Chosen By The Moon

Chapter 71

Dylan POV

These lessons with the dowager queen Luna were proving to be a lot tougher than I first thought. We were currently walking down a long hallway decorated with large portraits of people, the queen was currently going through the history of the lycanthrope, while I was trying my hardest to retain the information she gave me. The issue was, I was having an extremely difficult time retaining the information, I wouldn’t call her the best teacher in the world, because she wasn’t teaching me, she was just telling me, I tried to take notes as we walked but it was becoming increasingly difficult.

“Wait, can you please say that last thing again, your grace?” She stopped in her tracks and walked over to me, I quickly felt the slap of her ruler on my left hand yet again and my pen fell out of my grasp and hit the floor

because of it.

“Why should I even bother to continue when you clearly are not listening.” I was though, I was listening as best as I could, but she was speaking too fast and I missed the part about the royal family.

“I’m trying to listen, you’re just going too fast.” Another crack sounded and the sting in my knuckles became more prominent. She wasn’t hitting as hard as the king would, not by a long shot, but she was still causing a mild sting to set in. It wasn’t helping me at all to concentrate though.

I speak to you as if you are a simpleton?” I didn’t reply to her obvious rhetorical question, I just looked at my very roughly scribbled notes and prayed

receiving.

I wanted, within reason of course, but I wasn’t lucky enough. In fact I’d go as far as to say I’m one of the most unlucky people in existence.

past rulers, dating from the first wolf to ever shift. It is said that after pleading to the moon goddess, she chose to bless a small village after their homes were destroyed by drought and wild fire caused by the sun god, and thus created the first wolf pack in existence, that village leader was the one who requested her help, and was later crowned the first king of the lycanthrope…” The queen spoke without so much as turning around to look me in the eye. She simply continued telling me the story of the first ever pack. I wonder, if that is the case and the first ever ruler was actually turned from a human into a wolf, then perhaps the lycan kind could be

it was important that I learn this. Maybe I could plan or do something with the information, I could even do more research under the guise that I

person, they were destined to be with someone who who made them feel whole,

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humans,”

on down the corridor of past rulers, and stopped at a large portrait of the kings father, the previous

and finally turned to face me, I was caught off guard by her movements and had to take a step back quickly so I wouldn’t bump into the woman. “You are an arrogant, disobedient human who

a human queen Luna, unheard of, never before have we had a royal human, yet the moon goddess has chosen