood at the center of the people.

Ever since Lilac walked with the well known second general of Jedrek and the royal Beta, every single pair of eyes were focused on her. They were looking at her with curiosity while whispering to the people beside them.

Lilac didn't need an exceptional hearing ability like shifters to know what they were talking about. Those people were curious about her identity. The other day, she roamed around with the king and just a few days ago, she was followed by general Theo and now, she came with the king's beta and the second general.

Who is this young girl?

Lilac stood right in the center of the people and viewed the vistas of this beautiful city. The bright light from the sun highlighted the colorful trees, and the buildings, were casting long shadows which were now looming over her frame, a sight that Lilac would never grow tired of admiring.

However, in contrast, Lilac had to face the people who were asking for justice for their missing family members.

"We want an explanation from the king! Who are you?!" A tall, blond-haired man suddenly shouted at Lilac from somewhere in the crowd and was soon followed by ripples of the same kinds of questions from the rest of the people.

"First, listen what I have to say!" Lilac tried to shout as loud as she could, but her voice was easily drowned among the crowds' brawls.

"No one will listen to you,�� Sebastian sneered, but Lilac just glanced at him and ignored him completely.

"Do you want me to silence those people?" Lyrus offered and this goes without saying that this offer entailed brute force. That was the only way that would work on shifters, they would only bow to someone more powerful than them.

"No need." Lilac turned down the Beta's offer and crossed her arms. "Let's wait."

And, what Lilac meant by 'wait' was that they were literally going to wait for the crowd to stop asking, more precisely shouting their questions.

Lilac stood there unaffected, with Sebastian on her left side and Lyrus on her right side while the guards were standing closely, ready to take action if it came to violence.

Lilac was staring at the people around her, looking at them one by one in their eyes, as though she was going to remember each and every face she saw at this very moment.

Five minutes have passed, but those people where still shouting at Lilac.

"What are you going to do?!" Sebastian was running out of patience.

"I said, we will wait." Lilac enunciated her words firmly.

The second general groaned and felt stupid for having to follow this girl's order, he looked at Lyrus and asked him through his eyes, whether he knew what Lilac was up to, but the Beta too didn't have any idea. He was also feeling lost.

But, after another ten minutes, the commotion finally died down, as they realized that Lilac didn't even try to talk to them, she just stood there and stared at them until it became awkward, as though they were shouting at a lifeless wall, which wouldn't give any response to whatever they asked.

Lilac finally opened mouth when the shrill screams reduced to mere murmurs and one man stepped forward to ask her in a loud voice.

"Why aren't you talking?!" the man shouted at her.

"If we are all going to talk, then who will listen? I have heard you and now it's my turn to talk." Lilac looked at them and the murmurs hushed down. "I want you to choose three people that you can trust, as representatives for all of you. You can give your list of questions to these people and they will meet with the king two days from now. The king will answer your questions in the castle."

There were no longer any murmurs among the people, but they started to look at each other, trying to decide who would represent them.

"I hope to see your representatives two days from now." After saying that, Lilac walked away.

"That's it?" Sebastian asked in disbelief.

"That's it." Lilac gave the general a triumphant smile as she walked past the people, who was now distracted with the order Lilac gave earlier.

Even though Lilac's method seemed very simple, it managed to calm the public. At least in avoiding a far greater riot.

"If you are here to say just those few words, you shouldn't have come here in the first place, you can get one of the guards to deliver your message." Sebastian rolled his eyes in annoyance. "You're just wasting my time."

Lilac stopped walking when she heard that. "Wasting your time? I don't even remember me asking you to come with me. It was Jedrek who told you to tag along for my trip to this city. And, just like those people, it is not about the message or the order, it is about WHO delivered it." Lilac smirked contemptuously at him.

"I think you should start using your brain over your brawn and watch what you say. Next time I will not be very kind when you insult me in front of other people." Lilac gave a final warning, before she raised her hand to signal the guards that they should continue on their way to the castle.

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"We need to talk somewhere," Lana hissed at Raphael as she looked around warily. The conversation between them wouldn't be something for humans to hear.

However, the only thing that Raphael had in his mind was the fact that Lana didn't let go of his hand when she led the way toward a more private place, away from the staring eyes of the people in the village.

"Right, we have a lot of things to talk about," Raphael agreed. He let Lana take him, wherever she wanted.