LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 5: 5- Saoirse is missing him
"Are you sure that there will be a place for her here?" A man with black hair, and black and green armor asked. Then he handed a backpack of survival gear to another man who wore grey armor.
They both had wolf ears which was required nowadays in every interaction at the gates of the werewolf settlements.
No one that was unregistered was allowed inside but the man had just finished registering the girl that he claimed to have found in the forest, who he had found was a werewolf, but she didn't remember who she was.
She had white hair with some bits of blue near the ends and her wolf ears were white.
She looked shyly at the ground and they asked her as many questions as she knew the answer to, which wasn't much except that she told them the rehearsed story the man had given her. Her name was Saoirse and she had woken up on the ground in a forest clearing near a cave.
It was the mountain that led to the gates of Nefilheim, which was known to be haunted. She didn't know how long she had been there, but it must not have been very long because she appeared healthy and had no wounds.
The man who claimed he was a scout from another pack turned around and left as soon as they handed her an identification card.
Then they led her to a woman who took her bag from her. And handed her a white stretchy uniform.
"We will hold onto this for now." The woman said. "Go ahead and put this on, it adjusts to your wolf form so you can transform easily. Once you finish changing, we will have you go to the military emcampment and you will begin training. We are in the middle of a war, so we can't have you dying on us."
She took the outfit and went to the bathroom to change. As she pulled her own shirt off, she smelled it and a sudden sadness came over her. The smell made her feel longing as if she was missing a part of herself.
The man had not found her in the forest. She had actually first come to consciousness in a dark room inside of a castle that had many marble boxes inside it. One was black and it had been shattered angrily at a wall and never been cleaned up.
She wondered who could have had the strength to do such a thing.
The man who had brought her to the werewolf encampment had first woken her up had proceeded to open a small white box full of bones. He dumped them out on the floor and drew a design on the floor which looked like a circle with stars and strange letters on it. He put a few candles and some sand at each corner and then placed cinnamon and white flowers in the circle at certain points of the stars.
She watched him make this artwork methodically and didn't say anything. Then he laid the bones in the position they belonged, forming a complete skeleton of a child. It was missing the head.
This was no problem for him. He told her that the sand was actually bone powder of the skull that he had kept in a bag. He explained that the owner of this castle could never put her back together without his permission.
The whole thing confused her, but she didn't know what was going on, and she supposed that this must be a regular thing that people did. So she just nodded.
He repeated a few words in another language and then a light emitted from the bones and flesh began to form on it. She felt it drawing her and when it finished, she was the owner of this body he had made. She moved her fingers with awe. This body was heavy. It was larger now and she was an adult like her spirit had been.
The design the man had made had vanished. He whispered something and the two of them vanished and appeared again in the forest outside the settlement that she was now inside of.
She came out of the bathroom and the woman took her clothes from her that she had removed. They had significant blood stains and tears so the woman said she would dispose of them.
She nodded. "Thank you." Then she hesitated. "Actually, can I keep the sweater?" She asked taking back the bloody woolen piece of clothing.
The woman looked strangely at her.
"It's because it smells familiar." She said. I can't explain it, but it smells like somebody that I know."
The woman nodded noticing the blood, which was in fact hard to miss, "perhaps it is someone you've lost." She said.
Saoirse nodded. "I think so."
The woman brought her to a room that smelled like meat and told her that the people would be eating now, and then she led her to a space in the line next to people that were in her training group. She left her there and now Saoirse was alone once again.