Lil Thing followed Iris when she agreed to talk with Grace and then dropped around her ankles again, once the two of them stood a little bit faraway from the seven warriors, so they would be able to have a private conversation.
"What happened?" Iris asked, glancing at the fur ball before her legs, seemingly the bear was sleepy, as it closed its eyes.
Meanwhile, Grace was speechless to see this bear. She was grateful Lil Thing came with them, or else, she couldn’t even imagine what would have happened to Iris and the other people inside the carriage, but, seriously, this bear had two polar opposite sides to itself.
"I want to let you know that I am running out of water magic stones. We need those to make your concoctions." Grace didn’t look awkward when she told Iris about that.
Even though Iris was blushing a little bit, as both of them knew what kind of concoction that Grace was talking about, she knew this situation could be troublesome.
The only place that Iris could think of getting the water magic stones was the black market, to be specific, it was Lou’s territory, the Rosantine guild, in the black market.
Iris wondered if she could ask him a favor, but then she needed to discuss this with Cane as well.
"Have you told Cane about this?" Iris asked, wondering what Cane’s suggestion for this matter would be.
However, Grace shook her head. "I can’t bring up this conversation in front of the Alpha since he has been stressed out by a lot of things, more so, the timing is not right."
Despite meeting Cane a few times a day, there would always be other people around them and usually. He would be in the middle of something important that needed their focus more. It didn’t feel right to bring this matter up at that time.
Therefore, Grace thought, Iris could tell Cane whenever the two of them were alone and the Alpha was not so tensed up.
"I will talk with Cane about this," Iris said in a small voice, thinking what kind of reaction Cane would have, if she suggested to ask a favor from Lou.
"Okay, I will leave this matter to you." Grace smiled softly at Iris. "Be sure not to take long, because the stones may only last one more month."
Cane and Iris needed to drink the concoction on a daily basis, while Iris’ was more like tonic, Cane’s potion was concocted to help with his fertility.
Therefore, actually the water magic stones were of more help to Cane than Iris.
"Okay..." Iris nodded.
And after that short conversation, Iris went to see Ethan. From outside of the door, she could hear how Ethan and Aliana were bickering with each other about trivial things.
"Are they usually like this?" Iris asked with a chuckle to Eron.
"Yeah... you can say that’s how Gamma Ethan shows his closeness to someone. He will bicker with everyone that he is comfortable with." Eron scratched his head.
Hearing that, Iris couldn’t help thinking about how Ethan used to bicker with Redmond also. It had been a while since Iris saw him.
Redmond didn’t even see her off when they left the Howling Wolf pack and ever since the attack and Cane put Sofia out of the pack house, Iris had not seen Redmond at all.
It was ridiculous, but Iris kind of missed his antics and his bluntness.
And before Iris could knock, Ethan had opened the door, as he was able to smell her scent already. He grinned when he saw her.
"Iris!" Ethan was topless, but thankfully, he had his pants on. "I know you will worry about me!"
"What are you doing?! Put on your clothes!" Zephyr facepalmed the Gamma and pushed him back into the room, while Eron and Dyne helped to put clothes on Ethan.
"What’s wrong with you guys!? I have been on a journey with her before, she must have seen me without clothes at some point!" Ethan protested.
"It’s still not appropriate, you dummy!" Zephyr retorted, as he made him wear his clothes forcefully.
Seeing this, Iris chuckled and entered the room. It was a nice room with a fireplace across the window. Alpha Gian probably used this as a tea room, because there were a lot of teapots here.
Dust glittered in the rays of light from the window and when you looked outside, you would be able to see an oak tree there. This pack house was beautiful and neat and the people who stayed here and took care of this place were very pleased to have them.
At first, those people were afraid they would do something horrendous to them, after all, they were Alpha Gian’s people and Cane was the person who had killed their alpha, but gradually, when they learned the Howling Wolf pack members were different, they warmed up to them.
An old lady here told Iris how she wished to follow Cane and become part of the Howling Wolf pack.
But despite that fact, the situation here was not conducive and favorable with the Silver Warriors being adamant to reject Cane as their leader.
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