Kimberly's POV:
"You need a name." I crouch down at the corner of the cell.
"What do you prefer?" I ask her.
My wolf seems to be lost for a while. She keeps on thinking for a while and then excitedly gasps. I am waiting for her reply but it turns out that she is excited for nothing.
"I want to think of something but my mind just turns blank. You see, I emerged out recently. You would know better of the world than me, wouldn't you?" she questions.
"You really don't have anything on your mind." I try to confirm before I say any names that she might abhor.
"Well! Not right now." She assumes.
"Let me think some… How about Lily…Julie… Stephanie… Or Maxine…" My eyes are still hoping she might want one of them. But there is no answer.
I name her couple of hundreds of names, but she refuses having any of them. I am tired. I mean, I listed the most of the names that were on my mind. Seriously, I have never utilized my mind this much just to name someone. Did my parents have a hard -time finding me a name too.
'Kimberly'
It's not a common name. I haven't heard anyone with that name in my pack. There might be more in other pack but not in mine.
Moreover, I loved how mother and father always shortened my name and called me KIM. To people who don't know me, they might think that's my name. But how lovely and sweet it used to hear whenever father and mother called me KIM.
Maybe, I should just give a shorter name to her too. Something that feels like homely. Something that feels like she belongs to me and she is of great significance to my life.
"How about DIVA?"
I cross my fingers as I pronounce the name. My eyes are still confused, and my ears are almost ready to hear another rejection from her.
"You're joking Kimberly! How can you come up with that name?" she purrs.
She doesn't seem to be delighted. Well! Maybe that's all I have. I don't think I can come up with any more names.
"I'll have it," she responds.
"Huh!" I get surprised when I heard it cause I had never expected her to accept that name at all.
"You like it?" I confirm one more time.
"Yeah, I am fine with that name." She might be disappointed that I couldn't come up with any names and have to settle down in that name.
"Oh! Well! Stop over-thinking, you know. I am completely fine with that name. It's just, I haven't heard that name for years. That's the reason. But I like it. It's short, sweet and it suits me. Afterall, I am DIVA." I can feel the pinch of pride in her voice.
Well! I don't have any problem if she is okay with the name.
"Kim!" she calls me. Her voice is low, gentle and as if she is hurt.
'What is it?" I reply with a low toned voice too.
"How long do you think we would be here? It's so tiring to be here. I want to go out, see the water, play, see the forests, meet with other wolves and do so much more. I always wanted to see the mountains. The first thing I was thinking of seeing was mountains. I never thought I would emerge being locked up in you without getting to see any of that." Her voice is subtle. I can feel her. She has seen the things that she wasn't supposed to see since the day she emerged. But I don't have a choice too.
This whole situation was never planned. I can't even imagine what the hell happened in last few days. II feel as if I am walking through the edge of knife every day. What is life trying to test every day?
"I am sorry," I apologize to her. If it was home, if I was with father and mother, she would be having a great time at this moment but now, she is just struggling with Me.
"You don't have to apologize. You did nothing wrong. And I was always made for you, to protect you, to handle and fight the dangers before they reach you. The only thing that I hate at this moment is we're unprepared. We both are. As a result, you are struggling to shape me, and I am struggling to protect you. I have always been organized and disciplined. Coming out without any preparation just pisses me off," she yawns as she says that.
I don't understand. She just emerged out of me, but she is talking about being organized and disciplined and as per I know her since the day she was out, nowhere in the world, she seems to be organized and disciplined. Not at all.
"Take rest, Kim! We both don't know what tomorrow is going to serve us with. It might be like today or it might be worse than today. I don't even think of better days inside this dungeon anymore. Just take rest, little girl," she says sleepily.
I guess she is extremely tired right now. And in a moment, I can hear her snoring.
She is right. I don't know what holds for me tomorrow. I don't even know what I am supposed to do.
I am lost. I am stuck in a place I had never ever imagined. I am in a situation that I never thought I would be.
Single day!
Just a single day and I lost all the things that were precious to me, I lost all of my people just in a single day. I wonder if father and mother are still there or if they left. Never in my life I am going to believe that they left me alone in the world.
Yeah! They are there. They are still here. They'll come. They will find me. I know my parents. My father is best of the best Alphas. I have seen his skills. His skills are undoubtedly perfect and my mother, she is more than just perfect.
They will make it. They will just make it. They will just find me.
Well! If they don't find me, then I am going to find them. I am going to look for them. Either way, it is finding each other. I will go through any lengths to find them. I have to get back home. I have to be there and see for myself. They have to be there. They must be waiting for me or they might be looking for me. How can I inform them? I don't have my cell phone with me and I am afraid if they have one. If… If … only I could talk to my parents once. If only I could tell them, I am still waiting for them. If only I could see them.
Having a glimpse of my parents is the greatest dream right now.
Once… Once I get out of this dungeon, I am going back home. I am searching for my parents. I am going to find out all the truth about why my pack was attacked. I know it is about the stone, but I am going to find out why? Why this stone? What can this stone do? Why is this special and why did it engrave itself on me?
I have to get answers to all those questions.
I can get it, right? I can find out everything about them, right?
Tears roll down my eyes…
I am glad my wolf is sleeping right now or else she would make fun of me seeing me in my tears. I shut the shuttle of my eyes and imagined the light green meadow behind the forest of our pack where I used to play. It was a large area and made for all the wolves' children to play around.
I can hear laughter of children, their cries, their excitement and their excited voice.
I hear my mother calling me to hurry up and come back home for the lessons. I deny and run away from her with my petite feet trying to play more but just after few steps, she catches me. She holds me up in her arms and laughs out loud.
"You're being playful, now Kim. I would love to let you play but you see you have a lesson to complete, and you can come back to play again. Does that work?" she smiles as she tells me so.
I nod my head as a good child. She kisses me on my forehead and cheeks. I can feel my mother's lips touch on my skin. How safe and protected and loved I feel even with the thoughts of her in my mind.
She brings me a pile of notebooks and places it in front of my study table.
"You've got to finish a page of every book today," she instructs.
I look at the piles of book. I don't want to read them at all. They are too noisy. Playground is good. I would do better in playing there. I might even get a gold medal or maybe silver or at least bronze for playing in the ground. They don't have any sports like those, do they? But why books?
"Mom! I am feeling sleepy…" I feel drowsy just after few minutes of looking at the pages of the book.
"Kim! Kim!!Kim!!!"
I sleepily open my eyes. I don't understand why she is waking me up as it's extremely urgent.
"What happened?" I rub my eyes as I wake up.
"See… See that?"
"What the hell is that?" I shout as I reflexively stand up and jump behind my place.
"Run…" I shout.