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Justine Dumais
Chapter 1
Malia
Mi sono svegliata con un'emicrania. Ho guardato il soffitto sopra la mia testa per, direi, almeno mezz'ora prima di decidere di muovermi. Ogni mattina era così da quando riesco a ricordare. Respirare è difficile e doloroso nella prima ora, e poi riesco a scrollarmelo di dosso e affrontare la giornata. Girandomi su un fianco, ho fatto una smorfia per il dolore alla parte bassa della schiena che ha scatenato il mal di testa. Cosa ci facevo sul pavimento?
Sedendomi, massaggiando il tamburo che batteva nelle mie tempie, ho guardato intorno a me, i ricordi della notte scorsa tornavano, inondando la mia mente.
Ho bevuto con mia sorella, la mia altra metà, la mia adorabile gemella, che ora dormiva rannicchiata sul mio letto. Da oggi, le nostre vite cambieranno. Finalmente faremo parte della Reclamazione. Non che ne siamo felici, da qui la "festa per bere le nostre emozioni" che abbiamo organizzato insieme. Ho bevuto i miei nervi così tanto che devo essere svenuta prima di raggiungere il letto. Almeno, prima di svenire lei stessa, mia sorella mi ha dato un cuscino e una coperta.
Vederla così pacificamente mi disgustava un po'. Non era una vista sgradevole. Anzi, con le sue lunghe ciglia che accarezzavano quella guancia rosata, la sua bocca rotonda che faceva il broncio sotto il suo piccolo naso. Sembrava una bambola, i suoi lunghi e luminosi capelli biondi coprivano metà del suo viso assonnato. Quella donna pura sarebbe stata preda tra poche ore. E non potevo sopportarlo. Sapevo che poteva difendersi bene, ma non era nella sua natura. Temevo che la Reclamazione l'avrebbe segnata per sempre.
Per quanto mi riguarda, non avevo paura. Mi ero allenata più del dovuto e intendevo sfidare ogni lupo che si sarebbe avvicinato a me. Sentivo che dovevo compensare per entrambe. E diciamolo chiaramente, il fuoco che avevo dentro mi avrebbe permesso di resistere per ore. Tra noi gemelle, ero io la combattente. A differenza di Sarabella, i miei capelli, sempre raccolti in una coda di cavallo stretta per praticità, erano di un biondo sporco e polveroso, che sembrava che non mi facessi mai la doccia. Si potrebbe crederlo perché passavo le mie giornate ad allenarmi. Anche se condividevamo gli stessi tratti; le mie espressioni non erano così gioviali e amabili come quelle di Bella. Le mie erano agitate dalla disciplina e dalla costante allerta.
Ho lavorato duramente per anni, non solo perché mi piaceva la sensazione di un corpo dolorante dopo l'allenamento, ma perché mia sorella e io condividevamo un segreto. Un segreto che manteniamo da 10 anni. Beh, era mio, e Bella condivideva il peso. Mi ero già trasformata nel mio lupo.
I giovani lupi si trasformavano a sedici anni. Ma io ero in anticipo di 6 anni. Il mio lupo era bello. Pelliccia bianca e setosa, con un accenno di lucentezza argentata ogni volta che la luna rifletteva un raggio di luce su di me. Vedendo i lupi del nostro branco, il mio lupo era piuttosto grande per una femmina e per la mia età, anche se non potevo fare confronti poiché mia sorella non si era trasformata.
Poiché eravamo sempre così vicine e in sintonia, portavo sempre con me la domanda senza risposta: perché ero l'unica a trasformarsi quella notte? Shila, il mio lupo, non poteva dirmi molto. Non sentiva nulla di strano da Bella. Continuavo a pensare che fosse strano. Dalla nascita, non avevamo bisogno di un lupo per collegarci mentalmente. Lo chiamavamo il bonus del legame tra gemelli. Col passare del tempo, ho iniziato a pensare che fosse un segno, o un messaggio, per me di assumermi la missione di essere la protettrice tra noi due. E l'ho preso a cuore.
La mia trasformazione era ancora un mistero.
Nessuno si trasformava in lupo fuori dalla cerimonia tenuta dal Consiglio dei Branchi. Con la popolazione della nostra razza in diminuzione, era un argomento preoccupante e caldo. Anni fa, decisero di regolare le trasformazioni per sicurezza, e perché era stato dimostrato che una trasformazione collettiva aiutava i lupi a emergere per la prima volta con meno rischio che i giovani lupi diventassero selvaggi o peggio; morti.
Nella nostra società di licantropi, non era l'unico grande problema. C'era una voce in giro che la Dea della Luna ci avesse abbandonati. I segni erano sempre più evidenti di giorno in giorno. Non solo per la difficoltà nella trasformazione, ma anche perché l'accoppiamento con il compagno predestinato era così raro che non ce n'erano. Le gravidanze con un compagno scelto erano difficili e, se non ben monitorate, finivano per aumentare il tasso di mortalità invece del contrario. Tante femmine morivano durante il parto o perdevano il cucciolo lungo il percorso. Oppure entrambi non sopravvivevano. I maschi erano disperati, e le femmine erano terrorizzate. Nessuno sapeva cosa fare o a chi rivolgersi. Molti lupi lasciavano i branchi per isolarsi e diventare Rogues.
Le preghiere non venivano ascoltate. Il dolore veniva ignorato.
Il mio cuore soffriva per la disperazione della mia specie che stava per estinguersi.
All'inizio, la Rivendicazione serviva a provocare un legame predestinato. Sedici anni sono molto giovani, ma comunque, gli Anziani pensavano che dovessimo provarci. Furono create delle regole per mantenere l'ordine durante l'accoppiamento e garantire la sicurezza. Le femmine dovevano essere protette a tutti i costi. Dovevo ammettere che, a volte, mi sentivo un po' sollevata che non ci fosse più un legame predestinato. Alla fine, ti intrappolava nella presa degli Anziani e ti trasformava in una sorta di esperimento. Almeno, questo era il mio sentimento.
Successivamente, aggiunsero la parte della competizione alla cerimonia, da cui il nome Rivendicazione.
Molti partecipavano alla cerimonia. Più per la parte della rivendicazione che per quella della trasformazione. I lupi maschi potevano entrare in una lotteria e avere la possibilità di partecipare al torneo per rivendicare una compagna scelta. Era l'unico modo in cui i compagni scelti potevano accoppiarsi. Una decisione amichevole tra due amici per formare una partnership o semplicemente scegliersi per amore era considerata pericolosa e proibita. Considerando i rischi della gravidanza, gli Anziani tenevano il torneo per garantire che il lupo più forte potesse rivendicare la femmina. Credevo che fosse qui che avevamo sbagliato, ma chi ero io, una giovane femmina che, agli occhi degli altri, non si era ancora trasformata? Non avevamo voce in capitolo in questo, anche essendo nate dall'unica coppia di Alpha e Luna che si era rivelata predestinata.
I nostri genitori erano l'unica coppia predestinata creata negli ultimi 50 anni.
Non si trovarono alla prima cerimonia di trasformazione di nostra madre. Il che, a dire il vero, sarebbe stato disgustoso. Nostro padre aveva 4 anni in più e non partecipò alla Rivendicazione per molti anni, grazie all'addestramento precoce da Alpha, che diede a nostra madre qualche anno in più per sbocciare. Si incontrarono solo 2 anni dopo, quando finalmente partecipò alla lotteria. Nostra madre era uno dei nomi femminili estratti per il pool di quell'anno. Fortunatamente furono esentati dal torneo non appena si dichiararono compagni, e noi arrivammo 10 mesi dopo.
E ora, noi ventenni, eravamo seduti in macchina, per partecipare alla nostra prima Rivendicazione.
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