THIRD PERSON POV
A loud chuckle echoed across Claw's broken down mansion, as the living death took part in a late night orgy. Drinking the finest of wine curtsy of Luna queen Lunaria, the ruler of Wolftopia.
Claw sat in his seat, his pit black eyes fixated on two living death lovers, David and Carla. Who seemed so obsessed with themselves, their hands all over each other.
"Is everything to your liking my lord?" Beta Ivan doubted, upon noticing Claw's troubled expression.
Claw let out a small sigh, he and beta Ivan weren't that close so he saw absolutely no reason to have to explain what actually bothers him.
"Nothing really, I am a little puzzled by what is going on there," He decided to say anyway, as he pointed towards the two lifeless people.
"Oh that," Beta Ivan said with a small chuckle. "It's called love my lord. It appears the two of them yearn for each other."
His words were straight forward and simple, but instead they sent Claw's mind into a state of panic.
Living death were creatures whose humanity was long forgotten, they didn't have the luxury of physical connection or a beating heart, so how were they supposed to be attracted to each other.
"They don't have hearts, so how can they afford feelings?" Claw questioned, with a raised brow. His tone low and distant.
"Funny that you would mention that. My lord, a heart is just a blood pumping device. You don't need a heart to feel love, love is in the mind, you feel it," Beta Ivan announced, plaguing Claw's intrigues.
"What do you mean by you feel it?"
"Simple my lord, love is everywhere. It's in the food we eat, the company we keep, the people who truly see us, even in the air we breathe. It has the ability to make a strong man cry, or a child becoming strong to fight for what is theirs. Love transits space, time and life," He declared, his voice radiating with certainty, his eyes sparkling with excitement that it made Claw stomach turn.
Claw turned to him a puzzled frown on his face. "That makes absolutely no sense," He declared, in a bit to shorten the conversation.
"It would one day, when you meet the one," Beta Ivan said, and Claw burst into a fit of laughter.
"Cute how you think someone in their right senses would want me. I am a monster," Claw reminded, for as long as he could remember. He had been nothing more than a scare crow in the sight of every, and anybody who saw him. His own mother who should have been the only person who really cared for him, abandoned him in the woods when he was just a toddler because of his skin condition which made his skin look like the back of a mango tree.
He could still remembered the first time he showed himself to a girl who he saved in the woods, she was so scared she practically ran into a cliff just to escape him. There was no way he was going to find love, he had discovered that a long time ago. Besides that didn't bother him cause love was a shallow, and nonsense act that only lead to a ton of heartache and sleepless nights.
Beta Ivan burst out laughing. "I guess you are right. Not everyone would find love but at least everyone has the right to fall in love. And one day, when you meet her. You wouldn't help but fall for her," He declared with upmost certainty.
Claw didn't argue further cause it was obvious Ivan knew exactly what he was talking about. Plus, if he was indeed right, Claw would love nothing more than having the feeling of being in love.
"Oh! almost forgot," Beta Ivan announced, taking out a scroll from his jacket. "Message from the queen."
Claw's eyes scanned the scroll with interest, but he didn't bother to raise a finger, and grab it.
"Read it," He commanded nonchalantly.
Beta Ivan nodded understanding, before proceeding with his reading.
"Greetings lord Claw, my esteem partner in the battle for world domination. I have a special assignment for you, you are to attack Flavin in a week's time with a handful of your men. You are to cause havoc there and in exchange I will provide you with a vast fortune, and all you can eat baffle for your men. I will be sending some of my first year students over there, let your men eat to their heart's content. And feel free to communicate the details of our plan with beta Ivan. Your faithfull partner, Luna queen Lunaria," Beta Ivan concluded.
Claw smiled, a wave of excitement capturing him in its warm embrace. He loved violence, it was the only thing that made him feel alive even if it was for a few seconds, and if violence was what Luna queen Lunaria wanted, violence was what she was going to get.
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