Chapter 19 The Totem Of Divine
Chapter 19.
Alpha Vexhood's POV
The air in the room felt thick. It was a kind of heaviness that made breathing hard. The kind that made every sound stretch and echo as the walls too listened.
“We can't be looking like this, our pack is being swept off like a piece of wood on a meandering stream .” Lady Justina said. Her voice shook as though fear sat on her chest.
Her words dropped into the room like cold water.
“You are very right!” One of the elders opined. He shook his head repeatedly, as his grey hair brushed his shoulders looking at other elders, in despair.
It was at the elders room, a place I had set aside in my house for important meetings of this magnitude. Secretive, not the type that could be conducted in the palace. The walls were lined up with ancient carvings.
Ladies Sarah rose up on her feet, her chair scraping loudly, her eyes usually soft, were reddish like hot coal. Anger washed over her like waves. "What is wrong with you ungrateful wolves,” she spat. I heard her clearly from where I sat, " are you not being protected? Is the Eclipsia pendant not working? What about the ones given to you attached to your door post. Have they stopped working too? ”
She paused a bit searching for an answer but no one was there to give it to her.
Then lady Sarah pressed further. “Have you or any of your bloodline been struck by the gods?”
Lady Sarah, stood on her feet fuming, “ this is the same assertion I almost made when last we were here. I thanked my maker that I didn't cross the Alpha Vexhood path of anger, probably I would have met my maker.”
Lady Justina quickly countered, “We are not saying he had failed in protecting us from the wrought of the gods, are we going to be watching why pack members fall to their early death or the pack is completely ruined.”
Quiet there! You snake!” Alpha David countered, " if you don't know what to do, please play politics!”
He nodded his head from where he sat by re-emphasizing his statement."Yeah-play-fucking-politics!"
The room fell into silence for a while. The remaining elders seated too were shocked by the choice of alpha David words.
“Politics?” Lady Justina repeated, her voice breaking, “Is this all about politics?"
“What then is it about! Lady Justina.” He countered, " everything in life is about politics.”
His voice boomed so loudly a few elders flinched.
Then there was a long murmur. Some nodded. Some shook their heads. Some simply stared at the floor.
“I ask you if it is not about politics, why did you collect your own share, I mean ten thousand shekels that the elder Vexhood gave to each of us. You should have refused yours.”
“I…i…” She wanted to speak but the words stuck to her throat. A sign that hit where she hardly expected.
Before she could gather herself, Alpha David quickly countered pointing his fingers to her, “allow me to finish.”
Then he turned to the seated elders, this time, he had stood up on his feet. Who saw that he was driving home a point.
“ Elders kindly help me to ask her why she kept quiet when she knew that all the plans were all against Jax, against poor Mila and how both of them are to rule us? Which was perfectly in accordance with the will of the gods but against our own wishes because we have our preferred candidate for the throne?”
intense murmur resumed among the seated elders.
“I…it was because,” Lady Justina’s lips trembled, “I didn't have the choice, if I step aside and say I am not part of this I will still die. Wherever I run to Alpha Vexhood will find me.”
“Then keep quiet!” Alpha David growled, “and let elder Vexhood run the show, he is the last born of the living dead. He has not changed a bit, Lady Justina. “
“I never said I didn't trust him. Only said we can't open our eyes and allow evil to continue to befall the pack."
I have heard enough.
Bang! Bang!! Bang!!!
The sound tore through the room like thunder.
That was my totem. Three times I jammed it on the floor. I took a walk down the steps from the higher platform which linked to the inner room , a symbol of the chief priest of the stormfang pack and head of the elders forum.
All voices died instantly. The elders froze. Their eyes widened. Some cleared their throat. While others adjusted themselves on the seat. A sign that the chief priest is in the room. The room suddenly became small.
.
I looked into their faces, anger brewed through me, sparks of the gods erupted on my totem, coupled with a strange humming voice. A sign that I was angry. Sorry the gods and moon goddesses were angry.
I chanted. I wanted to compress the anger. To be lenient a bit. But I couldn't.
I jammed the totem again on the hard floor and a greenish spark erupted. It filled the room like hot smoke in the harmattan.
Everyone in the room moved back. They knew what it was. None of them is a stranger to it. I chanted to the goddess again. I know they will always hear me.
Then I turned slowly to lady Justina. She tried to rise from her seat. Her eyes with wide terror. She was glued to her seat. Trapped with invisible forces she couldn't fight.
Noo… ooo alpha Vexhood… please no. That was not what I meant…” her voice shook with terror.
My precious totem hummed louder. The green spark wrapped around it like a venomous snake.
Then I stretched my arm forward. My hand didn't shake. Trust me, It hardly shakes, whenever I want to do this. Divine justice was moving through me.
I pointed the totem at her. A flash of green light erupted from it.
There was a snap. Her head jerked violently. Snapped away from her body, and silence swallowed the room.
For a second no one moved. Then panic exploded. Chairs fell. Stool tumbled. Robes flew.
All of them fled out of the room with screams caught in their throat. Their feet hit ferociously like a predator chasing his prey for lunch.
Smoke coiled around me. I stood alone with the body of the betrayal at my feet.
I lifted the totem up and jammed it on the
floor many times. Each strikes echoing greenish sparks. No heavenly speaks.
“No one dared question the moon goddess!”