"I'm telling you Dean this is not a good idea, us up against the haven. We will lose, I suggest we let them free to do their own battling and keep our privacy and safety here." "Silence! We will fight not for their honor though, for ours. Our banishments were unfair and unruly. We deserve to be free just as much as any one of them."
"We shall rest up for a day feed ourselves and then finish breaking down the barrier. When we are out we will train through out the night and travel through the dark forests during the day." "The travel should only take three days if we keep at good pace and we shall have a final time to train. Then….We attack!" Hooting and hollering rang through the caves, waking Dominick and I up. "What do you suppose they are yelling about Dominick?" "More then likely their soon to be freedom."
The break wore off as the time did and we moved faster and faster to tear apart the barrier holding us in. Till finally after many exhausting hours we could see light from the moon shining in. Everyone got more incentive to move faster and faster until just a few boulders dropped down that we could step out and over. Goblins, vampires, wolves all began to pile out of the cave and down to the grassy hills below. Dominick and I followed out behind them, as the scarred man grabbed my hand. "Forgive me for this late introduction. I am Dean the Wolf and I am fully prepared to help get weapons and training up and going." "Wonderful if we all put the efforts in together it can be accomplished in good timing." I shook his hand. His hand also appeared to be quite scarred.
All over the fields partnerships were made to search for weapons and to train. Fires were set up, well some of the womanly creatures cooked foods and prepared fluids for the men and other women warriors. After hours of training and searching crowds hovered around the areas of food and drinks to relax.
I took my leave from Dominick and went in search of Dean. I found him munching on an apple infront of the creek bed alone. "Why do you choose to be away from everyone." Dean laughed, "it is not I who chooses to be away from everyone, it is everyone that chooses to be away from me." "But I don't understand, why is it they choose to be away from you?" "Most creatures and beings for take my scars as definitive markings of war, which is not the case. But still they stray away so as not to impose."
"If your scars are not from war then what are they from?" "It's a long story my dear, are you sure your all ears." I shrugged and nodded so he would continue on with his story. "My family, my wife and two sons were home preparing for supper one night well I was out hunting. I was hunting deer and what I found was a were wolf. Before I could let shots off it was on top of my body clawing and me and biting me. I was able to shoot after I was attacked and kill the beast but it lived on in me. I struggled to make my way through the forests to my home, sweating and bleeding and loosing focus of reality but I made it, sadly. As I entered the house my family rushed to my aid, my kids were running around getting hot water, alcohol and bandages well my wife dragged me to the couch. It all happened so fast, I transformed into a beast within just mere minutes. I attacked my wife and both of my boys, becoming one with myself. The boys bodies were too weak to withstand the pressure of the venom and they didn't make it. Soon after my wife and I buried them and began to travel to keep hidden from humans. The haven found us, they killed my wife, one of their sharp shooter elves. She was hunger and picked up its scent, when I had gotten to them both I was grabbed and locked up. After explaining my story they called me an abomination and sent me here."
"One of their kind changed you and that makes you the abomination, I do not understand where that would make any sense. Your loss must have been hard." "I know I shall see them again, but the least I could wish until then is to be close to them. To be home."
Silence passed over for quite a while, the two of us just sat there staring into thin air. I couldn't piece together the hurt Dean must be feeling, though I lost my parents I still couldn't imagine losing a husband or child. The hurt would be unbearable.
The silence eventually ended when we could hear more training in the fields and laughter and even joy from all who were no longer banished, and now free. I watched over the different crowds of creatures training, talking and laughing together. They did not seem harmful at all, sure they did in the cave that was their domain, protection would have been in order for anyone. What would compel the haven to banish them, it seem almost as if something was missing, all the reasons did not make sense.
"Christina, where are you?" I could hear Dominick hollering to me from amongst the crowds. I followed his scent to find him leaning against a tree on the other side of the field. "Sorry, I was talking with Dean, he kind of told me his life story. Its so sad Dominick, he lost his wife and kids to your haven. Why were they banished the pieces don't fit right, they don't even have logical reasons to have been banished."
"You don't understand Christina, once Ivy took over the haven rules, creatures everything changed no one could piece it together but no one would go up against Ivy either. The elders chose her for her strength and wisdom, anyone to oppose Ivy would be dealt with by her discretion."
Still thinking about all the information that had just been crammed into my head I needed to relax. It seemed everyone did because silence was all that could be heard from across the fields. But I couldn't rest I couldn't just think. Everything seemed to come as a distraction now, the winds blowing through the trees, the snaps and cracks of branches as animals moved about in the forest. Why couldn't I focus on what was going on, I couldn't keep the thoughts in my head.