“No, I don’t want to leave you.” I protested, but my brother had a tight grip on my hand, and I knew he would never let me have my way.
We heard them before we saw them, and they slowly emerged from the shadows. Six ferocious rogues close in on us, their canines long and extended and dripping with saliva as they anticipated their meal.
“Samuel run!” My dad yelled, and at the same time, the wolf pounced on us. But my brother was already dragging me away, and we ran through the forest, the tears streaming down my eyes uncontrollably.
A wolf was quickly gaining on us, and he jumped, getting ready to pounce, but my brother leaped forward, positioning himself between us.
And I opened my mouth and screamed. Then everything went black, and I crashed on the floor.
I could almost taste the heaviness in the air as I woke up. The sorrow hung in the air, refusing to leave, and I needed no more to tell me what had just happened.
“You kill them.” My brother’s voice was barely above a whisper, and I couldn’t say anything. He was right. “Your selfishness and greed had finally killed our parents. I hope you are happy now that they are dead, but don’t ever think of crossing my path again. You are dead to me.”
His words shattered me, leaving me in broken pieces, but I watched him go, unable to say anything.
And for the remaining year I lived there, I had learned to avoid him and everybody until I had become a ghost.
I wasn’t even allowed to attend my brother’s coronation.
For years, I was an outcast, and this continued until it was my eighteenth birthday, and it was time to shift. I sat there alone in the cold forest ground, waiting for the shift to happen. But when the morning came, it was clear that something was wrong with me.
That was the first time my brother came to my room after a long time. “I have received news that you didn’t shift yesterday, and it is very obvious that you are cursed, and I can’t allow such in my pack anymore.”
“I don’t understand. What do you mean?” I sat up on the bed, unable to believe my ears.
“You are banished!” He spat out, his words dripping in venom, and he stormed out of my room, but I heard his last whisper. “I hope you die.”
Before I could process his words, two warriors burst inside my room, and they bundled me out of the pack amidst the sneering of everyone.
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