Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 353: The Side Effects Of A Won War

[RANIA]

For a whole week, Kim Rania had slept.

In that week, her friends had done a complete cleanup of their home.

They had made sure to try and restore the order that was there before the war; It hadn’t been easy, doing away with the dead bodies and the remainder of those who hadn’t been incinerated yet.

Despite the magic they had, they still had been unable to burn all the bodies, because they needed to make sure the Incayon air was breathable. They had done a lot in making things right.

Where the prisoners had once been was just a plain old field with grass that had quickly been brought to life. Anyone who hasn’t been in Incayon for the past year would simply marvel at how clean the place had managed to stay.

It was perfection, and Incayon seemed like the ultimate home.

"Do you think we should wake her up now?" Dalrae asked as they sat at their usual breakfast table. They had all been dining in the assembly hall with the warriors as it was the easiest way to have them all in one place.

Given that Incayon had not exactly come out of fear, all the other Incayon citizens had remained in the hideout they had been sent in. That was to make sure that he would stay safe, if ever someone tried to attack Incayon.

The warriors missed their families, they missed their home and what it had once been, but then there wasn’t anything they could do. They had known this when they signed up for the Incayon military.

Perhaps they should have been even more careful.

There wasn’t a need for that because they had managed to win the first streak of the war. They would face everything else later on, but what would always remain was the fact that in all that they did, they had done it with Incayon’s best interest.

"We shouldn’t rush her. She’ll be fine. Her energy is growing and she seems to be stronger than all of us combined. I’m not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but then that is what is happening," Kaia said with a proud smile.

He was happy that someone was stronger than him, or maybe he was just happy that his mate was getting better and her body was slowly healing itself.

They had all taken enough rest in the course of the week and were slowly getting used to the hope that was filled with just warriors and nothing else.

For five hundred warriors alone, Incayon was huge, perhaps too huge for such a small population. They felt like they were drops of water in the sea of land that was Incayon pack.

Oh, but it was interesting and scary at the same time.

They hadn’t heard anything from the pack leaders they had sent away. Last they heard, was that they were setting upma council to run the kingdom for when the King came back.

The same was also going on in Drarun, with the only difference being that Drarun already had the King’s brother to run it in case his brother didn’t come home. It wasn’t much to be considered but it meant a lot to them.

There was only so much they could pretend and hope. But maybe, just maybe there was going to be a simpler and better way once they were done, right?

"Alright then. What do we do now? We don’t have responsibilities and it feels weird being this free," Odelia said and they all just agreed with her.

They had all been used to being busy bodies and yet right now the only thing they were was just people leading normal lives. Well, as normal as anything could ever get, in Incayon.

"We keep waiting for Rania to wake up. Besides, the warriors need some rest too. They haven’t laughed in a whole week and that is creepy, especially for warriors who were used to being noisemakers.

"Right now, the hall seems to not be bustling with life as it used to. Warriors were always excited and yet as we sit here they are so silent, almost hopeless IN their wait for what the future holds. It is creepy," Paloma said, as they just sighed.

She was right though.

The Incayon warriors, the Altunia warriors and even the hybrids had been silent. They only asked when they went to get their food, but beyond that, there was nothing, absolute emptiness that was slowly carving them out.

They seemed hopeless on many fronts alike they had been defeated in the war, when they had been the ones towing.

"They are worried about their general. They haven’t seen her since the war and some of them are already thinking that we aren’t telling them the truth.

"Given Rani has a history of making a run for it when everything gets overwhelming some of them think that she jumped shop," Han Seong explained as he played around with his frock.

None of this was making it worthwhile really.

He was worried too just like the warriors and wished that they had a way out of this. This was never what victory looked like, but then they hadn’t exactly been the most normal of warriors for them to start talking about what was victorious or not.

They had been in their own world, trying to get through the day like it was their only hope for sanity.

"They’ll be fine. We all will be. When our general wakes up, she will have a solution for us," Chang Wook said reassuringly even though that was more for himself than to the warriors and their friends.

He was hoping that his sister didn’t lose her mind in the back of it all. The transition from a werewolf alpha to a Lycan wasn’t as hard. The only problem was that Rania wasn’t what people would consider a normal alpha wolf.

So, they were right to be worried for her. But then even if they did worry, this was beyond them. They didn’t have the answers for the first time in so long and time was the only thing that could teach them what to expect.

Perhaps they would find a common ground somewhere in between, right?

"Oshita would have known what to say to the warriors and bring their spirits up. They look so torn. In get that the fallen warriors and the torture they all did had to have affected them in some way, but goddamn, I wasn’t expecting it to be to this extent.

"They look so broken and lost it’s almost like the only thing they live for is food at the moment; how the hell are we to even encourage them in that state?" Odelia said defeatedly, thinking back to the woman she was meant to be saving.

She had worked so hard for a mate bond, and it was just not fair that she had lost hers in a war that hadn’t even properly begun.

Of course, today she had avenged her mate, but the fact that Jungwoo was still alive somewhere was driving her nuts. But then she also had to remember that they needed a break from the war.

They needed to understand each other and make themselves feel a little better because failure to do that, they would all fall into depression and that would make them into targets.

Very easy targets.

"I have an idea to lighten up the room," Dalrae said as she stood up.