“Reminder for all the students, please go to the designated area of the bus before 8 in the morning, and to prepare ourselves for camping, please be sure that the things are ready to pick up and already packed.”
I read the email from the student councils. I'm here inside of my room while sitting at the chair beside my study table.
I leaned my back and stare at the ceiling for a while. All of a sudden, someone knocks on my door.
“Who are you?” I asked. I didn't move in my direction. My mind was wondering if I should go out for a walk, or stay here inside of my room.
“Yuan,” the man said behind the door. “Don't come in, I don't want to see you,” I stated.
I heard him laugh. He was forced to open the door.
His footsteps are echoing inside my room. He put something on the table.
“Here's the ring, in case dad will get it from you, you can give it back to me when we arrive at the camping site,” he suggested.
I massage the side of my head. Why can't he just control himself? I took a deep sigh and let it out slowly.
“I'm sorry if I cause you problems, I don't want it to happen, to be honest, I want a normal life, I'm not ready to be like this,” he said with a very low tone voice.
You can sense his sincerity through his actions. He was just looking at the ground. After a few seconds, he became silent.
He walked away and gently close the door. I pick up the ring and scanned every inch of its corner.
The stones and carves are remaining, and are still the same. What else the ring can do, except control the transformation?
Well, let's see what the ring can do. I search for a lace.
Luckily, I found one. I put the ring as the pendant of the lace and wear it. I took my phone and call Jihan.
“Hello? We are going to investigate or scan the whole place if possible, we should meet at the gate,” I commanded.
The person on the other line agrees with me. I went out of the room and locked my door.
I don't allow someone to come inside without my permission. It's my room, my privacy will not be invaded by someone easily.
When I reached our backyard, the Moonlight started to touch my skin. A weird sensation was starting to crawl in my whole body.
My nails from my feet and hands are starting to grow and deform into the feet of a wolf.
The other half of my body lost its balance. All of a sudden, half of my body was touching the ground.
I feel that my head was starting to form into the head of that creature. My vision became strong and my hearing became sharp.
The smell of everything became clearer. I looked at my feet, it became furry.
The nails are long. I run to the nearest water. I saw my face. It's different. I have fangs.
My ears were erect like a wild wolf in the forest. I don't like this form, but it's in our bloodline.
I run and go to the gate of our house. Not too far, I have seen my assistant standing in front of the gate.
The cold breeze was touching our fur. I nodded at him and we began to run away.
It's dark and all we can see on the road were tall trees. We are using the Moonlight as our light on the dark path.
The grass on the paths is long and firm. It can make a cut on your skin.
30 minutes have been passed before we reached the forest. I smell the ground just to ensure the scents are familiar to me.
If there's a danger, then I will tell it to Astrid as soon as possible. There's no sign of enemies.
I'm hoping that it will continue until the program is done. They just need to stay away from us.
If they want a peaceful life, then stop disturbing and putting their nose on our business.
The ring was still on my neck. It's blinking, but I don't when it started to blink. Maybe, it's just the reflection of the moon?
But it's different, the color of the blood was appearing. I walk again while smelling the ground, expecting to find something.
I dig something on the ground because I smell something unusual. My eyes widen when I saw the smelly thing.
It's a bone! Fresh bone! There's still some blood. It looks like something bit this bone and they brought it here.
I dig another hole on the ground and put this bone. I buried it again, so no one can see it.
Unless they will dig on the ground tomorrow. I saw Jihan was biting something on his mouth. It's a piece of cloth.
I walked in his direction. I'm trying to figure out who is the owner of this piece of cloth. Is there something going on?
All of a sudden, I felt some movements from the grasses. Someone is here! I gave a sign to Jihan to hide.
“It's early! We need to sleep for our team building for tomorrow!” Someone is complaining.
It's like a voice of a man. “Shh, lower your voice, we just need to set up the venue, after this, we can sleep,” the girl said.
Based on my vision, they are holding a flashlight. A man and a lady.
The man was also holding some woods and chalks. Maybe, it's for markings.
“Put those stick and buried it to the ground, so they will have a strong balance,” the girl commanded.
The man did what she said. She added some white lines.
“This line is for the end of our territory, please watch out for the other students, I know there are still some hard-headed who will not going to listen.”
The man nodded and remained silent. The man was wearing eyeglasses, therefore, his vision was blurry.
I heard that Jihan was moving. I glared at him. It's a warning, he needs to stop, so the people are not going to notice his movements.
His voice echoes in my mind. He wanted to eat, he saw the meat that they are holding. Because of his rumbling stomach, Jihan cannot control his hunger.
“Is this enough? It's obviously indicating that the students are not allowed to go outside the line, or go to the abandoned building,” the man asked.
The girl turned her head. “Oh, it's enough, we need to put some lights on our path, it's hard to guess the proper way if there's a mark, whatever they plan to do, the markers are always there.”
“I heard someone will join on our camping,” the man said. They're caught my attention.
“Yes, it's true! To be honest, I'm excited to know them!” the girl squeaked. I want to cover my ears but how?
“I got some news, they are men, maybe I should fix my make-up for tomorrow's event,” she said with a full volume of her voice.
My temper is fading sway. I need to calm down and escape from here. I need some open space without any humans or any objects.
“Do you know? When someone is starting to move and showing you some affection, it means they are attractive to you!” the girl added.
The man was wrinkled. “Who told you? It's a little bit false alarm or mixed signals!” the man exclaimed.
“Why do we need to talk about it? We talked about marking the territory or limiting the field, so we can monitor the 25 players,” the man added to his question.
“Is it prohibited?” the girl asked. “Yes! Because it's late, yet we are here marking and talking about nonsense while the sun is not showing up! I need to sleep! If you don't want to sleep, then me! I want to lay on the bed!” the man demanded.
I'm just remaining silent and sitting, just to force myself to be comfortable. The sharp grasses are poking my paws.
“Then sleep! Who told you that we don't sleep? It's just your first day of being a council, so don't complain about everything! Councils are councils! We need to monitor all the students of our school! If you think they can handle their life—” the girl cut her words.
“Yes, some of them can handle their life, but some of them are in need to listen for their problems and do our best just to make sure that they will be lifelong!” the man continued.
“What are you saying? It's not connected! You really need to sleep, you dumb!”
The boy became silent for a couple of times.
Minutes or hours have passed. They are gone.