novelMEMORIES FROM THE PAST
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Little Kace lowered his head as he looked at his father's shoes that walked away from him, and told the other people to prepare their departure.
What Kace felt at that time, after a long waiting moment and finally his father took him with him along with his brothers, he felt that he had failed his first performance, he had left a bad first impression to his father because of his hesitation.
However, if he was given a second chance, and if he could turn back time, he was still not sure whether he would kill that person unhesitatingly or not.
Kace stood there, remained there as he could hear people were carrying those dead bodies away and burned them.
The unpleasant smell from the burning flesh invaded his senses. Kace disliked it.
He stood there unmoved until Torak approached him and patted his head. His second brother didn't say anything as he gestured to follow him, meanwhile, Jedrek had entered their royal carriage together with their father. Kace and Torak took the second one.
Inside the carriage, Torak didn't say anything until Kace opened his mouth and spoke.
"Did you kill the first person immediately?" Kace looked up to his brother, who was looking at the scenery out of the window, with a boring expression.
Torak gazed Kace lazily as he propped his chin in the palm of his right hand."I did."
"You don't feel the slightest doubt?" Kace was amazed. After all, aside from those stories that Torak told him about his journey with their father and brother, this was the first time Kace witnessed people get killed right before his eyes.
"No." Torak answered readily.
"Oh, " Kace hummed, now he felt weird because he was the only one who failed his first attempt.
"You are from the strongest Alpha bloodline, the sovereign of this realm, if you show any signs of hesitation when you execute those traitors, they will strike you back without holding back, " Torak said in his nonchalant tone.
In a world that is full of beasts, you don't have a lot of options except to be the beast of your version and as one of the sovereign, the burden was far heavier.
"We protect our family, not those who backstabbed us when we turned around, " Torak shifted his eyes back to the road."Remember that."
Of course, Kace remembered all of that, since that day, many things happened and they had to go through many gruesome decisions and actions.
Now, Kace was standing in front of some other burning bodies once more. He sighed deeply as he could taste the unpleasant stench in the air. His grip on the black stick tightened. The heat licked his skin as he moved one step closer.
When Kace was close enough, he threw the black stick to the flames.
But, no words came out from his mouth or said in his heart as he knew those words were meaningless.
Those words wouldn't bring back the dead to life and those words also only made Kace feel like the real moron and hypocrite.
After that, Kace turned around to walk back to the crowd as he caught a sight of Chiron, who was looking at him with the same gaze that he had centuries ago.
Kace remembered that day as though that just happened only yesterday.
They just won over the centaur's territory in an attempt to expand their own, it was Kace who led the army of lycanthropes to bring down the old race of this supernatural creature.
The order from Jedrek was very clear, he wanted all the mates of those centaurs to be killed, no females and children were allowed to live, but Kace didn't oblige that.
While the other squadron of lycanthropes fought a bloody battle with the centaurs, Kace and a few of his men looked for the shelter of those warrior centaurs' families.
After hours of searching, they found their shelter and held them as hostages to make those centaurs bow their head without a fight.
Kace supposed to kill them, but he didn't.
A new life was born at that time. The mate of the centaur's chief just gave birth to their firstborn.
A son.
When there was no one there to protect anymore, the lycanthropes that Kace brought with him killed them all, it was so easy to put them to death.
However, that wasn't what Kace did.
He let them live, putting them inside ten big cages, to show to their male and told them to stop fighting.
Of course, with their mates being held captive, those male centaurs came to their knees and threw their bow and arrows.
Kace remembered the agony that flashed in Chiron's eyes when he could only stare at his firstborn and his mate, but was not able to touch them, to carry his son, because they were being separated.
He even remembered that there was one night when the baby cried on the top of his lungs, asking to be fed, but there was nothing he could eat.
And then this news traveled fast to Jedrek's ears, as a new sovereign, having his own brother disobeying his direct order was a disgrace.
Kace kept the situation that way and separated those mates for days, until Jedrek himself came to take care of what his brother couldn't finish.
"Kill them, " Jedrek said in his usual commanding tone, but Kace was not any Lycanthropes, they shared the same blood, so it didn't affect him like the others.
"We kill traitors, but they are not." Kace objected to Jedrek's order. He could tolerate killing other creatures when they meant dangers for his family, just like what Torak said years ago, yet this situation was different.
However, of course Jedrek couldn't take rejection very well.
With the same words, he roared to his men."KILL THEM!"
Kace closed his eyes and when he opened them, Chiron was there, standing a few meters away, staring back at him.
And when Kace returned to stand in his position before, next to Chiron, Hope squeezed his hands and asked in concern."Are you alright?"
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