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Chapter 763

Chapter 108 : Building a New Life

*Soren*

I walked through the streets of Pomeni pack and unlike the last time we were here, when everything was crumbled and in ruins, the packland had really turned around.

We’d only been there for a couple of weeks, but already, it had completely transformed.

The land was lush and vibrant and that gave the Norwind survivors hope. I could see it in their faces, how happy and excited they were to have a new home. One that wasn’t completely destroyed by war and floods.

Pomeni had been in rough shape the last time we were here but with just a few weeks of TLC, it was well on the mend, and so were the Norwind survivors.

I stood in the doorway of my temporary home. With the large group we had, it only took a few days to get some temporary houses constructed. That way, they could focus on restoring the land before building permanent homes.

From my doorway, I could see the streets of the packland where the other Norwind survivors moved about in the streets.

They’d cleared away the knee-high weeds and cut the fields of grass so they were less wild. We’d repaired the roads and pulled up any plants growing through the cracks in the sidewalks.

They weren’t perfect and there were still cracks in the street and sidewalks but it was a major improvement to what it had been like when we arrived.

People walked through the streets easily now, smiling and greeting each other. They’d settled in well.

There were some foundations being laid for more permanent houses but they were still in progress and weren’t ready to live in yet. We did have enough temporary housing for everyone to have shelter from the bad weather.

I left my house and walked through the streets, listening to snippets of conversation.

“I can’t wait to start a garden. There is so much space here and we can really make it our own.”

“The kids want to set up a swimming area in the river. We’ll have to find a shallow spot where the current isn’t too strong.”

“Miss Mila wants us all in the town square this afternoon…”

I noticed that none of them talked about life in Norwind. Wherever I caught conversations, they talked about what they wanted to do with the Pomeni territory and the future.

I didn’t blame them for wanting to leave their old life behind.

It must have been a nightmare to look back on what Chandler had done, how their own pack members had betrayed them, twice, and how they were left to starve or be picked off.

They weren’t horrible memories for me but even I didn’t like to think back on it.

There was so much ahead of them to look forward to, why would they want to hold onto the past?

Ben ran up to me, a big smile on his face, eyes wide.

“Mr. Soren, let’s go! The ritual is about to start. We can’t be late.”

He kept running, waving his hand to beckon me along.

I picked up my pace and followed Ben toward the center of town. The street we were on ended in a roundabout with a large grassy field in the middle. In the center of the field was a beautiful marble fountain with a statue at the center.

didn’t run anymore but the carving of the statue in the center was absolutely

was a pair of wolves dancing with each other in such a graceful, playful, intimate way.

of Norwind was gathered on the

Thomas and Payne, but I was tall enough to

out onto the lawn and my heart

barefoot, wearing nothing but a white, flowing gown that fluttered

shoulders, rippling in the breeze. It was almost

seemed that her witch power had been growing by the day, and the color of her hair

hands, she carried a clear vase filled with water. I knew it was pure

the purest

breath. I realized that

She was the most beautiful, radiant, holy creature I’d ever

grumbled, pleased at seeing

Mila as a red rose; pretty, bright, and full of thorns, preventing

she looked like a soft, blooming lotus; unique, enthralling, and

He handed

her palm, wincing and sucking in a sharp breath. She held her hand over the vase, squeezing a few drops of blood

None of what she did surprised me and I knew the importance

a low voice, words I didn’t understand, Mila walked in a circle around the fountain, pouring

sighed, like a weight had been lifted. The sun felt warmer and all

like the whole land was

our new home. May the Goddess bless Miss

in applause and carried on Lilian’s chant. Many of them even bowed to

the Goddess bless you,” they murmured to

I could tell she wasn’t sure what to say

empty vase

his head as he

create a protective border and asked the Moon Goddess to

inquisitive boy shifted his gaze

will create a maze for all those who enter the packland, hiding this land from enemies or those

what if a friend comes to

his head. “Then the path

“Really!?” the boy gushed.

really. Just wait

***

in the field with the fountain to follow Mila’s ritual. She hadn’t had a moment when she wasn’t surrounded by Norwind pack members, all praising her and gushing over

out but I

I didn’t want to

me. I could have watched her all night and felt nothing but joy and happiness for

people can rebound from their misery,

me and he

Thomas and nodded

but the land, too,”

land. The land recognized Mila as its rightful owner and woke up. I never understand that…”

entity of its own. It isn’t like that. But the land