Second Chance Luna (Phoebe and Jason) novel Chapter 64

Phoebe walked down the hallway passing various labs before reaching the one she wanted. There she found Mona at the desk preparing samples of some sort for the sequencing machine. Phoebe didn’t know what any of the equipment was for and didn’t bother asking.

“Hello Luna,” Mona greeted.

“Hello,” Phoebe sighed sinking into a seat.

“So what can I do you for?”

“What are you doing?” Phoebe asked, her curiosity getting the best of her.

“Processing blood, tissue, hair and saliva samples from the rogues. I’m trying to isolate where they came from.”

“Any results?”

“For this batch, no,” Mona sighed. “But if it follows the pattern of previous attacks…then most of these wolves probably started off some fifteen hundred miles from here.”

“Really?” Phoebe asked looking at the map Mona had on the computer screen.

It was filled with small red dots. Each dot represented a wolf whose full origins might always be a mystery. What they knew about the rogues relied mostly on the results of Mona’s tests.

“Yep. Rogues don’t usually travel that far.”

“They don’t?”

“No. From our previous study using radio collars we know most rogues tend to stick to a territory about fifty to a hundred miles in diameter. They very rarely leave.”

“Why did these ones travel so far?”

“Good question. Unfortunately, I don’t have a definite answer,” Mona sighed. “Most rogues set up their territories bordering a pack territory. How or why we don’t know. They usually stay in the same area unless driven out either by pack wolves chasing them off, fire, or some other natural disaster.”

“Why do they set up a territory at all?”

“A question for the ages,” Mona sighed. “Personally I think they are following their instincts. Wolves usually set up a home territory after all. But as for why they set one up close to packs…maybe it’s a homing instinct? The need to be in a pack, safety in numbers?”

“Maybe a homing instinct?” Phoebe added.

“Like they are trying to return home?” Mona asked. “Maybe.

Until we have a more conclusive DNA database for werewolves we probably won’t know for sure.”

There were many questions about rogues and hardly any answers. As far as she knew the studies they conducted on rogues were the only ones being done. Some paragraphs are incomplete if you are not reading this novel on Jobnib.com. Visit Jobnib.com to read the complete chapters for free. With rogues on the rise it was important to understand just what drove them to go feral. However, by the time that happened, they were already too far gone to ask.

Phoebe stared at the map deep in thought.

“Something catches your attention, Luna?” Mona asked.

“It’s just…it seems a lot of rogues came from near Rimrock.”

“You’re old pack?” Mona asked looking at the map. ”

Interesting.”

“But I don’t recall our alpha ever banishing someone,”

Phoebe frowned. Banishing was a last resort as the chances of such wolves going feral and becoming problem rogues were too great.

“Well, fur samples can only tell us where they were recently,

“Mona said. “They might have traveled even further.”

“But why come here? Blue Moon hasn’t banished anyone, have they?”

“No. Never. Not for the last three or four alphas certainly.

Blue Moon is very good at keeping records and I have yet to see anything about banishments, though it’s a long history.

“Then why?”

“I don’t know. It’s almost like…”

“Like what?”

“Like they are being drawn in.”

Phoebe gave her a confused look.

“Jason is a powerful alpha and Blue Moon is a large pack,” Mona shrugged. “We have applications to join almost daily.

Sort of like how she-wolves cling to alphas.”

Mona smirked as Phoebe gave her a waning look.

“It’s a females instinct to seek out the strongest male for a mate,” Mona explained. “It’s probably a holdover from our Lycan ancestors. I have a friend who’s an archeologist with the New Moon pack. According to her Lycans didn’t have fated mates. They could take any for a mate, even multiple ones. It led to some gruesome infighting. Maybe that’s why the Goddess gave us fated mates.”

Though Mona’s theory seemed outrageous Phoebe felt Máni nodding in agreement. Perhaps it wasn’t off the mark at all.

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