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Chapter 8
"Marlo- wolf of the Watch! You didn't come to me first?" Mirlo asked, greeting his brother with a nudge.
"Maya, Silverside, etc., meet my brother, Mirlo," Marlo explained.
"Mirlo," Kia greeted.
"Confusing... Just change the 'I' to an 'A' and you have Marlo!" Maya said
"Pretty much," Kia agreed.
Maya nodded. "They must be fraternal twins," Maya whispered.
"Yeah," Kia whispered back.
Maya ended up chuckling.
Mirlo gave a heavy sigh; they were so much alike, all but a small difference in fur color and Marlo's twisted paw. "Now dad must respect you," he laughed. "We didn't think it would turn out that way."
Maya frowned. "Your father didn't...respect you?" asked Maya as she eyed Marlo and Mirlo.
"I'm a malcadh," Marlo sighed.
"It was his choice...but he said no." said Mirlo.
"Idiot..." Maya muttered under her breath, she was taking this out on Marlo's dad. Why would their own father hate them? "You both were the son of a Chieftain! You two deserved to be a Chieftain." growled Maya.
"Of course he does!" Mirlo cried.
"But this doesn't, evidently," said Marlo, lifting his paw that was malformed. "It was my choice... I couldn't standing being a part of a pack that neglects someone just because of something that happened to them that they did not intend."
Silverside shook his head due to the most strangest idea: Could this be the same Shadow from last year? he had thought "Anyway Mirlo, nice to meet you," Silverside said. Silverside also had seen a glimpse of Shadow's father, not the not as bright still pondering about Shadow.
Mirlo noticed Silverside's eyeing and thoughts, and began asking questions. "What's wrong?" Mirlo began. "What'd do you see?"
Marlo turned to his brother. "Mirlo, how about you go back home?" he gave his little brother a shove.
"May we go have a chat with Shadow?" Silverside asked. "I would like to see him to tell if this is the Shadow that helped me out last year."
"It's most likely that our living friend isn't the Shadow you think he is. This is because he would have told us about you," announced Maya after a long brooding. "It's obvious that you may know my former friend Shadow, who was killed by rabies. Our friend Shadow just lives with the disease." she explained.
Marlo whimpered; he felt so sad for Maya and her friend Shadow. He knew not why he card so much for Maya, but he did, unlike he did for any other she-wolf.
Maya glanced at Marlo. "I-...It really doesn't get so depressing once you live with it your whole life." Maya insured Marlo, she didn't want to make him whine. She never did...but it was strange being around Marlo than other wolves.
"Someone say my name?" Shadow interrupted, having heard his name repeated multiple times. "Who are you again?"
"This is Silverside," Marlo introduced. "He wants to see the Fengo." He stepped closer to Shadow, lowering his voice. "Are you alright? You seemed sick when I went to see you."
"What's this all about?" Maya asked the boys, having not been there when Marlo had met with Shadow.
"What?" Marlo asked, looking up.
"Not the Shadow I expected" Silverside muttered.
Maya frowned. "Hmm...I'm a bit convinced that you aren't telling me something," Maya grumbled.
"Who?" Marlo asked. "I'm lost."
"He's usually lost," mumbled Mirlo.
"I thought I told you to leave!"
Maya just growled, a scowl on her face. Snake was right...these...these imbeciles don't even acknowledge me! Maya thought. "I can't believe he was right!" Maya snarled aloud, she had then just started barging off, making her way on the trail to the Watch.
Meanwhile...
"Hey! Audren, I think it's time for me to go. Wish me luck?" Jay asked, "Sure. Go to the Watch and get your business done."
"Master Snake, what do I do?" said Audren. She looked back at her master in the shadows and he growled.
"Get Maya and destroy her. Then, go after her petty little friends. We could use a former moonblinked wolf on our team, and the brunette too." Snake commanded, Audren nodded. I'll go with Jay then...but in the shadows.
Mirlo shoved his brother. "Look what you did; you made her mad!"
"Me?" Marlo barked.
"Maya is my best friend- you think I'd be the one to make her mad? Even if I did, you think I meant to? I told you to leave." Marlo snapped at his brother angrily, running after Maya. "Maya, where are you going?" he called.
"What clan are you from Maya?" asked Silverside remembering what clan Shadow was from but he remembered that Shadow's fathers name was Lord Adair.
"Away from everyone!" said Maya, her angered tone was harsh and brutal. She was going to the Watch, with or without friends.
Just noticing that Maya was going away mad, angered he ran as fast as he could towards her asking "What clan were you in,"
"MacDuncan," Mirlo said to Silverside. "Marlo said ever so many things about her when he first came to me after meeting her." He snickered, leaning in close to Silverside. "I think they're lovers."
"I HEARD THAT!" Marlo yelled from a long way off. "Maya, can you wait?"
Maya paused. Her face heating up from beneath her fur, she was blushing. "We weren't lovers! We were just-uh..." Maya hesitated and stopped walking, it was so embarrassing for hearing it from Mirlo.
"Maya? Do you know what Shadow's fathers name was?" yelled Silverside.
"GAH! You don't need to yell my brains out! His name was Lord Adair the First! But I really don't want to get in my past right now," Maya said, her voice raised so Silverside would know how it feels when somebody yells right in your ears.
Marlo set a paw onto Maya's paw. "Maya, please calm down. I'm trying to quite you- calm you- comfort you. Tell me what's the matter; why did you run?"
Silverside whined an apology and barked out in surprise, "He helped me; LORD ADAIR'S SON HELPED ME!"
Maya looked at Marlo and then to Silverside. "I just overreacted...sorry, guess you don't like wolves like that," Maya said sharply yet calm, but then she faced Silverside and spoke to him. "Shadow was a good wolf. He fed those who were weak and thin. I could see him helping you out a lot," she replied, then she just faced the sun.
Marlo looked at them all, except for Mirlo. "Let's go back to the Watch," he suggested.
"Wait, what do you mean 'was?'" Silverside asked half whimpering.
Marlo held his breath; would Maya be able to tell what had happened again? Was it too painful? He waited in silence.
"He..." Maya shoke her head. "I...he was killed by a diseased wolf named Lamarian. He wasn't bad, but he was...cruel of malcadh in ways. Ducan never told us that he was out, he told us all that he died. But...he was alive. And when me and Shadow went for a walk for some caribou, he...he was killed by Lamarian and...I did nothing. I stood there like a foolish pup would, shocked, terrified...sad." Maya explained, even when her eyes were watery, she held the tears in. Shadow had been her forever friend, and he passed away that treacherous day.
