Page 36 of Keeper of Death (Ouroboros Academy #1)
I didn’t get to lose my mind that I was about to meet an honest to god werewolf because I was losing my fucking mind that they expected me to use this new trick I just figured out minutes ago to get us out of this. I didn’t actually know how it worked or how to do it again.
This stunning brunette wearing yoga pants and a baggy shirt came out of hiding flanked by wolves. Werewolves were actually much larger than regular wolves and I was pretty sure they were trying to be threatening right now to protect the brunette.
“Are you the alpha?” Liam asked.
She just rolled her eyes.
“That’s not how wolf packs work. Even the guy who wrote that theory has asked people to stop using it. Packs are just families. It can be parents and kids or just found family. There’s no alpha or beta and they aren’t surrounding me because I’m an omega. My father is a general, and he trained some of these dickheads to pass the entrance exam to Ouroboros. He trained me from birth. They respect that.”
“So do I. And I actually have no idea what an omega is. I’m Sage.”
“Rona. And that plays in your favor. You’re the only reason I agreed to do this.”
“Um, I don’t know how it works or how to do it again.”
“I imagine it’s like shifting. I couldn’t tell you the mechanics or magic behind turning into a wolf. It just happens one day when we are kids and then we can do it after that. It’s a bitch to control at first and sometimes, you ruin your best friend’s ninth birthday, but you just need to let it happen. You might be able to see the future in everything or it might be in only situations. If that helps.”
One of the wolves whimpered and his ears drooped, so I was guessing whatever happened at that birthday party was him. It was kind of adorable, even though that wolf was massive and could rip my throat out.
“I’m not feeling what I was feeling anymore, so maybe I was wrong? It was my first time. Maybe I just wanted to feel something because I was the only one who hadn’t had anything happen yet?”
“Oh, no. That was real, love,” Liam said. “Khalid felt it and the animals confirmed it.”
“Which means they are either too far away for you to sense or they changed their mind. Which means one of your gifts is not seeing the future. It’s something else,” Khalid said.
“Rona told us. She sees the future in certain situations, but it’s not like prophecy and set in stone. Or it is prophecy, and it doesn’t work like that. Someone on the team you were sensing also has prophecy and changed course because you knew the plan.”
“No, that’s not how prophecy works,” Rona said. “Real prophecy isn’t getting lottery numbers or anything personally beneficial. It’s broader, like apocalypse stuff. Unless you’re getting vibes that something out there is the reason there were so many reincarnations found last year and this year and you’ll get the big visions when you figure out who you are.”
Lucian went on alert and jumped in front of me.
“I smell blood,” he hissed.
“Gross,” Liam said.
But he still filled in next to Lucian and Khalid to protect me. I turned my head as Rona started stripping her clothes off so she could shift and fight.
There were a lot of options for protection, including twelve fully trained werewolves, but I remembered the unease I felt at what was out there.
Whoever it was, it was dangerous. It might even be why so many of us got reincarnated.