Chapter 16

Aymaco's POV:

"General, how long will it take to clear Yaya as to pass command of the Pack to her?" I ask.

"After we interrogate Elder Joel, but I am satisfied with the results, once the Lady Loiza is up we can transfer power." Braka states.

"You will do no such thing!" Yaya interjects. "I am an Elder, my days of leadership are long past, plus this this very morning proved that my skills are not as sharp. I will serve as advisor to Loiza, in fact we last spoke of taking time to complete her High Priestess training. But we need young blood in leadership, Elders guide and share wisdom but we are children of the Moon and must accept when the phase we live has passed."

"Yaya, I understand your wisdom, but Iza is young, lost everything and just found her mate. Isn't this a little much of a burden on her?" Ura asks full of concern.

"Don't you know your own sister? She can already perform tasks only a High Priestess can achieve! She is an amazing strategist and the Goddess keeps Blessing her with more power. She can do this and we are going to help her." Yaya is determined.

"Giving her that power would be akin to naming her Alpha Lady Yaya..." General Braka frowns at Yaya.

"Precisely... my Mark has been itching for the past 20 minutes, I'm sure Iza does not feel it because she's in hibernation. But we are not safe where we are now wherever that is. Again I need to know what happened. everything is not right here." Yaya is calm but thoughtful, she is back to full regal Priestess status.

After we explained to her everything that happened this morning during the time that she was unconscious she is thoughtful throughout the entire story. "They probably thought that if I couldn't help your sister she would probably die. But I verify the status of different aspects of the island weekly, there was no unusual activity from the mountain, I'm going to wait for Iza to wake up to investigate the mountain." Yaya is deep in thought. She also has the particular ability of opening portals were 10 or 11 people may cross, it usually takes massive amounts of energy from her part, but if the other person is also a Priestess it mitigates the effort.

"What are you implying my lady?" Braka asks sternly.

"From everything you have mentioned to me that happened this morning, and the information I know about are island's terrain and the things that can disturb them, I have my suspicions. When are you going to interrogate Elder Joel?" She asks.

"Well My Lady since you decided that command shall rest on Lady Loiza, we will wait for her since she has her own questions. We prefer not to alert Elder Joel that he is a suspect." Braka replies.

"But I thought you said that they were bringing him now?" She asks confused.

"We wanted to see if you had any reaction, I'm sorry for the deception My Lady." She lays back to bed with her eyes closed and massaging her temples. "I guess all in all this has been an awful day! Do I get something to eat at least?"

"At once My Lady!" Braka links someone. "A lady named Nancy will bring you something, also I have sent for Zara and Caleb to stand guard, I am not liking the fact that this pack doesn't have a Priestess to begin with." Braka says resolutely.

"Wait, they have no Priestess?! I thought their Luna was one." She asks with raised eyebrows.

"Not since before the current Alpha was born, I saw her earlier and she only has a light scar of were her Mark should be." I inform her and I could see Yaya's eyes go wide with shock.

"She must have committed a grave offense against the Goddess! And they didn't get a substitute?" I can tell she is more uncomfortable by the minute.

"They did, but the girl was killed in a Rouge attack... or so they say." I had a bad feeling about these strange unfortunate events against Priestesses of the Goddess in this pack myself.

"A Priestess of the Goddess killed by rogues? That's nonsense! The attack would have to be in the THOUSANDS and rogues can't coordinate attacks of that magnitude, even if she was a young girl she is trained not just in combat but the how the elements at her disposal. I have a feeling this place is cursed." Yaya says with a dark expression.

"Where is the Luna?" She asked suddenly.

"Luna Lydia is helping her through her grief." Braka informs her.

"You mean the same one who lost favor with the Goddess? I think not! General send Warriors to protect the Luna as well, we definitely do not want her unguarded." Braka follows her orders. "How long has Loiza slept so far?" She asks looking at me.

"No more than about three hours My Lady." I answer, usually Loiza would need about 12 hours before she is back to her usual self.

"That won't do, we need her to wake sooner rather than latter... I will transfer some of my Life Essence into her that will help her wake sooner without any risk to her, we need her and she will need me. My Mark has not stopped itching which means we are not an impending danger, but we are not safe either." I feel Yaya officially be back to her usual self, after not even knowing what was going on it only took an hour for her to sort all of her emotions, understand that the pack was not safe and is now willing to transfer some of her life Essence into my sister to make sure that the chain of command is not broken and that it is active as soon as possible.

"My Lady, if you do transfer some of your life Essence into Loiza how much of your life are you willing to forfeit?" Just like with Iza using up her Energy, the transfer of energy to someone else also has a cost.

"I will give her one more hour of sleep, but after that I will give her enough energy no matter how much of my life I forfeit, by my calculations it will only be a year, which will be well worth it if we are in danger NOW, what is a year of my life worth if we are basically risking to lose ours now. This must be done, I need her awake to help with the interrogation of Elder Joel and I need her to come with me to Karaya, I'm also going to need her so that we can go back to Avalon, right now they are the only true allies we have and it's best that all of you remember that. Now if you excuse me I need to eat something and recover to prepare myself for the ritual to be able to transfer that energy, get in contact with the boats, pick another rendezvous point or at the very least tell them to stand down for now, as long as they do not come here. And General, make sure that every Warrior is inconspicuously alert, we do not want our hosts to know that we find them suspicious." With that Yaya dismissed everyone except for Morgana, as a witch, she can assist Yaya with the ritual.