Marley’s p.o.v. I feel proud of someone I have never met and I wish I could share this with someone right now. Grandma taught me everything about poisonous herbs and plants. Evlehover is toxic to all Shifters and if used correctly, it will cause a Shifter half never to come out. Jacan thought he had done the right thing, but someone had overlooked the fact that merely surrounding and feeding a Shifter with Evlehover is insufficient to prevent a Shifter half from emerging. Everything needs to be done right. It needs to be made into a liquid form before adding it to food or drinks to have an effect. That same liquid needs to be used in the mortar of a wall, clothes need to be drenched in it and anything else you can think of. Even if Mahina ate the food with the Evlehover, it wouldn’t have affected her Shifter half. The Evlehover in the walls was used in the proper form and will only stop working if the building is taken down. I can still shift into Acadia, but it won’t do us any good. The bars in front of the windows are a part of the structure. My best guess is that this is a structure made of Kreasium with wood and bricks to cover it up. Lana has been sneaking to the edges of the roof to find the stairs that can lead me to freedom. It isn't easy to do it with Pack-members walking around and sometimes we are able to peek over the edge for a second.The Omega keeps returning to bring me food, sometimes with the Warrior following her and other times by herself. Today, she left a small note behind and I cried after I had read it. Every trace of my family has been slowly disappearing, at first, the big stuff like paintings and pictures. In the past two and a half years, the Pack-house was redecorated one floor at a time: new paint, new carpet, new furniture and everything else they could replace. She wants to know if there is anything I would like to have as a reminder of my life before I turned eighteen. I asked her if she remembered the painting in the main hall, our family portrait. The pink dress I was wearing was a gift from our King and I heard the story behind it over and over again. It is the one item I would love to have with me. Damn, she knew the Royal family. Why didn’t anyone question their disappearance? I try to remember what I read about Gold Moon Pack, but I don’t recall reading about an Alpha family dying. As a matter of fact, this Pack isn’t that old. It was founded about three hundred years ago, but these journals indicate that a Pack was founded here centuries before that. “What if they changed the name?” Acadia asks me and it sounds like the most logical explanation. I am almost done with reading Mahina’s journals and once that is done, I will have to wait for someone to find me. We finally found the stairs that lead to our freedom, but it will be challenging to get to them during the day. I wonder why no one has ever questioned my visitors about it, because there is no way to hide from sight as you walk up or down. I waited a few days before I informed my visitors about my discovery and all I got was a small smile from both of them. It is the last entry in the journal and all I know at the moment is that Mahina was locked up here for nearly four years. I assume that she got away, because there are no more entries and the journals were still hidden here. I wish she had mentioned where those stairs are; it would make it easier to figure out if anyone could find them from down there. The contents of the journals have raised many questions, and I wonder if Meadow’s family is a descendant of the original Beta line or if they were asked to take on the position. Did the Warrior and Omega survive after Mahina escaped? “Let’s hope that someone finds those damn stairs. I am done with being locked in here.” Acadia growls as she curls up in the back of my head. “From your mouth to the Goddess's ears.” I respond. I thought my days of being a “prisoner” were over, but here I am. Four more nights until the Full Moon, and I am hoping I will not spend them stuck in this little room. I am glad that I never found my fated Mate in Seven Cloud Pack. I doubt there will be a Seven Cloud Pack from now on, as I don't think Livia and Nolan will want to keep the name. The silence is getting annoying, so I start humming. Anything to keep me from going stir crazy and to keep my mind on something else. Grandpa loved the more folk-like songs from the Human era. He could listen to them all day and they are my everlasting connection to him and the time we had together. I wasn’t able to sleep after his passing without his favorite song playing in the background. Acadia joins me as I hum and lean back with my eyes closed, trying to recapture the feeling I had whenever Grandpa and I would listen to this song. Especially the last sentence of the song is what reminds me of my Grandpa and his explanation when I heard it for the first time. Though darkness lay, it will give way when the dark night delivers the day. No matter what you face in life, always remember that it will eventually end. How you respond while experiencing it or afterward is what defines you. My ordeal with Devlin and how he treated Grandma gave me the strength to keep going. I didn’t want anyone else to go through it, and I would have done almost anything to stop him from inflicting pain on others. It gave me the will to find his dirty little secrets and the hope that one day I could expose him. Because Devlin might have been the night that kept us hidden, Meadow and the others represent the day that saved us from the life we were living. My stomach growls, reminding me that I have been here for a long time. I missed a few meals. My educated guess is that it is nearing dinner, meaning that I have been here for over twenty four hours.I start humming again, because thinking about food isn’t my best option at the moment.