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I grit my teeth as Nova snapped her fingers, her foyer and front door reappearing.

Along with it, the sound of several of my wolves trying to break into her house.

She glanced at me before shrugging slightly, "your wolves."

I stalked towards the door, throwing it open to find a panicked Mason, fist still raised and several of my wolves fighting off plants.

Giant, demonic looking plants.

I growled, sprinting into the front yard, Mase behind me, "Alpha what happened?!"

I ripped one of my wolves away from what looked to be a giant sunflower with teeth. "That's irrelevant right now Mase."

There was a quiet snap.

All the plants froze.

My gaze trailed up the cobblestones to see Noviana standing on her porch, cigarette stick in her hand as she blew out a ring of shimmering smoke. "Interesting. You lot must have stepped on some roots."

The few free wolves took a menacing step toward her.

Her big blue eyes narrowed, the midnight pools growing cold. "I can always tell my garden to resume. A few of you are trapped in toxins. I have interesting things to learn about tongues so you can either all continue being pests or you may come inside, get cured, and leave my property."

She raised the cigarette stick to her lips, inhaling softly, her breasts pushing against her dress.

Her gaze flicked to mine briefly before she walked back into her home.

The plants let my wolves go.

But several were too weak to stand on their own.

"Get them inside." I growled.

"Alpha," Mase warned, "that is risky."

"Now."

They did as ordered, the healthy taking the weight of the sick.

I held open the door, not even surprised when it disappeared behind all of us and we found ourselves in that same crystal ball room instead of the foyer.

She was sitting in a large chair, smoking still as she stared at the crystal ball, the mist swirling within, blurs if images I couldn't even begin to sort out. "Six sick?" She questioned lightly, "I must be in need of gardening. Too many venomous flowers will ruin the rest of the garden."

She gestured to an open doorway a few feet away, "through there, put them down."

"We don't-" Mase started.

"I don't care what you do or don't Mason. I have given you my word. So unless you desire these wolves to be spell fodder, that way please.

My wolves shuffled through the doorway.

Novianas hand skimmed my bare abdominals as I walked by her, "I will need the blue bottle from the top shelf."

I took it down for her, watching her willowy form stand and walk into the other room.

It was a morbid sort of hospital room. Metal table in the center and various jars of.... parts lining the walls.

Nova took another puff, the sweet smelling smoke surrounding us, "who is first?"

I sniffed the air slightly, it smelled of lavender, honey, and various other herbs, "the fuck are you smoking Noviana?"

"I already told you, you may call me Nova, alpha king."

I just cocked a brow at her.

"Starlight. Its a brand of majismoke." She hummed, "like cigarettes but for spirits.

" The woman offered me the long black cigarette stick, the end of it holding a glowing blue and silver cigarette.

"It is not a hallucinogen like some other smoked substances.

It rejuvenates the magic in ones body and chakras.

Otherwise it has the same effect of normal cigarettes.

" Her blonde head cocked to the side, "minus the sickness that can occur. "

I looked at it for a moment, the sweet smell burning my senses, "my wolves Nova."

She seemed amused, lips quirking up, "hold my smoke. We shall begin with that one." She pointed to a random wolf, patting the table, "up on the table."

She watched keenly as he was placed on the table, leaning over to inhale her majismoke.

Smiling a bit when strange symbols lit up before dimming when the wolf was settled, "perfect, in the event of your death you have granted me all ownership of your corpse. I thank you for your possible donation."

~~

Several shots, rubs, serums, and potions later all six of my sick wolves were regaining strength.

Nova took the long empty cigarette stick, and placed a purple and gold one on the end of it, lighting it. The end glowing pink as she inhaled.

Rather than silver the glittering smoke this time was green. "Now. About payment."

Everyone froze before turning to look at her.

I shook my head "it was your garden that did this."

"And they were trespassing. I used valuable ingredients to save trespassing wold be murders. Payment is necessary."

This fickle ass woman, "it cannot be that valuable."

She inhaled more of that sweet smelling shit, pointing a Rickson, a large wolf with long red hair, "he has deactivated zombie saliva in his system. It is a long pricey process of detoxifying zombie saliva. Obtaining their saliva in general is a difficult task."

"You put what in one of my pack."

"Deactivated zombie saliva. It is a required ingredient to counteract the poison of mutated hemlock root.

" She tapped the end of her Majismoke cigarette, the flakes of gold falling to the ground, "only two people in the entirety of this world know how to deactivate zombie saliva. Well... One and a 1/4 actually."

"And they would be you and..?"

"Grug." She shrugged, inhaling more smoke, "such a good little fool. Golems are not clever but Grug is very fond of pleasing me. so he learns what he can."

I gaped at her, "you and the idiot golem who speaks in the third person?"

"Yes. Now as far as payment goes normally I would charge you lot either a fair trade in organs and fluids or the monetary value of 500,000 gold."

Mason choked on air, "five hundred th-"

"You said normally." I cut in. "Whats your price today?"

A slow smile curled around the end if her cigarette stick, "our earlier agreement, Alpha king. And a child."

"You want one of us to give you a child?" I cocked a brow.

She shook her head, gesturing us to follow her back to the crystal ball room, "no." She placed her fingers on it as the blurs began to appear. Slowly they formed a picture.

It was Veronica. cooking something on the stove as she rubbed her swollen stomach.

Mase inhaled sharply. Nova gazed at the ball, "this one."

"Absolutely not." I snarled before Mason could even react, "pick another price Noviana."

"Nova." She commented offhandedly, removing her fingers and letting the blurs return before fading, "any other price?"

"Name it and its yours."

I couldn't do that to Mase and Ronny. He didn't want anything to do with hunting her in the first place.

"Very well." She murmured, "immunity from all werewolf hunts."

"What?"

Those midnight eyes peered up at me through thick black lashes, "a blood oath that no wolf shall ever attempt to kill I, Noviana Nivara so long as my spirit lives in this flesh.

" She tapped the gold ash from her cigarette again, "that or I take that cute little baby and use its parts for a very expensive fertility spell for a vampire duchess I know, consuming a special potion from a newborn wolf child can give them fertility for a short time. "

The group of wolves stared at her in shock.

Another little puff, "Its truly fascinating how many wolf parts can help a woman of nearly any species conceive."