Awooo! Aroo! Suddenly, constant cries filled the air. Elanor started looking to the sky, confused. "Dont be scared" Mentis chuckled. Elanor looked at him, then back to the skies as it continued. Mentis then started to flap his wings. "Lets observe!" He said, starting to flap away. Elanor then followed Mentis. "Wait!" She cries. After a bit, the two get to a big pine tree, flourishing with leaves. Elanor marveled at the stature of the huge tree. Shes seen big trees, but this was positively gigantic. "Hey!" Mentis whispered to her, breaking her stare. He was pirched in the tree, looking down at her. "Stay quiet and look." Elanor then soflty rushed to the base of the tree and slowly looked over. "Wolves?" She whispered to Mentis. Mentis nodded, then quietly flapped down next to her side. "Lupus" he said "and Lupa." The wolves all sat around each other. A small group of fifteen or so, and only a few were howling. Precisely three. Howl after howl, they cease turn to the rest. The middle wolf stepped out in front of the three. "Lets celebrate!" He said. The wolf had dark colored fur with granite eyes. From his mid level voice, you could tell that he was still quite young. The light gray furred wolf on his left was a bit smaller but she still looked as eager as him with a big smile on her face. The wolf to his right, a much older looking one, stepped out before everyone. "Everyone!" He yelled with his raspy voice "Thank you all for helping us fend off the monsters! You few brave ones are why the entire pack is in one peice today!" He looks to the younger wolf, and back to the rest. "Now, my son has preposed, in celebration. In honor of he soon taking over position as Alpha, we hunt tonight! What you kill, you dont have to share!" Every wolf howled in excitement. yipping and all in glorification. "All at the ready!" At a moments instance, every wolf fluently, but harshly got in a line. "Vulpes" Mentis says with worry in his throat "I think its time we left"
"Youre telling me" Elanor puts her head down and Mantis climbs on. Elanor starts running, leaving the tree in the distance. Suddenly one last loud howl is let out, and the wolves go flying. Mentis looks back to see eyes glowing, gaining on them. "Go straght! We can hide from the hunt! I have a place of refuge!" "Fine! if you fall, you die, got it?!" "No need to repeat! Now go!" Elanor stayed into a steady run, looking back to see them getting closer and closer. Her heart starts to race in fear. As she looks back, she passes a small doe, looking into the distance. Suddenly its bit in the neck and slaughtered. Mentis notices Elanor. "Forget it! Its the way of life, unfortunately! " Mentis turns his head to the left and streches out his wing "This way, I predict!" Elanor then starts sprinting fast. As they went one way, the wolves went straight on. Mentis looks straight on. "There! The cave!" Elanor uses the last of her energy to get towards the cave closer and closer. Finally, she pounces into the cave face first, hitting the floor and having Mentis flying off forward. As she looks up, she sees what seems like a million eyes looking at her. "Vulpes Is friendly" Mentis says recovering "Hello. Can I come in?" Every owl in the cave frose. Elanor got up and slowly turned. It was the young wolf from earlier. "I followed you." "Get out!" Elanor yelled. She snarled at the young wolf. He starts moving forward. "I said leave!" Elanor then dashes for the wolf and bites his leg. The wolf gives a loud yelp and falls to the floor. Elanor looks down at him "Move, and I bite out your eye!" "Hey, hey, you can trust me. Im not gonna eat you" "Oh really? Prove it." The wolf staggers to his legs and looks at Elanor. "Well?" she says. The wolf then licks Elanor's face a few times. "You should learn not to judge, fox." Elanor growls at him. The wolf sits and looks around the back of the small cave. "Wow" He says in astonishment."Theres a lot of you, but I thought owls lived in trees." "What do you want? To eat us?" A small owl yells. "Im friendly." The wolf answers. He walks to the small owl and everyone cowers out of the way. He then licks the owl as well. The small owl stares at the wolf. "You see?" the wolf asks. Mentis hops over, in front of the wolf. "Who are you?" "Cor" the wolf says. "My name is Cor." Howls start coming in the wind. Cor looks out of the mouth of the cave and springs to his feet. "Im going to get the rest away from here, stay out of the way" "What will you do?" Elanor asks "Im going to do my Night Song." Cor says. He leaps out of the cave, crouches wih his head down, and lets out a strong lingering howl with all of his strength. It was such a lovely sound that resonated off of the cave walls. Another comes from the distance. In what seemed like no time at all, Cor runs the other way and leads the rest running away from the cave. Elanor looks out of the mouth of the cave to see them running steadfast past them all. Soon they were in the distance, and she felt a sense of relif as the howling was too far to hear.
