Chapter 22 - The Discovery

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His eyes widened when he realized what that could mean but he still wasn’t sure because as the description went, it could be used for anything. He wanted to do a little more research.

He opened the pictures of the plant. It was a very beautiful purplish-blue flower plant. He wasn’t satisfied so he searched for its uses.

It is a strong, fast-acting poison that causes serious side effects; vomiting, pupil dilation, weakness, nausea, sweating, breathing and heat problems and sometimes death. Application of Aconite to the skin is UNSAFE. Only 5 milligrams of aconitine—the weight of a heavy sesame seed—can kill an adult.

So, it was harmful to humans, he concluded. But it didn’t say anything about a person like Zadkiel. So, he kept reading…

Homoeopaths use aconite to treat restlessness, anxiety and fear. Though it can cause acute sudden fever if you’re exposed to dry, cold weather or extremely hot weather. Other symptoms are tingling, numbness and coldness, influenza with congestion and pulsating headaches.

It was no use for him. He thought of searching it for werewolves. He had no idea what he was doing. He just wanted to get something out of it. If aconite was as dangerous as it was described then why would Father give something like that to Zadkiel? And why would it affect Zadkiel so much? Because he remembered Zadkiel telling him that nothing worked on him. No poison. No medicine.

He typed in another question. He was so lost in it that he had forgotten that sister that went inside searching for any student who has sneaked into the rooms, would eventually have to walk back through the same path.

“Aconite uses for werewolves.” He typed in the search bar and pressed enter. A small circle swirled in the middle of the screen for few seconds before the screen showed the results.

The folklore: Aconite has been credited with supernatural powers relating to werewolves, either to repel them or in some way induce their death, as aconite was used by witches’ oftenly in their magic. It was also said to turn a person into werewolf if ingested or worn.

At this point, Abel wanted to just laugh because it was no use. In one sentence, it’s described as to weaken them or be the cause of their death and in the second it’s said that a person can turn into a werewolf by it.

He had no idea what to believe. When he understood he wouldn’t be getting any answer from the internet because the search engine is made by a human and it contains only the information that humans know so, he gave up. Humans knew nothing about people like Zadkiel, and Irvin’s reaction to him knowing about them showed that.

He was about to close the tabs when his eyes landed on the small ‘People also search for’ section.

What does aconite do to werewolves?

He clicked on it to try his luck. He knew this would be a dumb human guess saying werewolves turn into vampires after touching this plant. He waited for the results and then it displayed on the screen. He squinted his eyes to read them.

Wolf’s-bane, also known as aconite or monkshood, causes weakness of a werewolf. If a werewolf makes physical contact with a wolf’s-bane in any form, it will burn and weaken them.

Though this answer didn’t confirm if Zadkiel was a werewolf or not but it still was very much closer to what Zadkiel described. He remembered Zadkiel telling him that he had to control his demonic side and this made so much sense.

“I’ve been taking aconite to control myself. It burns like a bitch but it keeps my wild side controlled.”

He opened another tab to search about werewolves to at least get an idea if Zadkiel was a werewolf or not when he remembered something.

“What? You can feel him?” “In every bone of my body.”

“He said I’m his mate.”

“He broke the bond.”

“It’s very ill-mannered of you to pry into someone’s privacy, Alpha.”

He remembered all those conversations he had with Zadkiel. He frowned, thinking how deeply Zadkiel was affected by Irvin. The way Zadkiel’s eyes turned into amber and his pupil became a slit. He remembered his grown, pointed, black nails. He remembered his low, rough, deep scary voice.

Amber eyes

Slit in eyes instead of a pupil

Black, pointed nails

Scary voice

Mate

Bond

Alpha

Abel’s eyes widened when he realized that he had figured it out.

Zadkiel is an omega werewolf!

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” He was brought out of his trance by a shrill voice, shouting at him. He turned his head towards the door where a female figure was standing, flashing a light at him.

His first instinct was to run away through the other side of the door but then he remembered what he had searched. He turned to the computer and pressed ‘ctrl h’ and cleared his browsing history before the lady could approach him.

“I’m talking to you.” The lady approached him with the torch still on him, burning his eyes. “What are you doing here?” She questioned him in a stern voice.

“I wanted to search about something?” He stammered, not sounding convincing at all. His words came out like a question. The lady squinted her eyes at him in suspicion. It was hard to notice her expression in the dark room and with the light burning his retina.

She stood beside him after turning off the torch. Abel said a prayer of relief when she shut that bloody torch. He looked up at her from his sitting position. She was glancing at the screen where he still had the browsing history opened but cleansed of any activity he had done.

“Why would you clean the history?” She looked at him in suspicion. Abel was well aware that there was no way of getting out of this but he wouldn’t tell her that he was searching about werewolves in the middle of the night so, he quickly thought of the excuse to make.

“I was watching porn.” He stated. Her eyes widened and her cheeks coloured pink in embarrassment. Abel could clearly see that now because the light of the screen was shining upon her face.

He knew he was in for a good punishment now. Porn was forbidden. He had put himself in a bigger problem now but he couldn’t just think of anything that would be that much important to remove from the browsing history.

“Get up! Right now!” She spoke furiously.

“Shall I turn off the computer?” He questioned, innocently. Her nose flared as if she was going to burst out of anger. She gave a nod.

Abel turned around and exhaled. He moved at a snail pace as he was taking his time turning off the computer. He stayed glued to his seat even after the screen went completely black and the light illuminating the room vanished, making her turn on her bloody torch again but this time it was pointed to the floor next to his feet. He kept staring at the pattern on the wooden floor, refusing to stand up.

“What are you waiting for?” She questioned, pushing her hand against his back for him to get up.

“I was watching porn. Let me calm down first or it’d be embarrassing for both of us, Sister.” He thought he was in trouble already. Might as well take his time to prepare himself for the outcome of his little rebellious act.

She quickly pulled back her hand from his back and took a step back. She let out a loud sigh and shook her head at him. She had caught a lot of boys doing this at night but this was the first time someone owned up what he was doing.

“Okay. We’re good to go.” He stood up when his mind was ready to face any outcome. He turned around to face her. She scrunched her nose in disgust before pointing her torch to the door for gesturing him to walk before her.

He let out another breath before walking towards the door. Once they were outside in the hallway, she led him straight to the room where he knew a penalty was waiting for him in the morning.

Besides all this, he couldn’t wait to tell his best friend what he found. He was so happy that he was the one who was going to tell him. He knew that Zadkiel wanted nothing more than to know who he actually is and he could even imagine the expression on his face when he’d reveal that to him.

He was waiting for the sun to come up so he could be over with his punishment and tell his friend about all of this.

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