Yorick:
It was not easy for to put my entire family to sleep in silence.
After that, I lay down in the sa room with them and closed my eyes for five minutes, trying to steady myself.
But I knew I had to move quickly. Ti was short.
With that thought, I forced myself up again. Dragging my feet, I went to my room and packed a bag for myself, one for my brother, one for my mother, and one for my father.
Then I went into my parents’ office. I gathered every injection I could find, every file, every piece of information available, and stuffed it all into another bag.
After that, I had an SUV brought around. Pack mbers kept arriving outside the palace, asking if everything inside was fine, if their Alpha’s family was safe.
They were told that everything was under control. That the situation had been handled.
A few warriors approached as well. They inford that Troy had run off with Leysa and Clentine.
They said they wanted to send warriors after them, but I stopped them. I told them we had allowed them to leave.
I loaded my entire family into the SUV. Then I slipped into the driver’s seat quietly.
Humming under my breath, I started the engine and pulled away. Everything was about to change.
This was the biggest step toward ending the academy.
No one questioned at the border because my parents were in the back seat. They were not even visible from the outside.
As soon as I crossed the border, an announcent echoed through the air, calling Clentine a monster. I knew my pack would never admit that she had been with us.
Now they would need support themselves. Their Alpha and their leaders were about to leave. Sooner or later the council leaders will co to our pack to check on Clentine because they were the ones that sold her to my parents.
Silently, I drove the car to the station. Standing near the train again felt strange.
All the mories ca rushing back. My first arrival here. eting Clentine again.
Sitting in these sa carriages, wondering if we would return. Then coming back and exchanging smiles, reassuring each other that we could survive, that we had made it out alive once more.
Every mory resurfaced. Along with them, I was carrying a new version of myself as I prepared to leave this place.
After looking around for a while, I decided to load my parents onto the train. One by one, I dragged them into those sa carriages and laid them down.
I took a seat as well. But the train did not start on its own. There was another way to activate it, a thod my father had once shown over the past few days.
I had taken his access card. With that card, he used to send anyone here. That was how criminals were injected, turned into monsters, and transported.
I pulled the card from my pocket and held it in front of the scanner. The doors slid shut, and the train roared to life.
I lowered myself into my seat quietly. A storm churned inside my chest.
My eyes burned with tears, and my mind clung to a single determination. I would stop this academy, no matter what it took.
Once the journey began, it did not take long before we reached the station again. I stepped out and dragged my family’s bodies off the train one by one, leaving them on the platform.
After that, I walked to a bench and sat down. The train pulled away, and I slipped my father’s card into hiding.
I waited.
My mother was the first to stir. Even before opening her eyes fully, she seed to recognize through scent alone that she was no longer on the mainland.
She jolted upright almost instantly and scrambled to her feet, looking around wildly until her gaze landed on . Then her head snapped toward the train tracks and across the station.
"Where am I? How did I get here?" she scread.
Her voice pierced the air and woke my father.
In the next few minutes, they cycled through every possible emotion. They shouted at , demanding to know how I had brought them here.
One by one, they opened my bags and searched through everything I had packed.
"How did we get here? Are you out of your mind?" my father barked.
"Don’t you know your brother cannot survive in this environnt? He will turn into a monster," my mother cried, her voice breaking as tears stread down her face.
I watched them in silence, sitting back on the bench with one ankle resting over my knee and my hands clasped behind .
"And you think he is not a monster already?" I asked calmly, tilting my head as I looked at him with open judgnt.
"What have you done?" my mother demanded. "We should wait. The train will co back. It has to." She began rubbing her hands together, panic rising in her eyes.
"I do not think it is coming back," I replied casually, rising from the bench. "You should not rely on it too much."
I picked up one bag, then grabbed the other containing my parents’ needles and the files.
"Where are you taking those? You are not leaving here," my mother shouted, her fists clenched at her sides.
"Why?" I shot back. "So you can start your experints here too?"
Her eyes burned into my back.
A low growl rumbled from behind us. I did not turn around. I already knew what it ant.
My brother was waking up.
"I did nothing wrong," I said evenly. "I only brought a monster back to his own ho."
Before I could say anything more, my mother’s hand struck my face. The slap echoed across the platform.
I simply smiled at her in return.
"Mother, you did everything you could. Now I will do what I must."
I adjusted the strap of my bag on my shoulder.
"We need to leave. Once my brother regains his senses, he will attack us first."
With that, I picked up my bags and walked away.
Within minutes, I heard my parents’ footsteps rushing after . Their pace was frantic.
"Give us the bags. We can tranquilize him. We can help him," my mother pleaded, her voice trembling as she tried to reason with .
I did not stop. I was not going to waste those needles on him.
He was a newly turned monster. He could still be controlled. But I knew more monsters would co here, and that bag would be essential for handling them.
We kept moving for a while. Then my parents slowed and turned back.
I think they considered going back to Charles. But his growls had grown so loud that they started running toward again.
We wandered through the night without direction. Then sothing struck .
There was a place Haiden had built for Sadie when she was pregnant. I rembered the fence he had put up and the small tent he had secured there.
My parents were already on the edge of hysteria. I did not want to push them any further.
I needed them steady. I wanted us to work together and help the people trapped here. For that, I had to support them first.
So I led them toward that safe spot.
But the mont we reached it, what I saw there left stunned.
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