Cane was on alert when he saw the sudden change in her expression. "What did you see?" He was clueless as to what Iris was going to say.
Iris bit her lips and stopped walking again. "The wisp."
"Wisp?" Cane instinctively glanced at his hands, thinking it appeared again, but there was nothing. It would ruin a lot of things if it appeared now under hundreds to thousands of watchful eyes. Deep down, he had this belief; as long as he was with her, the dark wisp would never appear. "What do you mean by the wisp?"
"I... I was... he was... he was touching me when I saw it..." Her tongue failed her when this disgusting feeling rushed back to her mind as she tried to recall that particular moment, when she revived the moment she wanted to forget the most.
If it was not for that weird thing and the feeling she felt upon seeing the wisp, she would have forced herself subconsciously to forget everything that happened to her, but that certain moment prevented her from doing so.
"What wisp did you see?" Seeing her reaction, Cane immediately knew which moment she was trying to talk about, thus he wanted her to focus on the wisp, instead of anything else. "You saw a wisp?"
Iris nodded. "The wisp was in the color of grey, dark grey..."
"It’s different from the wisp that came from me?"
"It’s different."
Cane’s jaw hardened. "Tell me more."
Iris tried to recollect her memories and only focus on the dark grey wisp. How the wisp took a wolf’s shape and how she felt when she saw the wisp. She felt this deep hatred and disgust as her instinct told her to kill it.
She didn’t know how to kill a smoke that was in the form of a wolf, but she did it instinctively.
"... it caused pain to him." Iris balled her fists to keep her emotions in check, until she could feel her nails embedding into her palms. "He was in pain."
Cane’s eyes dimmed slightly, as he watched how Iris was struggling to remember the details of that horrendous moment, but at the same time, he recalled Alpha Gill’s last moments. They tied him with silver chains to prevent him from shifting into his beast.
But, what was about the dark grey wisp that took the shape of a wolf? Was that... was that even possible?
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