Chapter 34 Moon festival

• Lola’s pov,
• It was the day of the moon festival a couple of weeks later. The normally quiet village was buzzing with sounds. Lola walked through the fields that were filled with little stalls where people could sell things. Every stall sold something different from hand-made clothes to carved wood, to home-cooked meals. Besides the stalls, there were different areas where you could play all sorts of games. Lola saw a couple of wolves doing a strength battle with a big rope between their teeth. She rolled her eyes at the excessive display of growls and grunts and walked to the big dancefloor in the middle. There was a band playing and around the wooden dancefloor, there were lanterns in the shape of a moon everywhere. On the day of the moon festival the sun never got up and the only light came from the full moon that was shining brightly. Today was about celebrating the existence of werewolves through the blessing of the moon goddess. The whole day you could have fun, dance, and eat but in the evening the leading alpha always led a ceremony to honor the moon goddess. He would acknowledge certain werewolves that had stood out through the year and tell the plans for the coming year. Then he would swear a blood oath to protect all the packs, and everyone would follow his lead. After that, the night ends in a run, in wolf form with all the packs together.
• Lola knew Noah was very nervous about his speech because this year it would be different from other years. They had spent weeks trying to find the right words to convince everyone of the changes they wanted to insert. Lola had also been extremely busy visiting all the households in the pack. She had to take her luna tasks seriously because she would need the support of her pack now more than ever. She actually already had been able to change something major with the support of all the she-wolves in the pack. She convinced the males that it was better for the children to stay with their mothers at a young age instead of giving them independence training. She gave an emotional speech about her own orphan life and the importance of parents in growing a level of trust. The mothers of the pack had been extremely grateful that they could shelter their pups a little longer now.