Episode 2

The sun surprised us loving each other, being one, but happiness didn't last long for either of us.

"Meg was very sorry that our first time was this way, but it's also fair to say that I don't regret anything."

"It's okay, I love you too, Jason."

"This will not be an impediment for us, I promise you that your dignity will not be tarnished by what happened."

"I trust you more than anyone."

We give each other one last kiss before returning to the village where everything is already chaos, people running from one side to the other and fear is seen on their faces.

"What's happening."

"There is a sighting of the northern tribe invading our lands. They come armed and looking for trouble."

Before we can react, a scream immediately alerts us.

"THEY ARE HERE!"

We try to stay together, but with all the maddened crowd it is impossible, I release his hand and lose sight of him in a matter of seconds. I run to my house to understand what is happening.

"Mom."

"Thank the ancestors you're okay."

"Where's dad?"

"Megan, a war has begun and your father left with the first battalion to defend our borders."

"But why, how out of nowhere there is war when for so many years we had peace."

"That's what happens with peace, it gives you a false sense of security and when you least expect it you realize that it never really existed."

"What do we do now?"

"The men have to go to defend the border while we take care of things here. Take what you need to work in the fortress."

It's amazing to see how everything can change from one moment to another. Hours ago everyone was celebrating my engagement and now people are dying around me, my friends, comrades.

Upon arriving at the entrance I can see Freia with the other women working hard. - Finally the little princess decided to help.

"Now is not the time for that."

"Where the hell have you been Megan."

"It's not the time, I already said."

The world we knew, the peace we thought we had, faded little by little and in a month half of the pack was gone. We lost my father and many brave men who gave their lives to protect ours.

"We are in very bad shape, we have no supplies left and winter is just around the corner... If we continue like this it will be our extinction."

"They are just as bad as us, they have lost their best warriors, that's why everything has been quiet lately. They are surely preparing not to die frozen in the winter."

"What do we do then, it is an excellent opportunity to attack them."

"It would be suicide because, like them, we do not have enough resources for the females and the little ones to survive alone."

"Tell us Jason what comes next, you are the strongest we have left and although you have not had your ceremony it is more than clear that you will be the next leader of the pack."

"We are going to start stocking the vaults, getting enough food to survive. That will be the task of the women while the men will do rounds to keep those bastards at bay. We take care of you and you gather food."

I rise from the crowd. - Well I'm going to guide them and we will bring the necessary resources.

"Thank you Megan, you are an excellent hunter so you will be the leader."

It is true that I am the right one for this task, I am the daughter of a chief, of a strong alpha, so it is time to serve my clan as he did.

The days were not easier, with winter arriving the prey were not so easy to hunt and with the enemy troops still willing to fight it was very difficult to maintain order. Even so I did not give up, every morning I left and returned late at night with what I could. Rabbits, wild boars, deer. Everything was necessary and I tried my best to contribute to my clan.

Another month passed and the first snowflakes began to fall, at this rate in a few more weeks the river would freeze and the animals would migrate to another more distant region and we would have to survive with the little we had obtained.

"Jason how are you."

"Fine if that still exists."

"I've brought you something to eat."

"Leave it for the others, I'm not hungry."

"You have to eat if you want to keep fighting."

"And to think that by this date we would already be married, enjoying a different life. Damn bastards, do you know who was the one who provoked all this."

"No."

"His name is Nodal and he became leader of his clan at the age of 16, he is a damn sadistic sick in the head, ruthless and heartless."

"Why did he do it?"

"Because he wants more, he is insane and wants to unify the entire territory and thus become the only leader, he wants all the others to be under his shoes and thus step on us at will. But I will not allow it, Meg I am going to protect you as well as our entire clan."

"I know, I trust you more than anyone, Jason."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

I leave, leaving him alone with his thoughts, it is good to see that despite everything he is still the Jason that I know, the one who is sweet only with me and no one else.

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