I suppose there's just something about the way it happened that makes it not seem as bad as it was supposed to be. Maybe that makes me a hypocrite, or maybe it just makes me stupid, but that's the way I see it now.
It's been three weeks since he finally found me in the woods, and still I remember the smells and the way the dark danced with the moonlight filtering through the trees. The heady scent of fucking in the air, and the horribly strong musk of someone I hadn't met and will probably never know completely. But the urges have passed ... I guess that means what it's supposed to mean. Whether or not that's a good thing remains to be seen.
It all started about a month ago, I guess. I'm alone now. There are parts of me that despise this, and there are parts of me that relish every facet of a lonely existence. I hunt by myself, I cook for myself (or sometimes, I still eat them raw), and I have to deal with the passing seasons by myself.
I thought I'd kept myself away from every possible male contact I could possibly come up against, but I was wrong. I knew when he began tracking me. I could see his shadow just at the edge of the woods; smelling my scent, pissing on the trunk of a tree to remember where I was. I had the urge to mate, but I did not have the inclination to do so. But they always come, they always seem to catch the scent of me even on the slightest breeze. So I did the only thing I thought plausible at the time: I fled deeper into the woods and away from my home.
But he tracked me. And now that his game was up, he knew that I knew he was following me, and I guess he felt no reason to hide it anymore. I could hear him in the dark every night, closer and closer to where I camped. I started to prepare myself ... I fashioned weapons out of anything I could find. Even in some part of me, though, I knew he was much stronger than I. What could I do even if I could defend myself properly? Even then, the responses of my own body would betray me, and I knew it.
The night he caught up with me, I certainly wasn't expecting it. I was cooking recently captured prey over the open fire, and simply became prey of another sort in my ignorance.
He burst into the clearing, and before I knew it he had me toppled over the log I'd been sitting on, the sharpened point of a spear at the base of my throat. After the momentary shock, I struggled to free myself from his grip, to no avail. I finally ceased my movements, peering up to my follower for the first time with an indignant snarl.
"Shhhhh," he simply snarled back, one finger pressed to his lips.
"Get the fuck off of me, you incredulous cur!" I snarled again, snapping at his face with my teeth, and got a slap on my nose for my trouble.