Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“You try first, Chloe. If you cannot, then I will try alone before we try together.” The man responded to his sister as he too watched my Little Bunny’s face.
“Yes, brother.” Chloe nodded as she took off her heavy green cloak so she could set it aside.
I could see that Chloe’s clothes were just as crumpled by the thick fur that was underneath them. Her clothes were loose fitting but still affected by the natural way that she looked. Under her cloak I also saw that her clothes were covered in markings that shimmered in the light.
“The marks are spells.” Trevor answered the question that I hadn’t even gotten to ask him yet. “I had been surprised by them when I first saw them as well, and they explained to me that these spells keep them from seeing all of the spirits in the world unless they want to. If they had to be forced to see the ghosts all around us on a daily basis, it would most likely drive them insane.”
“Are there really that many ghosts in the world?” I was shocked by what he was saying.
“There are more than you would think. And the thing is, these are the people that have strong emotional attachments to people and things. They told me that most ghosts are those with regrets. Somehow, these ghosts find a crack in the barrier between the worlds and that allows them to come back.”
I was trying to process what Trevor had just told me. I never would have thought that there were that many ghosts around us on a daily basis.
“So, what happens when ghosts come back from that other side?” My curiosity just couldn’t be quelled right now.
“Well, according to Charlie and Chloe, most of them are harmless. There are just so many people who can’t bear to leave things behind. Things left unsaid or things like that. However, there are those with more intense emotions. People who lived violent lives that wanted to hide who and what they were. People who were capable of doing some truly bad things. Those people that were filled with so much anger and rage, or people that had severely broken hearts are the types that you don’t want to come back. Those ones tend to be the poltergeists that you hear about.”
“Holy fucking shit!” I did my best to keep the words at a whisper, but it was still really loud. “Poltergeists are real?”
“Yeah, that was my reaction as well.” Trevor laughed at me. “Now hush, they need to work.” He was trying his best not to laugh at me as I tried to get my thoughts in order. This was definitely not something that I was expecting.
“How do they know so much about ghosts and things like that? How did they get to know about this power of theirs?” I simply couldn’t stop asking questions.
“Apparently, those with the ability to speak to the dead or to lost souls, will be like a conduit to the underworld. There will be a hardwire that connects them and the souls will just seek them out. The ghosts will either talk to them directly. Or they might just use the connection to find other victims that are close to them. From what Charlie and Chloe told me, some of them will make sure that the ‘sensitive’ ones don’t become aware of them so that they could just keep terrorizing people.”
“Does that mean that everyone with the ability to speak to these souls could banish them or something?” I was wondering why they would otherwise ignore the ones that could see them.
“Not all of them, but the souls will never know whether their conduit can banish them or not. Therefore, it’s safer for the soul to not make themselves known.”
“I’m confused.” I looked at Trevor with my head tilted to the side. “Didn’t you say that the twins would be seeing these ghosts all the time if they didn’t wear their spelled clothes? How is that possible if the souls try not to make themselves known?”
“Ah, that is where the uniqueness of the twins comes into play again. Because they are what they are, so much more powerful than the average conduit, they can’t stop seeing the ghosts and souls unless they wear them. They used to scream every day from what the ghosts showed them until someone helped them to block it all out.”
“That had to be truly unbearable.” I shook my head as I looked back at the twins. “I could never imagine a life like that.”
I was looking at these two in a new light now. There was so much about them that I just didn’t understand. Right now, I was trying to figure out if I should feel sorry for them or be proud of them for having survived it all. Probably the latter of the two.
“It’s time to be quiet. I want to see them work. I want to know what it’s like when they talk to a ghost that is in a castle..” Trevor was in awe right now, and I really couldn’t blame him for it.
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I watched on in awe that seemed to be fully matched to Trevor’s. I was so happy and excited about the fact that they might be contacting my Little Bunny that I had stopped feeling nervous, scared, worried, or anything negative at all. After what I heard from Trevor, I had full confidence in them.
OK, well, I had gotten rid of all the negative emotions, but right now I was starting to wonder what was going on. As I watched on, Chloe started to pull her shirt to take it off over her head. Below the shirt she was wearing what looked like a one piece bathing suit in plain white.
After her shirt was removed, Chloe continued on to remove her shoes and pants. There were no buttons or zippers on her clothes, this was the moment that I realized that. I think that had to do with the fact that with her longer claws on her fingers, she would have a hard time with them.
While that thought distracted me, Chloe removed the rest of her clothes. She was now standing before me in that white bathing suit. The black fur that covered her body was literally all over her except for in the stomach and chest area. If the fur was there, it was so short that it didn’t show through the white stretchy fabric.
“U..uhm, Trevor, why did she take her clothes off?” I couldn’t stop the question from coming out.
“She needs to remove the spells. If she is wearing them, she can’t see the spirits at all.”
“Oh. Well, I guess that does make sense.”
I shut my mouth then and just started to watch them. I needed to make sure that I didn’t miss anything at all. This was too important.
Chloe without her cloak and standing at her full height was quite the image to behold. She was tall, thin, and strong. And for some reason, it looked like the tips of her black fur were glowing. But that had to just be a trick of the light, right?
Why the hell did I try to delude myself? I had spent so much time around my Little Bunny and her magic. Shouldn’t I be used to seeing odd things by now? Because it wasn’t just a trick of the light or my imagination. Chloe’s black fur really was glowing.
The light that was moving through Chloe’s fur made it look like the tips were quickly flashing in a rainbow of colors. Just the very tips of the fur, and not the same colors at the same time, so it was hard to notice that it wasn’t just the light glinting on it, but I could see it happening when she was standing still so I knew it was magic.
As I watched on, Chloe put her hand over my Little Bunny’s head and closed her eyes.
“I am establishing a connection with the Luna Queen. I need to connect with her to know what her soul looks like.” I hadn’t expected that she would need to do that, but this whole thing was new to me, so I just wasn’t going to say anything about it.
All of a sudden, there was a light that shot out from around Chloe. It didn’t come from her hand, her head, no one part of her body. It came from everywhere. It was like every single part of her was radiant.
The light wasn’t bright though. It was a dark purple that didn’t seem to be too harmful on the eyes at all. It was muted and dark in what I could only guess was a light representation of her fur. It was beautiful, though.
