Chapter 788

Chapter 133: Bonus Story–Happy Birthday, Mila-Part 1

*Mila*

***14 Years Later***

“Wait a second!” Ciana’s eyes grew wide open as she gasped, “So the real artifact of our pack is not the Feather of Justice?!”

“Correct,” I confirmed.

Ciana jumped down from a low branch of a cherry tree, in her arms were some freshly picked, luscious, red fruit. She dropped the large heart-shaped cherries on the picnic blanket and sat down next to me.

“I need a moment to process this,” she frowned, digesting the new knowledge as she popped a cherry in her mouth. “…Um…um, Mom, you have to pack those. They are so sweet! Especially since they’re hand-picked by your lovely daughter. They will remind you to miss me on your trip!”

Tomorrow was the anniversary for Soren and I. Not our wedding anniversary, but the first time we met. We usually went on a trip just the two of us, but before we were on our way, we always made sure to spend some time with Ciana in our vacation home at the edge of our packland.

“Thanks, honey. I will,” I smiled as Ciana shoved one cherry against my lips.

“Mom, but…why?”

“Huh?”

“The artifact,” she reminded me. Oh, right. She pulled me back on our topic. “Does it mean that our Alvar pack has no artifact at all, and we’ve been lying to our people?!”

“While we will never intentionally hurt others, the reality is there are people who always want more strength, wealth, influence, you name it. Driven by greed, those people aren’t afraid to harm others for their own benefit.”

“So, you and Dad decided to lie to the entire pack?”

“Ciana, think about this. What use is the artifact other than being taken out and shown to the pack during routine ceremonies?”

have much real use, but for a long time, I thought artifacts are there to protect the pack. The more powerful the artifact is, the more protection it would

more trouble it could bring to the pack. Therefore, it’s best for others to know that Alvar pack only has a low-threatening artifact—a feather that could tell whether one is lying or

of course, they would never try it out. As for honest people, if they try to use the feather, nothing would happen…Thus no one would really know the sacred artifact in the

to be

started coughing while bursting out into laughter. “Mom, that’s…that’s…so bizarre! But so funny. I bet it was Daddy’s idea.

laugh as well. “Your father and Thomas decided to do that because they know what makes a pack really powerful is never

real artifact for our pack?”

smiled and lifted my hand. On my left ring finger were my wedding band

ring?” Ciana was

mother’s

husband’s arms and gave

monkey girl,” he laughed and peeled Ciana off

didn’t forget about our conversation and turned to ask, “Daddy, Mom told me about the Feather

“It’s just called

need self-preservation,

me up!” Soren gently

drawn by it. “Wow, what a gorgeous fawn!”

ran after the baby deer, “Hey,

she wouldn’t return until she caught up

or bad, Ciana didn’t inherit my witch power, and I was glad she didn’t. Greater power most times was a burden, and looking at

do so. Luckily, with her naturally upbeat personality, it was rare to see her get truly angry at others. She was

wasn’t just people, it was

fawn to come to her, and it was eating the snacks she brought for it out of the palm of her hand. Not only that, a mixture of

with animals. I knew that as she grew up,

daughter, she was groomed to lead a pack, and thus she needed to understand there are lies and conspiracies, and she needed to be able to see through them and protect herself and her people from them. For example,

didn’t want to have to teach Ciana about the dark side of people, but I was a bit worried that my precious child

smile and waved at us before she went deeper into the

are you sighing?” Soren’s

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