The night had almost fallen, and the world was going quiet, save for a strange sound emanating from the depths of Glen Eyrie. It was a chilling sound, like nails being raked down a chalk-board, yet duller, deeper. Somewhere in the dark, an owl turned its head towards the sound, but seeing what was creating it, too flight into the night on dulcet wings.
Hackles raised, claws extended, Zalen no longer looked like the gentle beast he normally did. Now, instead, he looked like a black demon, green eyes glinting in the moonlight as he drew back black lips over sharp white teeth. Continuously, monotonously, the Alpha dragged the talons of his hands down the trunk of a tree, peeling away long strips of bark as he did so. His ears were pinned back against his head, and his pupils pinpricks, and his breathing like the sound of a growling dragon.
How dare that bitch harm one of his pack mates, one of his females! Fayne had been struck down for no reason, despite the reason that the blonde woman was mad and evil. Luckily, the fae had sustained non-life threatening injuries, but those scars would forever mar her body. He would kill the bitch!
Finally, hands aching and covered in sap, Zalen dropped down from his six foot plus height onto all fours, the growling rumble continuing his chest. His eyes darted suddenly into the shadows; there had been a glint of light there. He raised his lips again and snarled, and there, again, a blinking sparkle. His ears shot forward for a moment, and then flattened against his head once more, Leave me be! He said in a rasping voice, one full of pain and anger. But the glinting like continued, beginning as the glow a shooting star might cast upon a snow field, but then grow into a spark, and then a fire, and finally, the translucent yet bright visage of his great-grandmother. She said nothing, but stood by, as her descendant sat trembling in his rage.
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