by Hopeflower » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:08 am
Night poked her head out of the den and scented the air cautiously before she retreated back inside, only to reappear a moment later with Lusa dangling by her scruff from her jaws. "Outside! We're going outside!" the pup squeaked excitedly, waving her paws as if trying to tell Night that she wanted to be put down. But Night bounded up the steep slope above the den until she reached a particularly smooth granite boulder and set the pup down there. The fuzzy little black wolf looked down in puzzlement, used to jagged ledges coverd in sharp little stones and cracks that tore at pads and made them bleed. Night wrapped her thick tail over her forepaws and growled, "Run your pads over the stone. Can you feel the age-old pawprints that were worn into the rock by many years of walking over this spot?" Lusa did as she was told, and was startled when she felt her tiny paws slip into gentle dips in the stone, almost unnoticable. She nodded, feeling how perfectly her paws seemed to fit into the prints. "They were left by wolves that once lived and hunted all over these cliffs. Every day you live here, you will step into the prints of the wolves who first settled this territory. They dug out the den we live in, and hunted the same prey as we hunt now." Lusa looked up, her eyes wide with wonder. "Those wolves are gone now," Night continued, "either scattered over other territories or dead, but every night, when you look up at the moon and hear wolves howling in the distance, know that many voices once sang to the moon and stars here was well." The white female twitched her ears. "My father told me that story once," she growled. "And every time I tell it to myself, I remember him. So never forget the stories of old, Lusa. They keep our proud history as wolves alive."
"Gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come."
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