Blaze of Fallen Leaves WIP

Blaze lay down beside Wind, her mate. “I feel so guilty,” she said to him. “Even though I wasn’t part of it. Even though I was too young to join.”

Wind sighed. “So was I. I see no reason for us to harm werewolves. What have they done to us to deserve such a life? To live in the wild, all alone, and fearful of attacks, both of humans and wolves? Caught between two races that wish their death, with no reason but hate?”

The two were in the woods, away from camp so no one could overhear their talk. It was not safe to speak of werewolves in the midst of other wolves, unless to say how much one hated them. They lay in the low bushes, branches brushing their pelt. The forest was silent, except for the twittering of birds in the warm fall afternoon and the scuffling of small prey collecting food for the winter. Blaze looked around her, thinking of the times when she had played with her werewolf and wolf friends. Her eyes filled with tears, but none fell. She blinked them away. Most painfully she remembered Night Black Star, her closest friend, besides Melody. Night Black Star was part of the Tree Song pack, which the Fallen Leaves pack had attacked three years ago, Melody and Blaze’s pack.

~ by Shadow on November 30, 2008.