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Β© 4-09-03
It was autumn, the year we moved. Autumn was always a good time for change. The night was starless, with only a small crescent moon for light. The large wolf watched from high atop his hill. He had sent the call out in early spring. It was time to leave this place of man. Man the destroyer of all things not understood. They would now leave him to his own devices. They would seek a safer, stronger, saner place.
By twoβs they filtered into the meadow, sheltered by the huge ages old trees, of the forest. Here they would wait for the appointed time. They would eat, play, and replenish their energy for the trip ahead. The future of their world depended on the success of the days ahead.
Technology had begun to rule. People believed in the new magic of machines and not in the old ways. The gods, the elves, the fairies, the leprechaun, the gnome, the ogre and yes even Santa Claus were matters of laughter. The darker things of nature were now movies and scary masks for children to wear on Halloween.
No more devils no vampires, no ghosts, or werewolves, no dragons. All of those were just myths to scare your children around a summer campfire. All explainable as normal things that happened in nature or were the result of something new called chemical contamination.
Wolf, stood on the top of the highest hill in his domain, watching the gathering of the wolf clans. Never before in their ages old history had so many gathered. Soon they would have to move on. Man had come too close to their dens, and it was getting harder and harder to hide. He had hunted here forever and his parents, and grandparents before him had done the same. It was night and the land was his and he was sad.
Man did not understand changelings and so he feared them. The legend of the werewolf was strong. They, who did not kill or eat humans, had no way to convince a mob that they were gentle loving creatures. He knew when they came it would be a mob united in fear, with only one desire burn them, kill them, drive them into extinction. Therefore, he had sent out the call. Now throughout the nation in secluded meadows and forests, they prepared to travel to a new land one where they could be safe to grow and prosper in peace.
He felt her at his side before he scented her. She was smart and loyal no one could ask for a better mate. They had six good healthy cubs between them. As head of the pack, he also fathered other young with the female wolves, who desired no permanent mate. She understood the need and often mothered them along with her own. She rubbed against him pushing him with her nose.
He growled and she lay beneath him belly up stretching her teeth in that smile he knew so well. He breathed in deeply and shook himself. Suddenly naked in the cooling night he stood human, and his cock was rampart with longing for his lady wife.
He held out his hand, she shimmered in the pale light and stood. Tall, thin, long silver hair flowing down to the ground. She was as beautiful as the day they had wed. Around her neck in either form, she always wore a witch charmed thin silver collar. He had put it on her on their wedding day. As long as she wore it, only he could call her into human form. Someday he had whispered that day; it might be your saving my lady mate. She as is all things obeyed him, but he knew it chafed her to think when most he needed her skills; it might keep her mute and unavailable. She waved her hand, and before them was a deep leafy bed with animal skin blankets to keep away the cold.