Freedom awaits if we have the key

I listen intently to the words of the elder one. My bright pink and black encircled eyes resting on on her copper ones. She speaks in latin this time, telling me that I would grow, that I would be able to see the island someday. I wanted it now, but I knew I had to wait. It annoyed me, frustrated me even that I was trapped in my small body, I couldn’t wait to grow up, do things on my own without having to worry that someone older and stronger could stop me at a moment's notice. Time. I knew I just had to wait.

”I understand. How do I cultivate it? What do I do to be better? I don’t want those to get in the way of what is mine. I don’t want things taken away from me. Do I simply just need to get stronger? Is there more? You gifted me, but what do I do with them now?” I say blinking up at her watching her features. She gives me a look, not to different than what my mother gives to me. I know it to be something loving I think. I do love my family, appreciate them, I do not want them to go. I want nothing to disturb what I have. Even if father is gone a lot, if mother is overbearing I don’t want them to change. I was naive though, I didn’t know there was more out there beyond my overprotective mother, this land. Not yet at least. I know brother has wandered, yet I am still bound here.

It is then she tells me my desires are not bad, but that the Island belongs to someone else. I feel myself tense up, my hackles raise, though she mentions asking him about it, or fighting for him for all the land. I do not really want all the land, I do not want ALL the wolves, just MY wolves. But at the same time… ”Mother tells me to stay away from him. The alpha. Tells me he is bad, that he will hurt me. Is that true? I think nothing of him other than what Mother has told me. He is bad.”

I am not sure what she will think of the end of my rhetoric. Even father seems to avoid him, I know they are brothers, but I do not know anything beyond that. Not that he and mother were imprints, Juno was lead to believe that her father and mother were each others everything, that imprinting was valuable. This was what her mother told her, taught her over her short life thus far. Juno wanted an imprint, a wolf like her father, but better, more there like her brother. She would pick her brother perhaps, but he was family, that was what they were supposed to be, he was to pick his own female and Juno her own male. That was another year, when she would be able to imprint then she would start finding the one she was to be with. The one she could start her small empire with.