Chapter 564: The Extra Daughter
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Yarin’s POV:
This was a run away from home. There was no doubt about it. The truth was undeniable, even if I spared no effort to glorify it as a great adventure.
I admitted that I was a little regretful now. What I saw along the way was completely different from what I imagined. Heller and I followed Lily across the border and sneaked into the human territory, but the scene here disappointed me.
The decaying and dirty streets, the walking dead, the malicious gazes, and the idle life were all part of this adventure. Lily mocked us for being ignorant and treating a shady alley as a colorful human society.
“This is an abandoned neighborhood,” she said. “This is one of the prices paid by this prosperous border city. The people here are hopeless. Their compatriots have abandoned them and can only rely on meager relief and contraband to survive.”
“Why is this happening?” Heller asked.
Lily, who had always known everything, could not answer this question. She only said, “An unsatisfactory start determines the tragic life of these people. Not everyone has the chance to start over. It’s a very precious luxury. Most people can only suffer the consequences of an insignificant decision.”
In short, from Lily, I learned that this place was only at the edge of human society. It was still thousands of miles away from true prosperity.
I hoped that Lily would be able to bring us into real human society, but in the past few days, we had been spending time in the homeless’ shelter. This journey had become meaningless, and I began to regret the price my parents might have paid.
I wouldn’t be able to go out and play for a whole year.
Lily forcefully led us back but was unwilling to tell us the reason. The winter night was really cold. I could use my thick fur to resist the cold if I had my wolf.
But now, all I had left was a dirty down jacket with a cut on the cuff. Occasionally, a little goosedown would fall into the air like snow.
After about two hours, Heller said that he couldn’t move anymore. He had always been an honest man and never lied. If he said he was tired, he was really tired. Lily rolled her eyes and led us to a hidden abandoned warehouse to rest.
This was a temporary warehouse that once belonged to humans. Many goods from the werewolves or shipped to the werewolves would stop here for inspection.
Lily introduced us to this place.
However, such warehouses were built quickly and abandoned quickly. Therefore, many abandoned warehouses were left in the border area between the two races. Whenever she ran away from home, she used these warehouses as a temporary resting place. At least there was a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
“So why do you run away from home every year before the Moonlight Festival?” I asked, “Aunt Teresa once cried to my mother for a long time. She was very worried about your safety outside, and so was Uncle Daniel.”
“They only worry about it once a year. One time is equivalent to a year’s worth of concern. It’s convenient for parents, isn’t it?” Lily said gloomily, “If they don’t want me to leave, they can just do something to lock me in the house. No matter which house it is, I can’t resist at all.”
“Who doesn’t know how to put it nicely? I’m afraid they’re focused on cultivating their heirs to fight against the other party. They can’t wait for me, a useless daughter who might even fight with my brothers for the family property, to die outside.”
Lily’s words were a bit scary. Heller tightened my sleeve while I subconsciously leaned closer to him.
The cold wind whistled past, and the iron house let out a strange whine, like the prelude of a horror movie.
“… I hate the Moonlight Festival,” Lily said. “I hate moon fudge, I hate parades, I hate family gatherings, I hate their hypocritical care and contemptuous looks. I only have one body. No matter which family I choose to go to for a holiday, the remaining one will show a disappointed look, as if I owe them something. So I decided not to go to anyone’s house. A free life alone is much more interesting than a boring banquet.”
Lily was sixteen years old this year. She was the elder sister of Heller and me. Her mother said she had liked disappearing before the Moonlight Festival since she was twelve. This gave Aunt Teresa and Uncle Daniel a headache.
Cynthia always knew a lot of things. She said that Lily was very depressed because her parents were divorced. Each of her parents took away her two brothers, and when it came to her, she was in an awkward situation.
“Why would it be awkward? Uncle Daniel and Aunt Teresa are still her parents, aren’t they? Now that she has two homes, she can go wherever she wants. She has much more freedom than before.”
However, when I said that, Cynthia would roll her eyes. Even Heller looked at me as if I was a fool.
“You’re so stupid. This isn’t a math problem. It’s not that simple.” Heller’s look was strange to me. “Lily has no home. She has become a waif. She can’t go anywhere..”
