Riley proceed to knock on Alpha Lucas's door.

"Alpha Lucas this is Alpha Riley." I hear footsteps rushing towards the wooden door.

"Please come in and take a seat."

He pointed towards a round table consist of 5 chairs. 2 seats have been filled with Luna Krystal and Beta Isaac.

I seated myself next to Luna Krystal and Riley sit beside me. Next to Riley is Beta Isaac.

Luna Krystal see that I'm still wearing the bracelet that she gifted to me and she smile while mouthing "looks good on you".

I mouthed back "thank you". Alpha Lucas started our meeting.

"Thank you for coming in so early. I have news and orders given by his majesty himself." He continued.

"We have still yet to confirm whether that lone rogue is a passerby or scouting your party. But we shouldn't take risk so under his majesty order all of your shall prolong you stay here in our pack until back up arrive."

"Fine by me." As much as I want to go home I can't force it when our situation is not safe. The looks in Riley face also show that he is missing his mate but he understand our current situation.

"To celebrate your visit we will have a barbecue party tonight."

Alpha Lucas both of our dejected face and to cheer us up by having a barbecue party. Finishing our talks about tonight party, Riley and Alpha Lucas is discussing some pack business and it continue past lunch time.

Only having coffee for breakfast make my stomach rumble and we immediately head to the pack's dining room to have our late lunch.

Luna Krystal mention our incident is not made publicly known and only her pack members knows it as to prevent any unwanted incidents.

Finishing our lunch me and Luna Krystal headed out to prepare for tonight even. She refuse to let me help but I insist.

I ask her to let me help so I can get rid myself from this restlessness inside of me.

The preparation almost finish as I see people starting up their grill and setting up bonfire.

I take a walk around the forest relieving myself from all of my worries. Without realising I've been wondering around for goddess know how long.

As the sky turn dark I quickly walk back towards the party that I'm pretty sure have started. I stop my step as I hear crunches of leaves behind me.

I take a look around and I see something moving from my peripheral vision. I immediately become alert and I borrowing Sierra's power I enhance my vision, hearing and smell.

But I didn't find anything wrong nor suspicious.

"It must be this lack of sleep. It started to eat me up slowly." I mention to myself.

When I'm sleep deprived or feel extremely tired I'm used to seeing weird things but I consider it normal.

I once read that sleep deprivation could decrease one's ability to perceive visual illusions. Hence, we are prone to hallucinating.

I hurriedly go back to the party before I can become more paranoid and make others worried. The smell of barbecue invade my nose as I come closer towards the pack house.

"Edith come sit down with us." I heard Krystal calling me. Both me and Krystal have decide to forget formalities and just call each other by names.

I quickly sit down next to here and she introduce me to her friends, most of them are female warriors. We quickly connect with each other as we enjoy our meal.

As the moon reach its highest peak, only a few members are left near the bonfire. Some decide to retire into their room and some are needed to fulfil their night patrol.

The bonfire continue to burn, radiating warm as if it's trying to comfort me. I seated myself in a log near it.

I look up towards the sky and I see a full moon shining bright above me. What used to be a dark and gloomy forest at night, turns to be a magical forest that came out straight from fairy tales.

I can see its path that was previously hidden by the cover of night.

I feel Krystal presence approaching me. She take a seat next to me and I see two cups of hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows.

"A penny for your thought?" She handed me one of those delicious looking hot chocolate.

"More like a hot chocolate?" Both of us laugh.

"I'm thinking about the full moon tonight."

"What about it?"

"There's something about its light. It always manage to calm me." I continue to gaze above.

"As the future heir to the throne, my assigned jobs are never ending. It's not only tiring but also stressful."

I stay silent for a few seconds, contemplating whether I should continue or stop.

"You don't have to tell me if it's too much."

She give me her reassuring smile, telling me that it's ok.

"No, it's fine. All of it are in the past anyway."

"As I was saying, it was very stressful for me and it drove me to the point where I had a mental breakdown."

Her eyes started to widen and Krystal is in a gasp as I continue to tell her my story.

"My mind just shut itself down, I was crying and gasping for air while clutching tightly to my head."

"All of my tutors did nothing but continued their screaming and that's the only thing that I could hear." I smile sadly and move my gaze to the hot chocolate in my hand as if it is the most interesting thing to look at.

"I couldn't take it anymore and I ran out my room heading towards the forest." Memories start to flow back into my head as I continue.

"I ran as fast and far as I could. Until I trip and fall to the ground. I feel cold, lonely and empty. All sort of negative feelings and thoughts rule over me."

"From then, I remember the moon shone brighter than ever and it lit the forest around me. In an instant, I felt warm and safe. Nothing matters anymore other than that feeling surrounding me."

I finish my story and I could see a proud look in Krystal eye.

"Thank you for sharing it with me. I wish we could meet each other earlier."

"I do too."

"I really wish that I could feel the warm feeling you receive when you gaze at the moon."

I feel that Krystal is about to tell me some important event in her life. I gave her a serious gaze and direct all of my attention towards her.

Krystal gaze move towards the bonfire and continue to stare at it with a blank face.

"I bet you can feel that I don't have a Luna like aura surrounding me."

I stay silent and letting her continue her story.

"I'm not Alpha Lucas true mate, his true mate got kidnapped by a rogue and was tortured to death."

My eyes start to soften but I try to keep my expression still.

"Nobody knows what information they want from her, but all of us bet it was about the waterfall. As for my mate, he died while trying to save Lucas's mate."

"He chased them out of our territory. He was the main vanguard and the fastest wolf in our pack. We couldn't catch up to him. He ran straight to the rogue's trap and got ambushed."

"He died taking several rogues with him. Afterwards, both me and Lucas swear to protect the waterfall with our lives."

"Both me and Lucas have this kind of mutual hatred for the rogues that killed our mate and so he decide to make me Luna."

"There was no romantic relationship between me and him but as time goes on he decide to make me his chosen mate and to mark me."

"Some of the pack members dislike the idea and they haven't yet accepted me as Luna even until now. While those who do accept me, decide to do it out of the respect for Lucas's decision."

She is just a few years older than me but she have gone through too much. Losing her mate and putting her life in danger to protect something so precious.

I'm not sure if I can walk in her shoes and still be the same strong person as I am today.

"I'm sorry that you have to go through all that." I feel that pity is the last thing that she would like to receive from me.

"You have done a great job so far Krystal, your mate must be so proud of you."

She give me her sad smile. "I promise I will ease your burden. Once I got back, I'll try to figure something out, while being discrete about it."

"I don't know who your mate is going to be but he will be one hell of a lucky guy to have a mate like you."

"Any guy should feel lucky if they have a mate like me." I replied jokingly.

We laugh and continue our talks before we decide to rest for the night.

Time skip a few days.

Everything have been peaceful for a couple of days, I continue my training with Riley and got a chance to train with Phantom Light's warriors. I could already feel some changes in my technique.

Today I decide to took a day off and let Sierra out for a run. But before that I'm going to have breakfast. As I walk down towards the kitchen, I hear a car approaching the pack house.

That sound seems to be quite familiar. So I head straight in front and I saw Riley, Krystal and Lucas already standing there.

"Who's coming over so early in the morning" I ask to myself.

A car stop in the entrance and I immediately notice what kind of car is it. It is a 2020 SSC Tuatara Hypercar.

"I bet he or she is an important guest for having Riley, Lucas and Krystal to greet them. But why did Riley have to be there and why isn't he telling me anything?"

Then a girl with similar feature as me come down from the car and claiming that she is the princess. Afterwards I saw Riley bowing his head towards her.