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"Hear
the sound
The angels come screaming
Down your voice
I hear
you've been bleeding"
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Every muscle in Kiba's body was tense as he stared into his own face. This is her, he thought. She was the one in my dream.
-He shot you-, Kiba said simply.
-What?-
-That man on the cliff. He shot you.-
Shock registered on Shaera's face. Then an incredible fury clouded her eyes, and she turned and ran.
Kiba hesitated, but tore after her. Blue started forward as well, but Hige stood in front of her.
-I think he needs time to think about this.-
Cheza walked slowly in the direction that Kiba had taken. This time it was Toboe's turn to start.
"This one will go alone," Cheza said. She smiled. "It's fine."
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Shaera showed her teeth and snarled at Kiba. Her tail stood straight in the air. -What exactly do you think you're doing?-
Kiba looked away. –I'm sorry. I didn't mean anything by it. I just…need to know…I need to know…-
-Why we look like twins?-
Kiba looked back. He growled; Shaera was laughing. But then, without warning, she became deadly serious.
-I know what you're looking for, Kiba.- She locked eyes with him. –I've been there. I've been to Paradise.-
Kiba froze. –You…you've been there?-
Tsume ran in, as a human. "Kiba, we have to move now. There's a hunter out here."
Kiba and Shaera disguised themselves as well. Shaera looked around warily and suddenly turned to run.
"Too late, you damn wolf." A bullet hit Shaera in the shoulder and she went down.
As Tsume ran to kill the human, Kiba leaned Shaera against a tree.
Tsume crouched beside him. "Is she alright?"
"I don't know." Kiba pulled her sleeve down over her shoulder to check the wound.
Tsume stared. "How could…something like that happen?"
Kiba growled. Shaera's shoulder had long, deep cuts all over it. He moved both arms out of her sleeves and moved the shirt down to the top of her bra.
Now Tsume joined Kiba in growling. Shaera's torso was covered almost entirely with the same cuts.
They maneuvered her shirt back on and Kiba went back to look at the hunter.
"This guy shot her this morning, too."
"Yeah," Tsume said, "and she looked pretty freaked out that you knew about it. Pissed off, too."
He looked at Shaera; she was coming around.
"Hell, but I'm sore," she complained. She looked at Kiba and shifted uncomfortably. "What?"
Kiba was staring at her. "You were telling me…about Paradise."
Tsume blinked. Paradise?
"Oh. Right…well, boys, Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be." She paused. "I have to say…it's a thousand times better."
Kiba and Tsume glanced at each other.
"Tsume," Kiba said quietly, "go get the others. I think they'll need to hear this too."
Tsume stood and ran south.
Kiba looked at Shaera. "Now, what did you want to tell me earlier?"
She nodded. "You had asked me why we are the same. I was about to answer when I was…shot again." She closed her eyes. "A few months ago—no, I can't keep track of the time anymore. I was with my own pack, and we were going to Paradise. I had my two best friends and my younger sister with me. We ran as hard as we could, and many times we were nearly killed."
Shaera sighed and put her head in her hands. "We finally made it to Paradise. It had taken so long, and it was so hard…but we were not allowed to enter."
Kiba listened intently.
"Paradise has a gatekeeper. She is the most beautiful and terrible she-wolf I've ever seen, and she called herself Varah. You would not believe her size—she is twice the size of any normal wolf. She looked us over for what seemed like days, but I'm sure was only a few minutes.
"Finally she looked at me, and she said, 'You will not enter this Paradise until you return here. And when you return, you must have with you the other Gate.' I had no idea what she was talking about. So I asked her what she meant—how could we already have one gate, we had nothing with us. She answered me by saying, 'You are the first Gate. To enter Paradise, both Gates must be opened. You must find and bring with you the other Gate.'"
Shaera looked at Kiba and her gaze was filled with sorrow. "You are the other Gate, Kiba. I knew it as soon as I saw you—we match, we are identical, how could it be anyone else?"
Kiba smiled. "I'm glad that you found us then. I don't think I would have been able to face the others if we made it to Paradise and had to leave."
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