Chapter 56: THE TRUTH ONLY.

As Sarah said this, Alrond remained calm and quiet. His eyes on the drinks that lay there on the table the three of them sat. Seeing his sudden silence, Sarah pushed on.

“What about Ethan? Doesn’t he know? I mean this isn’t ordinary is it?” She asked.

Alrond took a deep breath before replying, “he knows completely about this, even more so than I do.”

“Then why isn’t he fighting for my sister?” Frank asked.

Alrond shrugged, “he said he has everything under control and more things to figure out. He also left me in charge of Amara,” he explained.

Sarah found this odd, she shook her head, “where is he right now?”

“Travelled, he’ll be back in a week time I guess,” Alrond answered, his voice calm.

Sarah shook her head. She knew Amara and Ethan had kind of a fallout which was orchestrated by Ethan. That was why Amara was so bent to getting his attention back, much so that she turned to Sarah for help. This was indeed strange when Amara came back that night completely in love with another. Though it seemed like it was real at first, but as Amara fell deeper and deeper into the relationship, she started behaving weird. She cut all ties with her family and was obsessed with this Nathan. There were times she even acted like she was in a trance, repeating certain words over and over again. This troubled Sarah into believing that there was more to it, something sinister or supernatural.

“Have she involved in his sexually?” Alrond only asked. He was thinking that is this was the rogue immortal, then it is troublesome. Sometimes powers can be given by such a way. A truly absurd way, by having sex with that person, who also has to give consent.

Sarah immediately gave a disgusted look, “umm no, because that Nathan guy looks uninterested in that. Like he wants something else from her, but they’ve kissed a few times though,” Sarah shuddered in disgust as she said this.

“How do you know such details?” Frank asked his eyes bulging.

“Umm, you know very well that immediately after that celebration, I never let Amara go. Always following her to see what was wrong,” Sarah said.

“Amara must think you are freak,” Frank scoffed, folding his arms.

“See, that is why I got even more worried. The normal Amara would have locked me up because she loved so much privacy. She would have kicked me out every time I entered her room and sat shoulder to shoulder to her. But this one allowed all that. Almost like she was possessed,” Sarah explained.

Alrond who had asked a question a long while before, was now deep in thoughts. He thought Amara could not be possessed because of the seal Ethan put in her. It was that same reason that made the rogue immortal desperate. The rogue immortal had made known to them that he would be back for Amara one way or the other, meaning that Nathan could be him. Perhaps the name wasn’t a coincidence. He picked that name on purpose, the same name of Ethan’s right hand man who Ethan had killed that night many years ago. But Ethan was sure that he had no dark aura in him. The rogue immortal couldn’t have just entered anyone else. That would have required so much power, one that the rogue immortal needed so desperately. But he had made out something from Sarah’s compliant, that the Nathan, must be the rogue immortal. If Ethan couldn’t sense him for months, it meant that he had already used that last of his powers. He wasn’t strong again and could defeat him. And then again, this could be another immortal who is in love with Amara, but still, he couldn’t make any more conclusion. If it was the rogue immortal, they would have to act fast. The thought of this slipping past both he and Ethan’s noses was indeed embarrassing. Now that he was facing this rogue immortal, he could feel Ethan’s frustration.

As he thought about all this, Sarah noticed this and leaned closer to him.

“If you know you have something you know that we don’t, I need you to tell us right now Alrond,” Sarah said.

Alrond was still silent. Though he didn’t seem to figure out how Sarah and Frank could easily detect a weird change in Amara, when the almighty alpha, Ethan could not. He was somehow impressed with that.

“You saw through Nathan’s tricks, how?” he asked.

“Just like how you are so close to your brother Ethan. You know his every moves, you know what he thinks, how he does things and his drive. It is the same here for Amara, our sister. We were able to detect something else, something not real,” Amara replied.

“This has to do with the supernatural activities here in Silverwood right?” Frank asked and Alrond nodded. Alrond’s response only made Frank’s agitation to grow more and more. He was and always has been really interested in the shadows of Silverwood, so all these only excited him.

“How? How do we know how to deal with all these?” Sarah asked. “You need to tell us everything because without all these we won’t know what we are dealing with.”

Sarah knew that Alrond knew more to the story than either her or Frank. She wanted him to tell her every single thing.

However, Alrond sighed, he knew the only way he would have to work with Amara’s siblings to get the rogue immortal fast was to tell them half the truth. With Amara’s siblings with him who knew her better than him, then they would have the upper hand, but it wasn’t good for mortals to know anything about the supernatural in Silverwood. That was why people with proof of sightings were killed and there had being no evidence enough to make people believe.

“I might as well tell you now, erase your memories later,” Alrond said.

This statement made Sarah and Frank freeze. It was like they weren’t expecting such a sentence from him. Seeing as they said no more, Alrond assumed that it was their way of accepting his offer, he sighed and continued.

“Well Silverwood holds a lot of secrets and everything you’ve heard is true.”

The more he said, the more Sarah and Frank’s eyes widened. Frank’s was that of curiosity, Sarah was that of shock and fear, but still they said nothing.

“There are three categories of the supernatural here, the Wolves, the Witches and the Immortals. Each have their own residing side in Silverwood,” Alrond added.

With such new information smashed on their faces, none found the face to repeat. Frank secretly began audio recording, thinking that not only him deserved such blessings to his ear, but his podcast fans too. However, Sarah was still in shock, the hands she had on the table began to twitch slightly. Her eyes fixed in the grey ones in front of her.

“Which of those are you?” Frank asked, excitement a little bit visible in his voice.

“A wolf,” Alrond answered.

Sarah freaked out, “wolf? You are here to eat our flesh?”

Alrond laughed and shook his head, “we have no such interests now.”

Still hearing this, Sarah didn’t calm down. Frank however began to ask questions. Minutes ago it was Sarah asking the questions, now he was the one.

“These incidents so far, the Westside Silverwood’s Farrow street and here in Northside Silverwood’s 333 station. Those were caused by the supernatural side right?” Frank asked. Alrond hesitated for a while before nodding.

“I knew it!” Frank called. “Those stuffs are ritual like stuffs, especially the Westside Silverwood’s Farrow street, but I don’t seem to understand.”

“Understand what?” Alrond asked.

“You said you don’t meddle in human business anymore, why did such huge tragedy happen here in Silverwood?” Frank asked.

“And what has all these have to do with our sister, Amara?” Sarah also asked.

Frank had gotten so used to her silence while taking about this topic that he almost forgot Sarah was also there, so her question jerked him up a little.

Seeing their agitation, Alrond had no other choice. He was going to erase their memories anyway. So he took a deep breath and opened his mouth to answer.