Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

"'So she had powers before her wolf woke up?" Elder Randall questions after Kas tells the Elders her story. He sounds suspicious of Kas's claims.

"Randall, Kas is sitting right here. Please address her directly. She doesn't have a rank right now, but she is Blood River's future Luna Regent," I scold the old man.

Randall gets a sour look on his face at being corrected and huffs at me.

There are fifteen werewolves from around the world on the Elder Council, making up the international governing body for all werewolf kind. They are former Alphas and Alpha Regents who have been elected to their council positions after they turned their packs over to their successors. There are many who believe I will be elected to the Council one day. Only time will tell.

The knowledge of the Elders is passed down from generation to generation. Each specializes in the history of their region. If anyone can give us answers about Kas, it will be them. We are in the third hour of this meeting and haven't gotten very far.

her time explaining everything that had happened. Some of the Elders have questions but are reluctant to speak directly to Kas because she was a slave at Silver Moon and she isn't officially Luna of Blood River yet. In their regions, Elders don't interact with werewolves who are not ranked members of a pack, let alone slaves. It's an archaic way of thinking. It's also very frustrating for the purposes of

speaks up next, "Miss Latmus, you claim your wolf says she

But she can't explain what that means. I'm embarrassed to say that shortly after she first woke up, I almost lost control

best of us, my dear," Oscar smiles reassuringly to

to a different human spirit every reincarnation. It's a deeper connection between the two, therefore not easy to separate the spirits from lifetime to lifetime. Miss Latmus, it sounds like it may be the case with you and Elexis. If you are a Goddess, her spirit may have been put in place to protect your spirit throughout its eternal journey... however many lifetimes that may end up being. In the modern world we think of gods and goddesses as immortal, in reality, it is just their essence that is immortal. Only the Gods we refer to as Titans are truly immortal." 2 Felipe, the Elder from the Mediterranean region chimes in, "What Roham is saying is, the Moon Goddess Selene is a titan, her lover Endymion was human. When Zeus allowed their children to be Goddesses, he

gentlemen. If I may, I have

the words of a goddess?" Philipe says, waving his hand welcomingly toward her, "Maybe even Randall and Karthik will speak more freely now, eh?”

reference to the ones not wanting to speak to Kas before they found out she was a

also get reincarnated so they can love each other forever? I mean, d-do you think the man who brought me to Silver Moon was really my father? Could he have been Endymion? He was killed because he was a rogue. That means he was a werewolf. Is it possible he was the first

be identified as a rogue. That means your father's essence will be reincarnated. He will live again to love the Moon Goddess just as he has in his other lives. He may have already been reincarnated