Chapter 573
At that moment, all I felt for Anna was great pity.
She deserved it and yet I couldn’t help simply pitying her.
I shut the door behind me and took in a deep breath.
I needed to do what I was supposed to.
I felt my stomach grumble aggressively and then remembered I hadn’t eaten.
Ever since I had joined Xaden’s pack, I was frequently hungry even though I rarely ate back home in our pack.
I sighed heavily and began my journey to Otto’s room.
Just like Anna’s bedroom, it hadn’t been difficult finding it.
Once I got to the bottom of the stairs, I looked up and couldn’t help feeling discouraged.
Those were really a lot of stairs.
I took in a very deep breath and began the journey up the steps.
With every single step I took I became weary and exhausted.
I wondered how anyone could even want to live up so far up regardless of the view in the room.
Once I reached the door of the space, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I gave a knock.
There was no response.
I waited awhile and then knocked again.
Still no response.
I considered leaving the place.
Perhaps he wasn’t around.
I turned back and looked down at the stairs descending.
It completely discouraged me to go and come back later to climb back up the stairs.
I spun back to the door and gave a hard pounding at it.
I kept on pounding and pounding aggressively.
I was about to smash it hard again when the door was swung open and displayed a very irritated Otto.
He had his hair still in a messy state, perhaps messier than the last time I had seen.
“Who the hell is it at my-
He stopped short when he saw me standing with my handing hand at the door.
He looked me up and down and his eyes sparkled from anger to excitement.
I never thought a man like him would be happy to see another living person
“Where the hell have you been?” He startled me.
I blinked confused. “I Uh… eh I was… I didn’t know I was supposed to come?”
I was confused.
He hadn’t wanted me around so what was with the change of heart all of a sudden.
He left the door wide open and walked into the room.
I hung at the door unsure whether to step in or wait outside.
“What are you doing?” He asked me. “Are you waiting for an invitation? Come in! Time is gold if you don’t know.”
That jumped me up.
I quietly followed him in and shut the door behind.
I looked around his room and it seemed the same.
As messy as it was, it was still beautiful.
The elegant windows that had a fantastic view of the entire pack with rays of sunshine streaming in.
Before I knew it, Otto was marching to my very front.
“Where did you get this?!” He demanded.
I looked down and saw he was pointing at Xaden’s mother’s journal.
“I got it from Alpha Xaden. It was his mother’s book I think.” I explained.
“Do you have any idea what’s in this book?” He asked me.
I shook my head.
“This is a book that has secrets of astronomy. Things that haven’t been found or heard from in years and years. I have been looking it for it.” He said his eyes lit with excitement.
He now pointed at pages in the book.
“Do you have any idea what’s language this is?”
He asked me.
I had no idea of course.
So I shook my head.
“This is the language of the goddess.” He said. “And only I can read it.”
I rose a brow. “How did you learn how to teach the language of the goddess?”
“I’m not the pack’s best astronomer for nothing!” He opened his hands out in pride. “This is what I had been looking for. The source of my hunger. I told everyone that it existed but no one believed me.”
And with that he scampered up to where his bed was.
I moved past the piled up mess and went after him.
He picked up a paper and handed to me. “This was the paper you saw when you first came here wasn’t it?”
I received it and sure enough it was.
“Yes.” I nodded.
He snapped his fingers at me. “No one can ever understand this language. I’m the only one who does even your friend Marie.”
The way he sneered the friend was drawn in an irritated way.
He didn’t like her one bit.
“She can’t speak or read it.” He said. “I learned from someone that has already dead a long time ago. Xaden’s mother. The late Luna of crescent pack. I had heard stories of her but never knew she actually was a believer.”
Now I was just plain confused.
He itched his hair and started snooping through books.
“What do you mean by believer?” I asked confused.
“Aren’t you a believer?” He asked startled.
“I do not know what that is.” I said further lost.
“If you aren’t a believer then why are you here?” He hissed at me.
He was like a hot and cold spring.
Switching to whichever suited him at the moment.
“I’m trying to find my uncle.” I said.
I was about to mention my father but then I stopped.
Only the goddess knew what my father would have done to him.
I had wisely learned not to tell everyone who I was.
Most times my father had wronged them.
“Who is your uncle?” He asked.
I have a slight shrug. “I don’t know. But my mother. He might have known my mother and if I can find him then I can find out my mother’s people.”
“Of all things to search for.” He began. “With the gift of this at your hands. With what the goddess has bestowed upon you. All you want to do is find your family?”
I rubbed my arm uncomfortably. “It’s what I want.”
He looked at me like I was out of my mind.
“You promised to help me.” I said hopefully.
The I quickly added. “The Queen told me to tell you that you have to help me.”
“That a threat?” He asked, his eyes blazing.
I took a very wise step backward.
“No it isn’t.” I stated.
He closed his eyes and took his deep breath. “Fine. I will help you find your uncle. But you will help me too.”
I wasn’t sure what i could help him with.
So I gave a slight shrug.
He beckoned me to come up to him and I did.
“What you have is old and rare.” He said the moment I stood opposite him staring down at the table with the book wide open.
“I’ve been up all night reading through.” He said. “We believers are wolves who know the existence of our first real home.”
“The Isle of Lycans?” I asked.
He glared at me. “No. That isn’t our first real home. Our first real home is a side of wolf world that is invisible. The Goddess made it for us in her own image. It was stronger than the Isle of Lycans. The Goddess gave wolves everything, but we wolves got greedy and evil reigned.
We wanted more. So she shut it down and cast us away. Severing the bond and creating two wolf worlds. The rest of the wolves think it’s a myth. But it isn’t. We know it’s true. We believe it’s true.”
I had never heard of such in-depth story.
“What does this have to do with anything?” I asked.
“Astronomy is the only way to find our way home.” He explained. “That’s why we had so many back then. But eventually most of them either died of old age, or slowly went Mad.”
And the it hit me.
That was what had made him run insane.
His intense search into a world that didn’t exist.
“But this.” He pointed at the book. “Is a break through.”
“I was told my uncle and Xaden’s mother were best friends.” I said. “From what I can tell in the books they were both invested in it. But all of a sudden it just went empty. On the last page she didn’t update anything on the journal. it was like it was incomplete.”
He sighed heavily. “I would translate the entire book and see what we have. It will take a while.”
“How long?” I asked panicked.
“Weeks.” He said and my face fell instantly.
“I’m not going to be here for long.” I confessed worried.
He grumbled before saying. “How well is your reading?”
“Good.”
He walked to a corner and picked up a high stool before pacing it in front of the table.
“Then I suggest you assist me with the translation.” He said.
I was surprised that he was willing to let me assist.
He glared at me still standing and I hurriedly pulled the stool and sat beside him as we began.