Chaos & Confusion

Ezekiel shook his head and he quietly tried to argue. “Elder what you are trying to get out of me won’t change the fact of what has happened or even why Jacob was put down...” Ezekiel sighed and he closed his eyes.

“He wanted to hurt the person I love. He wanted to take him away from me and...” Ezekiel stopped. He understood that what he was about to say would likely get him the full wrath of the Elder but he was past the point of lying and it was clear that the Elder was already aware that this all had much bigger things going on.

“Jacob and Hovel of the Alchemists Brotherhood want to kill my Mate.” Ezekiel clenched his jaw and hissed.

“Jacob died trying...and Ill kill Hovel myself before he ever comes near Brandon again.”

Ezekiel didn’t have to hear the gasps from Drin and Erin to know that he had shocked his family by finally giving up the act and revealing his connection to Brandon. Ezekiel looked at his family and he saw their worry and concern for him etched in their faces.

The Reaver wanted deeply to reassure them, but he knew that by presenting himself as Brandons Mate he had just openly expressed his refusal to cooperate in any way that would lead to his Mate getting hurt, and he had also placed himself opposite those that would think to go after Brandon....including the heavens themselves.

Ezekiel’s eyes centered on the Elder and where he had expected to see something like rage or even calculation all he saw was a small glimmer of sympathy.

The Elder took a shallow breath and she touched her heart. “Mate? So...” She quietly said. “You claim this thing....”

Ezekiel bristled and steeped closer with a deep rumble. “He’s not a THING!”

Bonsa tilted her head again and she cut back. “And he is not just a mortal either....is he?”

“Why ask me all this if you know...didn’t Balder tell you anything!?“Ezekiel rolled his fangs in his jaw in frustration and looked away. The Elder clocked his withdrawal in silence then she said.

“As I said Elder Balder came to the Dragons rambling on about finding boy lost to time, then....Balder just disappeared without a trace and to be truthful he went missing long before he managed to tell us anything of importance, perhaps he was taken?”

“What!” Nate growled, his eyes got wide with fear. “Balder....he can’t be in trouble right? He’s an Elder too. He’s strong.”

Ezekiel looked at his brother’s stricken expression then he felt Elder Bonsa move, she stepped back and put a hand to her chin.

" I have no answer to that...but All of this is....quite confusing to be honest....” The Elder snarled then she turned around. “Tell me HOW Jacob Elicist met his end at the hands of this 'not' mortal Brandon?”

Ezekiel glowered at the woman and so it was Walters voice that rose up calm and commanding and sure.

“Why do you need to know such details Elder?” Called out Walter form the side. “His dead brown eyes weighted the woman and yet for all the inflection in his face or voice he could had been looking and speaking to a bug on the ground.

“My Brother has expressed to you all that you have asked of him and things that he did not have to reveal....and still you ask him to willingly speak more on what his Mate did, a crime you threaten us with death for?”

The Elder sighed. “You misunderstand me Clan Heir...“she called back soft, and Bonsa even dipped her eyes in a respectful gesture as she called Walter by his rightful tittle. “I don’t not seek to gain evidence concerning the murder of the Clan Head Jacob any longer....instead I seek to understand my own fear concerning the fact that I believe I was sent here not for the reasons I was lead to believe.”

Walter crossed his large arms over his barreled chest and he rumbled back. “Explain.”

The Elder took a breath, glanced around at all of the Shifters before her and she shrugged. “I am not sure if I can explain. First I am sent here to investigate accusations of treason and murder, only for me to reveal that both the murder and treason were accidents carried out by the hand of a mortal man not aligned with your Clan.” Bonsa licked her lips and looked around.

“I arrive here and all around me I sense something is wrong and out of place, amide a burial ground of creatures I had believed long eradicated....and now there is the implication that nothing I was told by the Lion Prides was truthful seeing as you accuse Jacob Elicist their leader of conspiring with the Grand Master of the Alchemists.”

Bonsa looked to Ezekiel and she quietly finished. “None of this speaks to clear motivations on your end to lie to me...but if you are not lying and the Lion Prides are knowingly being dishonest with the Dragons I can only assume that there was a reason for all of this....and as clear as I can understand it that reason must be to sew seed of chaos and confusion among the Heavens and in your Clan....”

Bonsa turned slight upset eyes about and then she said. “I need more information, but I think it is very clear that something about all of this is not adding up."

Bonsa dark eyes seemed to darken with things he wanted to understand but didnt. All he knew was that he could see her mind churning.

"Why would the Lion Clan ask for a formal investigation...and yet neglect to tell me that Jacob Elicist was involved in an attack upon this land?”

“Creating chaos and confusion....a storm of misinformation.” Ezekiel softly added, his mind raced as he put a hand to his chin in concentration. He followed along with Bonsa’s stark logic and assertions and he found that in moments of her explanation he began to feel that something was very very wrong.

“Bonsa....Are you saying this was all some kind of plan?”