WOLF QUEST

Chapter One |✓

     The night is cold ...

     The air is thin ...

     The mist that covers the forest floor is so thick I can't even see my own paws as I lay in deep thought, slowly drifting into slumber.

     My almost pitch black den is dimly lit by the half full moon, and the surrounding grass has just been covered by a thick layer of condensation.

     I breathe in deeply, and smell the beautiful scents of nature. I can smell the sleeping animals high in the trees, and also the ones that rest deep below in their burrows. I listen to the green tree frogs as they softly croak to each other. I listen as the crickets whistle and sing together in perfect harmony. I listen to the soft purr of the sleeping wildcat, and the low singsong hoot of a frog-mouthed owl.

     Something else stirs in the wind ... something I've never smelt before ... and it's too unfamiliar to forget about ... I don't even know if I should risk it and go to find out what this strange new scent belongs to.

     I'm a brave wolf, and if I'm going to be a father, an alpha, and the protector of my pack one day, then these are the risks I must take.

     I am a wolf...

     I must be braver than a lion, stronger than a rhinoceros, faster than a cheetah, stealthier than a fox, smarter than a human, hungrier than a tiger, sharper than a Viper's fangs ... and I must stay true to the wolf I am, just as my mother had asked of me before she was slaughtered by the humans.

     I will NOT let her down.

     Not now.

     Not ever.

     I must remember what, and who I am.

     I am a wolf.