5. A new friend

Makawee's standpoint

I sat at the top of a tree, watching the village children play. I was leaning on the tree, smiling at the innocent children. They didn't know anything, they were forced to grow up the way they did. If mother didn't stop me from being a cannibal, I wouldn't have been different. I had never taken any meat in my life, except fishes that is. I only ate fishes, fruits and vegetables, nothing more. I averted my eyes to the sky and looked at the clouds, the beautiful shapes it formed.

The clouds slowly turned black, thunder rumbling in it. I looked down at the children as they ran away, running for shelter. The rain suddenly poured down on me, making me jerk up. "Wake up, you bitch!" I opened my eyes flustered and confuse. I blinked at the tall woman shouting about this and that. A smaller woman was behind her, leaning on the bar door, observing me; observing my wounds.

"Who punched your eye?" She finally asked.

"Is that what you are bothered about?!" The tall woman shouted again.

"Yes, that is what I am bothered about. Alpha Kale gave a strict order that no one should touch her. Who punched you!"

"Doesn't she speak?" Another woman asked.

"No, she doesn't." The guy that punched me said, looking at me warningly.

"Well, it doesn't matter. If he finds out, she tried to commit suicide by stabbing her eyes." The tall woman said.

"This isn't where the alpha ordered that she be kept, he said to put her in the lower slave house, not the lowest slave cell!" I think I like this lady.

"She belongs here," the tall woman again. The small one defending me folded her arms under my breasts.

"One mind link, that is all it takes to get his ass down here. Are you going to challenge my authority, Keisha?" Oh, the tall woman is Keisha. Keisha bowed her head in respect, they all did. "Get her cleaned, changed into a better uniform and sent to the lowest slave house. Place her with Carina and Giselle and goddess so help me that if you disobey, I'll have you destroyed." She threatened.

"Yes, Becca."

"Jastun, carry her," Keisha grumbled. I kept quiet as I was packaged like a can of sardine out of the cell. Two maids bathe and put me in new clothes; a dress they called plain yellow and red maxi dress and flats. They were quite annoyed when I refused to let my hair fall for a little wash. I was taken to a house, poor but better than the cell. There were three beds in my room; one bolted to the wall above the opposite bed's wall, poorly made sheets but better than the cell. My bedsheet was black, insult to me. I threw myself on the bed and slept off, ignoring the pain in my eyes and drowning my thoughts in Kale.

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"Wakey wakey, sunshine!" Someone shouted. I groaned and opened my eyes, a terrible headache greeting me. I sighed and moaned with pain. "Here," the person said softly. "It would kill the headache faster. Are you feeling much pain? I sure will if I were you," I looked at her; short, small, cute, tan with hazel brown eyes and blonde hair. I smiled at her and took the drug from her. I took the glass of water from her and swallowed it. "My name is Carina, what's your name?" I didn't reply her. "Oh, I heard you don't talk. Anyways, it's time to work. You have been sleeping for three days and I have been covering up your chores so no one would bother you, good huh?" I nodded. "We are like maids here, the lowest rank of maids. The lowest ranks are humans and well, you."

"What do we do? We sweep, brush, dust, wax, polish, wash, do the animals stuffs, wash toilets, windows, doors, cars, feed animals and basically do everything. We don't wash the higher ranked wolves clothes, they believe we have germs on us and can infect them with our diseases. Their words not mine. You are not allowed to look or smell good, you'll get killed if that happens. When a wolf look at you, bow your head and don't fight when they talk, you'll get raped. Avoid the females in the house, especially the unmated ones and please, avoid the alpha at all course. Lucky for you, he hates you and he ordered that you be kept away from his sight."

Whoo, joy.

"What else? You get to bathe only when you start smelling like rotten flesh and we eat only once a day. But if you are a good and obedient maid, you'll get leftovers to fill up your other meals. Also, if you can attract one of the high ranked males and become his sex toy, he'll place a seal on you. Other females, males and higher shifter maids won't hurt or over bully you. I got a seal so I'm sort of safe, see?" She showed me her arm which had someone's name tattooed to it. "You want one, right?" She asked excitedly. I stared at her plainly. "You don't want one? Your loss. What else. Never complain or you'll get punished by starvation or given to the territory guards to enjoy for the night. Trust me, they fuck really hard. What else…" She tapped her chin. 'stay away from the Alpha's selected mate…" I arched a brow at her. The thought of Kale having a woman strangely made my chest hurt. "Alpha Kale don't want a mate or rather, he believes his mate isn't coming anytime soon and he's impatient. He wants his offspring now so he did the selective mate ritual and the present Luna was the only one capable of bearing him children."

'selected mate ritual?" I spoke out. She gasped.

"You talk! You really talk! And your voice is beautiful! I love it!"

'selective mate ritual?" I asked again, a strange churn in my stomach.

"Oh yes, a ritual where an alpha looks for any other female capable of bearing him children beside his mate. It's an insult to the moon goddess but they do it anyway. She's not the Luna yet until she can bear him children. She hasn't even been able to get a single miscarriage. I heard the alpha is planning to reject her soon and that is making her very worried and angry. She is out for any pretty female, both werewolves and humans."

"That's good for him," I murmured. I sniffed, holding my heart as the pain burnt into me. Unexplainable, unwanted but there. Why?

"Did you really save Riley and her children?"

"Who's Riley? The pregnant she-wolf with two sons?"

"You did save them! That was so stupid of you! You got your kind killed!"

"Yeah, I do know that, I so know that."

"And you don't hate them?"

"I don't have the strength to hate them, my people pushed them. The only person I hate however is Kale, for killing my mother."

"I hate him too, he pinned my sister to a pole but I don't have a choice, it's serve or die."

"Yeah, serve or die." I murmured.

"Just follow the rules and you'll be safe."

"My name is Makawee by the way, but you can call me Kawee. Nice to meet someone nice."

She giggled. "Nice to meet you too. Our other roommate, Giselle, is working. Come on, we're on kitchen duty today. Do you want to eat?"

"No, I don't need food. I don't have appetite for it. Where do I bathe?"

"Like I said, you only bathe when you start smelling like rotten flesh or decade feces." I remembered the pond that guy took me to. I would have to find it.

"Is there a river here?"

"Yes, but I don't go there. I am someone's doll so I bathe when he wants me and that is almost every day a week. Should I help you find the river?"

"Yes, please find it for me." I smiled. She pouted.

"I'll help you get your eyes treated, I promise."

"Thank you." I smiled. I changed into my uniform; black flare dress with grey hose. The sleeves and neckline was enough to choke me. I whined.

"This is a turtleneck flare dress, just above our knees and the perfect size." She helped me wear the dress and the shoes that looked like slippers. My hair was still in braids and tied up with my mother's magic hairband. With the bands, it looked like I had short hair when it was longer.

We went to work, did everything we were told. Most wolves and humans scowled at me, many intentionally hit me but I didn't retaliate. I met our other roommate, she was much more calmer and more compose. She had dark brownish red hair with sapphire eyes and ivory skin. And she was nice.

I was drying up the dishes when someone stomped in. "Where is she?! Where is she?!" Someone roared. I didn't bother looking. "That's her drying the dishes." I raised my head and turned it around to see who was yelling but immediately I turned, four claws scratched my face, one almost stabbing my other good eye. I jumped back with a scream, my second eye!

"I finally got the chance to kill one of your kind!" And then I was hurled across the kitchen and bashed against something. I felt a slight crack on my spine. I inhaled and kept the scream back.

She should kill me.

"What are you doing, Zoe! Alpha would kill you!" Someone shouted.

"Why?"

"Do you think he would let her live if he doesn't have plans for her? Let her be!" The person puffed. "Get her back to her room and no doctors, is that clear?"

"I think she hurt her spine," Carina said shakily.

"Are you questioning my order, bitch?"

"No, ma"am, I was only…"

"Shut up and get out, now!" I focused more on my pain, not wanting to feel so much, I urged myself to pass out.