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.

holding her own very well, only looking to me for help a couple of times. She took 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

Australian region speaks up next, "Miss Latmus, you claim your wolf says she is not at full power

embarrassed to say that shortly after she first woke up, I almost lost control and she came to the surface. We didn't shift

best of us, my

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 was allowing their essences to be reincarnated until the end of time. So, Iokaste, if your wolf Elexis is telling you that you have been connected to her since the beginning of both of your essences and you have been displaying powers beyond a typical werewolf, then I would say, yes, you're indeed a goddess. One of the fifty Menae. Daughter of the Moon Goddess. It is reasonable to say she selected Elexis to protect you. This gives credence to her claim that the two of you are warriors." The other Elders around the table nod and murmur in agreement. I look at Kas who doesn't seem surprised. She looks relieved. It's as if she was anticipating the answer and just waiting

you, gentlemen. If I may, I have a couple of questions?" Kas asks

of a goddess?" Philipe says, waving his hand welcomingly toward her, "Maybe even Randall

at the reference to the ones not wanting to speak to Kas before they found out she was a goddess. Kas continues when the laughter died

a relationship with Endymion, do you think that means his essence would 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 werewolf?"

he was Endymion," Felipe confirms, "but please don't despair, lokaste. We have no way of knowing if he was the first werewolf but he was turned at some point for him to 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 for all we know. What we may never be able to answer is how he ended up