Triplet Alphas Gifted Luna novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85.

“How do we go about getting something set up to teach the exslaves how to read?” Thea thought to the triplets as they walked toward the pack house.

“Aren't there some retired teachers in the pack?” Conri said over mind link.

“Yeah.

Aldo Brown and Senan Moore,” Alaric said.

“Let's talk to them,” Kai said.

“You know, we’re going to need our own offices here pretty soon.

Somewhere to meet on official pack business.” “I'd say we need them today,” Conri said.

“We'll talk to Maggie about getting it set up,” Alaric said.

“For now, the coffee shop?” Conri and Kai nodded.

Alaric mind linked Aldo and Senan and asked them to meet them at the coffee shop in the village.

Then he mind linked Maggie about getting their offices set up.

A few minutes later, they were sitting in the coffee shop with Aldo and Senan.

“Thank you for meeting us here,” Alaric said.

“Of course, Alpha,” Aldo said.

“As you know, we've had an influx of pack members,” Kai said.

“A good number of them were formerly slaves, and they have no formal education.

We want to teach them to read.” “Will you help us get something set up?” Conri said.

“Of course,” Aldo said.

“We'd be delighted to dust off the old teaching skills,” Senan said.

“Excellent,” Alaric said.

“What do you need?” “We can do the main teaching, but we'll need some other people to help,” Aldo said.

“People to go around and help individuals with their work.

Two teachers can’t cover over a hundred students at once.” “Do you want us to send out a request for volunteers? Or do you have people in mind?” Alaric said.

“I think we know enough people who can help,” Senan said.

“We'll talk to them today.” “You know, they'll need to learn basic math too,” Aldo said.

“This is why we came to you,” Alaric said.

“We'll need a space big enough for the group,” Aldo said.

“We can designate some of the ballrooms,” Kai said.

“One for math, the other for reading? Or do you need to separate age groups?” “We can start with two ballrooms,” Aldo said.

“See what we’re working with and go from tart The triplets nodded.

“What else do you need?” Thea said. 

“We'll need paper, pencils, books, chalkboard,” Senan said.

“I don't know where to go for those things,” Alaric said.

“Don't worry,” Aldo said.

“Occupational hazard.

We know where to order teaching supplies.” “Whatever resources you need, you have,” Kai said.

“We'll get the pack accountants to give you a card so you can make the orders.” “How soon will you be ready to start?” Conri said.

“I think we could be ready by Monday,” Senan said, looking at Aldo.

“Yes, we'll have enough to get going on Monday,” Aldo said.

“Let's go talk to Maggie, get the rooms secured, then we can start setting them up,” Alaric said.

“Maggie will assign pack house staff to assist you getting tables and chairs, whatever else you need.” The group went to the pack house.

They visited the pack accountants, then went to Maggie, the pack house manager, and explained what they needed.

The triplets and Thea left Aldo and Senan with her to get things sorted.

“I think it'll be good for the newcomers to have something to occupy their time while they're getting used to being here,” Conri said.

“After they learn how to read, they can shadow people in their professions, see what their interests are,” Thea said.

“Good thinking,” Kai said.

“Can we go to the apothecary?” Thea said.

“I want to see the guy that’s making the crowd control weapons.” “Yeah, this way,” Conri said.

He led the way towards the apothecary store.

“Mr. Garrity,” Conri said when they walked in.

“Alphas, Luna,” Mr. Garrity said.

“Thankyou for the help last night.

The weapons were invaluable,” Alaric said.

“Of course,” he said.

“I’m already working on more for our patrolmen.” 

“Thank you.

That’s actually not why I’m here.

I wanted to see if you would let me use my gift on you,” Thea said.

“I’m still learning what all I can do, but I might be able to boost your abilities.

At least give you energy.” “By all means, please do,” Mr. Garrity said.

She felt into his brain.

“Will you think about your work?” Thea said.

“As if you were working on something.” s)0lC-me Thea sensed the parts of his brain that lit up.

She funneled energy to those parts, intended that those parts be supercharged, more plastic, more able to connect neurons and work better.

Then she funneled in energy to charge him and his body in general.

“Wow,” Mr. Garrity said.

“I feel smarter.

More energized.

That was incredible.” Thea smiled.

“Let me know if it helps.” “I will.

Can I ask what you did?” Her Delta team guards were interested in her answer.

“I could sense what parts of your brain lit up while you were thinking about working, and I funneled energy to those parts to boost them.” “Hmm.

I wonder if you could sense wolfsbane and reverse engineer an antidote.” mA ar- ecm ell 8-19 - ae Mr. Garrity raised his eyebrows then looked at the triplets.

“Her memory loss was thorough,” Alaric said.

Mr. Garrity turned back to Thea.

“It’s a plant, and it’s poisonous to werewolves.

There’s no known antidote.

You asked me to look into creating an antidote.” “lll give it a go.

Do you have some available?” Thea said.

“One moment.” He disappeared through a door and reappeared with a tray of wolfsbane in different forms.

“Depending on the preparation, the poison is more potent, acts faster.

Do you get anything off these?” Thea felt into the different forms.

Even though they all had a similar energy signature, she could read the plant the best.

It still had life in it.

“The feeling I’m getting off it is that there’s a molecule in the werewolf body that this attacks.

If you could protect that molecule somehow so the wolfsbane couldn't hurt it, I think you'd be fine.” “ve been doing some research,” Mr. Garrity said.

“Reaching out to scientists.

All of the molecules in our bodies communicate with each other.

They signal what kind of molecule they are, and they have receptors to see what’s around them.

There’s a branch of medicine that creates drugs to block the receptors or trick them so the bad stuff can’t get in.

Or they mess up the bad molecule’s ability to signal the receptor, again, so it can’t get into the cell to damage it.

If we could create something on either end, we might have an antidote.” “That sounds like a good place to start,” Thea said.

“Yes, it does.” “Is there anything you need from us? Do you need assistants? More equipment to make larger quantities? We've added a lot of pack members, and we may have to fight to keep them safe.

I don’t want any of our people getting hurt.

Your creations may be an integral part of keeping people safe.” “To mass produce, yes, I’ll need some new equipment and probably an assistant or two.” “Whatever you need, you have,” Alaric said.

“We'd like to get the border patrol equipped ASAP.” “Yes, sir.

I understand.” “I may have someone who would be a great apprentice,” Thea said.

“One of the refugees.

She was a slave, a cook mostly, but I got the feeling from her that she has an affinity for potions and combining herbs.

You can, of course, hire whoever you want—’ “If you have a feeling about her, I would love to try her out,” Mr. Garrity said.

Thea smiled.

“You know they're all a bit skittish.

She may need time to adjust to things here.” “Of course.” “Thea,” Alaric said in mind link.

“It’s time for the meeting with Delta team.” “Will you show us?” Jonah said.

“Anyone willing to demonstrate?” Thea said.

Several Delta team members raised their hands.

Thea remembered the sleeping brain wave pattern, reached into Maverick’s mind, and synced them up.

Maverick slumped over onto Landon, who was sitting next to him.

“Woah,” Landon said.

“He’s out.” Thea felt into Landon’s brain and synced Maverick’s waves to Landon’s.

He woke up and shook his head.

“That was something,” Maverick said.

“What else can you sense? What can you do?” someone said.

Thea thought for a moment and remembered his name was Ryker.

“I don't know.

I need to practice and experiment,” Thea said.

“On the last pickup, I sensed the people running, scared, and other people chasing, not scared.

I drained the patrolmen, and it slowed them a bit, and some of them stumbled and fell.

It made them clumsy.

I could feel where everyone was.

I could sense the borders of the pack lands.

When everyone was busy fighting, patrolmen caught the three girls.

They started dragging them back.

I felt their fear.

That’s when I ran into the woods.” “I don't like how you ran off by yourself,” Conri said.

Thea sensed agreement from everyone in the room.

“I know.

I won't do it again,” Thea said.

“Why didn’t you just put them to sleep?” Kai said.

“I don't know,” Thea said.

“I didn’t think of it.

I felt the girls’ fear, and I acted on instinct.

I only just figured out how to put people to sleep.

It’s not instinct yet.” “Someone needs to stay on Thea at all times during ops,” Conri said.

“So she can’t go off alone.” Thea side-eyed Conri.

“If we had to kill someone, or one of us got killed, that could have taken you down,” Conri said.

“We wouldn't know where you were.

You'd be defenseless.

We don’t know enough about your gift yet.

There needs to be someone with you all the time.” “Someone is with me all the time,” Thea said.

“Not in an op situation,” Kai said.

“No one was assigned to keep an eye on you, which is why you were able to slip away, and no one noticed.

It’s different than your regular guard detail.” “Alright,” Thea said.

“Il should have someone assigned to babysit me during ops.” The room could tell they needed to work that out amongst themselves then let Thea know later.

“We should figure out how best to utilize Thea,” Alaric said.

“If she can sense things at a distance, she may function best calling out what needs to be done.” “Your gift should be priority number one,” Liam said.

“You read the field, tell us where to go, where we're needed.

Like a watchtower.

Play crowd control from afar.

You get into the fighting as a last resort.

There are enough of us that we shouldn't need you for that.

Even though you're one of our best fighters.

Your gift makes us all better.” “I understand,” Thea said.

“I need to practice what I should be doing.

Maybe the old me would've known better what I should do, but I don’t have the experience.

If we practice together, maybe you can tell me things to try with my gift, things that would be useful.

See what all I can do.” “We can devote time to it in training,” Kai said.

Everyone nodded.

“Speaking of training,” Alaric said.

“We think it’s time for Thea to resume daily training.

Since she shifted, her health seems fine.

She’s ready.

Since she doesn’t remember anything, I’d feel better if she got back to it.” “It's also time to start training in her wolf form,” Alpha Ulric said.

“All of you should be training in wolf form now.

I know we’ve put some things on the back burner as Thea was healing.” “Now we can get back to it,” Kai said.

“I need to practice using my gift too,” Thea said.

“I know I need to relearn the physical fighting stuff, but I also need to devote time to the gift.” 

Everyone nodded, thinking.

“Should we plan on resuming early morning training tomorrow?” Alaric said.

“Yes,” Kai, Conri, and Thea said.

“We'll have four Delta team members with you each morning.

We'll rotate through.

Owen, would you get a schedule set up for that?” Liam said.

Owen nodded.

“We'll start with physical stuff, then gift stuff, then work in ops training and everything else,” Liam said.

The men shook their heads.

“You never have to apologize, Luna,” Maverick said.

“Thankyou,” Thea said with a sigh.

“Okay, so witches, vampires, rogues, guns, silver, wolfsbane, fire.

These are options but highly unlikely.

Do we all agree we don't need to make contingencies for these options?” Everyone nodded.

“They could try to hold a summit meeting,” Alaric said.

“Do the diplomatic thing and ask for their people back.

That could lead to open war, packs choosing sides.

Or it could be a ploy to get us off pack lands.

Attack us out in the open, or send their warriors to get the girls while we're away.” “Even so, with our current numbers and defense, they won't win,” Kai said.

“We may suffer losses, but they won't win.” “They could try to do a covert thing, ” Maverick said.

“Sneak onto the pack lands and infiltrate.

They could try some kind of Trojan horse scheme.

They only need one or two guys to make it into the pack house to find those girls and kidnap them.” “So we up our patrols and set guards on the girls?” Thea said.

“Basically,” Landon said.

“Should we move the girls up to our floor? Maybe next to our room?” Thea said.

“It'd be easier to keep an eye on them that way, but it also sets them apart from the rest of the newcomers,” Owen said.

“That may not be a bad thing,” Thea said.

“It’s only a matter of time before everyone knows what they are.

Knowing the future is tempting.

Regular people will want to use them all the time.

I want them safe from that too.” “What about having a room in the Delta block?” Alpha Ulric said.

A few of the men shivered.

“What? The thought of having oracles living next to you freaks you out?” Alpha Ulric said.

“Little bit,” Ryker said.

“Delta block sounds good.

I 'Il talk to the girls and see what they're comfortable with,” Thea said.

“Other things,” Hunter said.

“They could hire rogues as a distraction, sneak onto pack lands, find the girls and kidnap them.” “What about putting security cameras around the borders of the pack lands?” Thea said.

“Infrared cameras for invisible things? Motion sensor traps that throw down a powder that will outline anyone invisible.” “That’s ambitious,” Alpha Ulric said.

“Our territory is substantial.” “That would help with defense against witches as well,” Alaric said.

“Witches may not be able to hide the heat signature of camouflaged people.” “We'll look into it,” Alpha Ulric said.

“Another option is that they could try to take the students when they go to school,” Conri said.

“They are most vulnerable there,” Jonah said.

“Of course, that would be an open act of war,” Alaric said.

“They could claim we started it,” Ryker said.

“Their people left of their own volition,” Jonah said.

“We could be proactive,” Thea said.

“Take a stand.

Let it be known what we're doing, what we stand for, and that we won't tolerate human rights’ violations.

We intend to eradicate the mistreatment of werewolves, and we will do it by force.

If you’re with us, we have your back.

If you’re against us, we'll destroy you.” “That is an option,” Alpha Ulric said.

“We should wait to show our cards.

See how everyone responds to this first.” Thea nodded.

“Can we do recon on these packs? Can we get dossiers put together on each pack? What we know for sure, what we suspect, what we need to find out?” “We can get working on that,” Garrin said.

“We spent time in private investigation,” Ryker said.

“This is our wheelhouse.” “Excellent,” Thea said.

“Seems like we can make better guesses if we have more information.” “Absolutely,” Garrin said.

“I wonder what I could pick up on if I tried to sense what was going on inside the packs.

Individual members, like the Alpha, and overall? I don’t think I can read thoughts, but I feel intentions.” “How close do you have to be to read someone?” Logan said.

“I don't know.

I need to start experimenting,” Thea said.

“So what do we do in the meantime for defense?” “Longterm, we train everyone,” Alpha Ulric said.

“Add to the warriors and patrol.” “I sensed warrior blood in a lot of the refugees,” Thea said.

“I could sense their DNA mending.

I think with time here in the pack, their DNA will fully realize, and they will be strong.

Maybe they won't want to join the warriors, but at least they'll have an aptitude for basic training.

Maybe we'll have a lot of new recruits for patrol and such.” “We already have a significant influx of warriors in training from the open call a while back,” Liam said.

“How are the new recruits doing with the warriors and patrol?” Alaric said.

“They've been shadowing patrol,” Liam said.

“Not quite ready to be by themselves.

Give it another month.” “For now, we sit tight,” Alpha Ulric said.

“Our patrolmen are alert.

They'll have crowd control weapons here shortly.

We'll talk to our allied packs, make sure they’re on board.

Try to make new alliances before the evil packs do.

Other than that, we wait and see how they respond.

Anything else?” “We got to everything on the list,” Liam said.

They adjourned the meeting and went to pack dinner.

Arella, Ophelia, and Cassandra were sitting with Tessa, Lizzy, and Alessia in the dining hall.

Thea stopped by to say hello.

“How did training go?” Thea said.

“It was fun,” Arella said.

“People found their mates,” Ophelia said.

“Really?” Thea said.

“Yes,” Lizzy said.

“A few of the new members from different packs found out they’re mates.” Thea smiled.

“That's wonderful.

We'll probably need to rearrange rooms so they can be together.” “I can take care of that,” Alessia said.

“Thank you,” Thea said.

“I’m going to go eat, but I'll see you after dinner.” “Can we go sit with Luna?” Arella said.

“No,” Alessia said.

“The Luna and Alphas have to sit at the head table.

No one else is allowed to sit there during dinner.” The girls were disappointed but they obeyed.  After dinner, Thea put the girls to bed again.

She brushed their hair and talked to them about their day.