Long Way Home #Wattys2016

Chapter 5

Emilina POV

I can feel the air changing again, just like last time I saw my mother in my dream. As I open my eyes, the first thing I notice is that I'm not in that room. I'm actually in the woods, but it doesn't feel real. I hear someone crying but I can't move, fore there is a wolf laying on me. I notice the fur first, its midnight black even darker than Kamama's wolf, but I'm not scared. It raises it massive head off me and I see its eyes, so pure and trusting. That's when I notice it is My Paul.

"Oh my...what have I done? Paul, I am so sorry I don't know what I did but I promise we can fix this. Please, please, please don't be mad at me..." I beg him, as he looks me in the eyes. "I don't even know if you can understand me or not...your mother and father are going to hate me."

I started crying, the tears just pouring out. He nuzzled my cheek and "kissed" it, more like licked it but that's a wolf kiss. My crying started to slow down as I realized what he just did.

"So you're not mad at me?" I asked. He shook his head so hard his whole body shook. I couldn't help not laugh as he "kissed" me again.

"Someone was crying, we have to find them encase there hurt." I stated aloud.

"You don't have to speak out loud, just think talk to me I can hear you just fine." I heard Paul's voice in my head. I was very surprised by that.

"Can all shifters talk in our minds?" I asked with my thoughts.

Before he could answer he was on his feet growling at something besides us. I try to get up and look but he sits on me, literally sits on top of me.

"GET OFF ME!" I scream in my head.

"Stay still, something is here." he replies.

I catch a smell so bad I almost lost my dinner, but there was something else with it. I finally get out from under him and freeze in my spot. My father is looking straight at me, holding my mother's body in his arms.

"Why? Why? Why her, why not me?" he cried out to the sky.

I start to reach for him but stop when I see my mother's head turn. Her white dead eyes look at me as she says one-word "Run".

It was so low I could barely hear her. I wake up screaming waking everyone up in the tepee. I feel Paul pick me up, holding me close to his chest as I start to cry again. Then I sense someone else close, I'm confused so I open my eyes. Wyatt is standing over us with major confused look on his face.

I push back from Paul's chest and think talk to him. "I don't know how this works or if you can hear me. My brother needs me right now, as I need him."

He nods once and his arms relaxed but still holding me. I look up at Wyatt and hold my hands up to him, he pulls me up gentle.

"How did you know you could do that?" Paul asks with much wonderment in his voice. I didn't know how to answer him, so I just looked at my feet.

"What did she do?" Wyatt asked him. I could feel everyone's eyes on me and I tried to bury my face in my brother's chest.

"I can talk to him in his head." I said into his chest. I finally pull away from him. "I need to talk with you, it's about my dreams, and they have to do with mom and dad." I tell Wyatt.

I asked Paul and Kamama to get their father's because I felt they needed to hear it also. I am so scared something is wrong with me as I tell them about my dreams. I did not say that mother changed into a panther because I still had questions about that.