Selene looked at her with encouragement. “Go ahead, I’ll do my best to help you with this issue.”
“It’s still about Aldrich,” Maggie said. When it came to that dream, she felt uneasy. She couldn’t discuss this dream with anyone, couldn’t confide her fears in Aldrich, couldn’t share it with her pack, and certainly couldn’t tell Alisa, who had recently changed her views on Aldrich. Alisa believed that most of her previous efforts would be in vain.
She had to deal with her bitterness and fear alone. Marvin might offer some advice and his thoughts, but each time she looked at him, she couldn’t say the words that would harm Aldrich’s image in his heart.
Yet, she couldn’t just ignore the dream. Her fear had been growing day by day, and the frequency of her nightmares had increased.
Now, she finally had a chance to find a reasonable explanation for this dream.
“I had a dream, but it wasn’t like a usual dream. It was elusive, with no specific cause and effect. I could only see some significant details, but I couldn’t see the main content. But in this dream, it was crystal clear, very short, like a moving picture. However, the content of the dream frightened me. In the dream, Aldrich’s wolf was out of control, turning into a truly bloodthirsty and cruel wolf.”
Selene pondered for a moment before answering, “Is it possible that this is just your stereotypical fear of the werewolves?”
“But you said my dreams can predict the future, so that dream should symbolize something in the future. I keep dreaming of the same scene over and over, with no changes. In the dream, Aldrich becomes an emotionless and irrational silver wolf. I keep calling his name, but no matter how I call him, whether I call him Aldrich or Silver Wolf, he doesn’t respond to me.”
“This can happen too,” Selene carefully recalled her past learning and understanding of precognition. “Precognition represents things that might happen but not necessarily will. More often, it’s about finding a more certain possibility or selecting an acceptable outcome from those possibilities. Like the result of this precognition, it might just be responding to something you’ve been wondering all along: will Aldrich lose control of his wolf again? So it’s telling you, perhaps he might.”
Maggie looked dazed. “What should I do?”
“It can be resolved. Shapeshifting isn’t an unsolvable state. You can control an irrational werewolf with medication, or deepen the bond between the wolf and its master through regular training. Of course, you can also suppress your own wolf. However, most werewolves won’t choose the last option, as it’s cruel, akin to eliminating their second self in the human world. This will make a werewolf entirely different from who they used to be, but it’s also one of the solutions.”
“So, I can talk to him and let him know that he still has a tendency to lose control of his wolf. Is that right?”
“Yes.”
Maggie breathed a sigh of relief and gave a relaxed smile. “If my mother hadn’t told me all this, Aldrich and I might have taken many detours.”
Seeing her daughter’s relief and her heart slowly releasing the tension, Selene’s heart melted once again into a puddle of warmth. How much she wanted to watch her daughter’s life from now on, to be there by her side when she couldn’t figure things out, to lie in her arms. She wished that the man could see their daughter, how beautiful and wise she had become.
But she didn’t have much time left. Her body was gradually becoming transparent, and both Maggie and she knew it was a sign of her divine power dissipating.
Maggie’s eyes welled up with tears again. “Are you leaving now? I really wish you could see me get married, see me become a better person than I am now, and meet my future children and my friends.”
“It’s okay; you will never lose me as long as you remember that, whether your mother is a deity, a werewolf, or a regular human, she loves you forever.”
Her words floated into Maggie’s ears bit by bit, and she herself began to dissipate like the first batch of bubbles on the sea when exposed to sunlight.
“In the future, you might encounter difficulties that seem insurmountable, things that make you feel hopeless, but don’t be afraid. You have people who love you by your side, and many difficulties don’t have to be faced alone.”
Through teary eyes, Maggie looked at her for the last time. “You really can’t stay with me?”
“Silly child,” Selene smiled, her form fading into the white mist, leaving only a shadow in Maggie’s heart. “I have always been with you. I will appear whenever you want me.”
Maggie wanted to ask more, like if there was a deal between Selene and Aldrich that she didn’t know about, or if she could really walk to the end with Aldrich. But once again, in the thick fog, she was left alone, and she closed her eyes in disappointment.
She realized it was time to return to the real world and be by Aldrich’s side.
Elizabeth and Thomas had been taking turns to watch over Maggie recently. In principle, the Blue Moon Pack wasn’t short on manpower to the point where only the two of them were left, but Thomas was the person Aldrich trusted the most, and Elizabeth was the person Maggie trusted the most. Only when they both watched over Maggie, could Aldrich free himself to deal with the affairs of the Elders.
But even with only two people, it was still very challenging. Especially for Elizabeth, she often found herself sitting on a chair by Maggie’s bed, drowsy and half-asleep. Every now and then, she’d open her eyes to check on Maggie’s condition, making sure it hadn’t deteriorated, before supporting her head and dozing off again.
Thomas asked her if they should find someone else to take over for her, but Elizabeth declined. During this special period, she couldn’t leave Luna in any uncertain danger.
The first thing Maggie saw when she woke up was Elizabeth, who was slowly nodding off.
“Beth?” she softly called out to her, “Are you asleep?”
Elizabeth jerked awake from a half-sleep, instantly snapped back to reality. “Luna!”
She was on the verge of tears. The days and nights of continuous vigil had been exhausting, and even worse, Luna seemed to show no sign of waking up, leaving Alpha helpless. They could only come, ask the doctors about her condition, and then leave disappointed. These days, they were like guards stationed along an endless river, waiting for the day when a bridge would appear upstream. As soon as that bridge appeared, they could return to land. However, the river remained silent, and ahead, there was only a constantly flowing stream of water and a thick fog. The doctors were also at a loss. They said Luna’s slumber wasn’t due to any illness, and if it wasn’t an illness, there was no point in treatment.
“For now, there’s no other way, we just have to wait for her to wake up naturally,” was the conclusion they reached.
But who knew when “naturally waking up” would happen? Tomorrow, next Monday, five years from now, ten years from now?
Fortunately, she woke up. Everyone’s worried hearts finally found relief.