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alone had allowed the
monster to succeed. Had she just continued her prayer, had she just
kept saying those magical words of power, her mother would still be
alive and her father would be safe again instead of mutilating her
mother's corpse. Alina could not seem to make herself turn away as
the beast slashed at her mother's limp form again and again with
its terrible claws and tearing at her with its horribly mangled
teeth. Even when the creature began to devour her, tearing thick
strips of flesh from the body to be swallowed whole, Alina forced
herself to watch. It was the price of her weakness.
    When the beast looked up at her, one milky
white eye wide and staring while the other of swirling red narrowed
dangerously, Alina knew that she was to be next. No amount of
running, hiding or pleading would save her. Controlled by the
monster formed of misused magic, her own father would kill and eat
her. Just like her mother. The price of weakness.
    The weakness of the witchwolf, who created
him from her lonliness.
    The weakness of the humans, who could not
stop the creature that preyed upon them.
    The weakness of her mother, who could not
stop the beast from escaping.
    The weakness of her father, who could not
control the monster within.
    And the weakness of herself, who had allowed
the beast to win.
    “ It's okay, Daddy.” She
said softly to the staring eyes. She had stopped the words, the
words that gave him strength. She had stopped them just at the
moment he needed them most and allowed the monster to regain
control. And now it had grown too strong to stop again. All of them
had succumb to their weakness. “I forgive you.”
    Thank you for reading this
short story. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
This short is part of a collection relating to The Wolfcaller
Chronicles, which take place in a strange and faraway land full of
alien creatures and interesting races like those mentioned in this
story. If you enjoyed this tale then please check out book one of
The Wolfcaller Chronicles, Uprising!
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