Iris dreaded the thought that she was going to lose the people she loved. People, who were close to her. She lifted her head and watched the vast land, where she found thousand of cocoons with the color of white, under the bright light of the sun, the cocoons glimmered like the surface of the frozen lake.
This feeling made Iris swallowed so hard. She gritted her teeth because she was afraid of the worse. Would she have enough time to save them all? Would she be able to find Aliana, Ethan, Jace, Amee, Joel, Redmond and many more...
She felt like she was about to cry when Cane grabbed her hand.
"Iris. Iris." Cane had to call her name a few times before he could get to her and he got her attention. "How do you know the position of the spiderlings?" He was still holding Iris’s hand, while she looked at him with helplessness in her beautiful blue eyes. He didn’t like the sight of this, as if she lost her hope.
"Wh- what? What do you want to know?" Iris confused.
"Just explained to me," Cane said.
Iris didn’t know what he meant with that, but she complied and started to explain how she was able to pinpoint the spiderlings within the shifter’s body.
The spiderlings were infused by black magic and there were three to ten spiderlings inside one body, which determined how long one shifter could survive.
In Will’s case, there were around seven spiderlings, which was one of the reasons why he was in critical condition right now.
Iris was able to see the spiderlings because of the black magic within them, it almost felt like she saw the shard of black magic within Cane’s body when Aria tried to curse him in the past. It was the same like that.
"Do you mean like this black dot on his red skin?" Cezi asked suddenly.
"What red skin?" Hanna asked.
That was the same question that Cane had when Cezi said Will’s skin had turned red, but in his eyes, his warrior was as pale as snow. How he could say something strange?
"No, the color of his skin is red," Lou and Zale said, which only confused Hanna even more.
"No, can’t you see he is so pale," she retorted, which made Iris frowned. How could Hanna see something different from them.
"No, this is red. His skin is red," Cedric chimed in.
Hanna looked frustrated. She knew what she was seeing and she couldn’t understand why they saw it differently?
"Alpha, what color of Will’s skin?" Hanna looked at Cane because he was the only one, who had not yet said what he was seeing.
After that, all eyes were on the alpha and they were shocked when they heard his answer.
"His skin is pale."
"What?" Iris frowned so hard. "How can you say that? This is..."
"You and your protectors saw thing differently from us, Iris," Cane concluded, he cut her word and this was the only explanation that made sense for their current situation.
Even Zale, Lou and Cedric confirmed that they could see the black dot on Will’s body, around his chest, but they didn’t think much about it and probably they wouldn’t even notice the difference of the way they saw it if it was not for Cezi, who asked Cane and the alpha thought thing thoroughly and drew an amazing conclusion.
"But, I am not," Cezi said, reminded them that he was not one of Iris’s protectors.
This time, everyone looked at him and it was Lou, who jumped on him and ripped his clothes off. Cezi didn’t see it coming and didn’t have a chance to dodge, thus in the next second, his body was exposed and Lou turned him around to see his back.
"No! No way! I don’t want this!" Lou wailed, he looked extremely upset when he saw the birthmark on Cezi’s back. "This is not possible! This must be fake!"
Iris looked surprised, but Cane seemed to have expected this ever since he saw Cezi with the other Iris’s protectors.
Even Cezi himself didn’t expect this.
"I didn’t know I have a birthmark," Cezi said, he was sure that he didn’t have the birthmark on his back, but this was the same case like with Cedric. The two of them didn’t have it in the beginning, but right now their mark had been touched without them even knowing it.
However, Cane immediately controlled the situation, where he told them about his theory. If he was right, the other people could help Iris to cleanse the warriors from the spiderlings within their body, while Cane would take them out of the cocoon, with this, they could work four times faster.
But...
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