Wild Child

Face to face

I look over the horizon as the sun is barely rising on a brand new day, I am in the tallest tree of the forest high in up in the mountains where no one dares to venture...except me. I live in the forest of clouds, where the trees are so high that the trees catch the clouds. This causes it to rain often but I don't really mind. I look like a girl...like a human girl, sometimes...but mostly I am a winged fox I was born in the forest and raised by the ways of the trees, wind, rocks, and animals. My fur is long and white and laced with slight blue markings. These markings carve my name.....and tell my experiences and age mostly, but most importantly they tell who I am. I am called Yě hú which means Wild-Fox in the humans way of speaking. But the name I am called by and most known as in the forest is Shadow, Shadow Sapphire Lotus. I ran through the forest feeling the gentle breeze through my wings...I let my wings catch the air and I am in the sky soaring just above the trees.

I hear howling off in the distance...I know of a wolf pack that lives on the eastern part of the forest, and on to the south is a small human village just on the edge of the forest, the north is where I nest in my tree at the very heart of the forest, and to the west I have heard that it is a dark land....where no one ever returns, human or beast so I don't dare to venture there. I circle around and go to the water hole for a drink. The water is so clear you can see the fish crystal clear as they gracefully swim gliding through the water like they were flying. I lay on my side and watch the clouds move across the sky. Suddenly there is a rustling sound in the bushes on the other side of the water hole, I get up bracing myself for danger. Four wolves walk gently out of the bushes getting a drink to satisfy their thirst. But these wolves don't look like the pack I'm used to seeing, the 1st wolf is black and has light silvery markings on his back, the 2nd and 3rd wolves are brown and red although opposite marking colors, the 4th is a golden color laced with markings of light purple, and finally the 5th wolf is young pup who is grey and laced with dark almost black-blue markings; they are stranger to me...outsider wolves.

"You there, outsiders! Where do you come from?! State your business!!" I shout at them using a strong tone. The group of wolves all look up from the watering hole and stare at me.

"You much tell us, what is the forest called....we seek the Fox of the forest called Shadow lotus!! please can you be of some help??! " asked the 1st wolf.

"Your in the right place, this is the forest of clouds!!" I tell the 1st wolf. "might you tell us where we can find Shadow lotus?!" asked the 2nd wolf. I thought for a moment, thinking what I should say to these strange wolves.