Taetae |TAEKOOK|

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Peaches, I am all okay now(at least what I think). I am sorry, I made you all worried. To be honest, being the elder children of a family is never been a better thing (At least in my case), It can give you a really toughest ever possible experience, you never want to gone through.
But reading your messages was the best thing I did yesterday. Although I couldn't reply. But I am genuinely grateful for you all. Thank you.

Your Unnie 💕

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"Paa! Why do I feel like something is wrong yet right? that, how much I get inside of the forest, the vast it becomes. How so? Sometimes it feels like I've thrown myself into a mystery. A huge mystery." Jeongguk said to the elder one.

Both are now sitting in their usual spot after dinner. Taehyung is fast asleep inside of their room, wrapped securely with a fluffy blanket. The old man just thought to keep silent.

"What can be inside Paa? Why no one allows us to get more inside of the jungle. I've never seen any wild animals roaming here and there to be feared of, all these months."

Paa sighed.
"You better don't go too deeper son. You will get lost." Paa interrupted.

"This is not about losing paa. Sometimes I feel like, it's a trap. As I said, The whole jungle gives me a vibe of mystery, a puzzle. which I want to solve. I want to see the whole-

"Stop." The other interrupted. "You seems tired, let's go inside-

"This is not the answer to my question Paa." Jeongguk protested.

"You don't know anything-

"And I want to know. I want to know what's wrong. I want to know what's going on with me too. This thing must have any connection with the jungle for sure. Because all these days I've been dreaming, only, of a black giant wolf and-

"Wait wait, what? A black giant wolf you said?"

"Yes. The day Tae shifted, that day something happened. Well I don't remember, as I was not in my sense, but when I woke up, I saw a black giant wolf standing there protecting us. The moment he left me, although he never returned, but his picture has been always haunting me. I couldn't sleep for a moment all these days. It's been always him, it's like he wants to tell me something, but I forget whenever I wake up in the morning, this is not normal. I wanted to tell you about that, but then again, I felt like, that was just my hallucinations but then-

paa?" Jeongguk calls for the stilled man, confused.

"D.id you see... Gulp* that wolf' eyes."

"Very clearly, it was red. Dark red. What's wrong Paa? Should I worry?"

"I-i think something is really wro-ng." The elder said with shaky voice.

"What's wrong you are scaring me."

"Son, I- The wolf you are talking about, is a cursed wolf. He is the only Royal true blood wolf the entire wolf community posses." The man's whole body is shaking.
"H-e never for once believably let anyone see his self, when he reached his ten years of life."

"Please please I request you paa. Please tell me. You are making me more confuse. What's going on? Are they Taehyung's family? What should I do?"

"I hid something from you son."

"Paa?"

"Son. Before that let me tell you something,
Wolf stories were something we were very familiar with till our last memories from brith. Then suddenly, One day, My mother told us, me and my siblings, That in a big set of fire, destroyed a whole jungle, which was once belonged to wolves. We were just 4 or five years old when this tragic incident happened. We couldn't see, only got to know by elders.
My grand father rescued many wolves from that jungle, and brought them to our village.
But only a few, we could rescue. The wolves were too much mentally disturbed state, because they had to lost their family, by the massacre which happened only because of humans, as they went to dig, oil there and unfortunately fire took over. From that very moment they only despises humans. They even tried to hurt our villagers as well."