.''I am more than you think''.

-10-

Alexis' pov:

Well this is not where I imagined myself to be tonight.

I was back in the bench filed clearing but this time because I agreed to recount tales of old, the children would have the legends told to them in a few moons but since I was here the adults wanted me to do it since I was there.

Parents sat on the benches as the kid crowded around me in a circle, sitting on the ground, leaving me just a meter of free space.

"That day was the first time a cold one had been seen on our land." I started the story in a low voice, trying to somewhat interest the kids right away, the first cold one was found with Turuk and the vengeance came when Kark was here.... "Our hunter had been out in the woods when they found a man an ice, colder than the winter months, pale as the snow that would cover the world, our fighters encountered the man who seemed faster than the wind!" I zipped out of the circle for dramatic effect before coming back with a smile as the kids gasped, not loads of them having shifted or known about me in as much detail as the others. "Turuk and I got news of the cold man which lead us to him, not before having seen someone like that, equaling my speed but so different from who I was, paler then me, colder than me, out for blood of our people.... Turuk and I had the man defeated and burned at my command, my people could only be definitely killed by flames so we hopped he would be too, we hopped he was the only one of his people." I became silent as I let the tension of the kids grow. "But he wasn't." Gasps all around, it is a painful story but it made me smile how they all seemed to enjoy how I retold it, kids and adults.

"After Turuk passed we had come to believe no cold one was left, his son Karo lead to pack until his own son Kark was brought to the world, Kark was unlike his people, he didn't have the strength of his people, he couldn't run on all fours as a wolf but he was right and a leader in his blood, he was a human with a wolf heart.... Came the time where him and I were made lovers, to lead side by side with my strength and his skills, a child created by both couldn't live so a lone child was taken as ours, all was good until the cold woman showed up." Again a chorus of gasps from the kids, so deeply engrossed in my story they could never be distracted. "He went to save the people, drink them over to the island resting on the ocean while I faced the cold one, she was just like him, pale as snow and cold like ice, she was strong.... Too strong.... She was about to behead me when Kark came. as I said he was no wolf and no fighter but he had something, he had courage, the heart of a wolf.... Picking up a knife he knew he had to distract the cold one for us to win, he brought down the knife where he knew it would bleed loads. that enticed the cold one's hunger and gave me time to rip her head off her shoulders.... Unfortunately, Kark was heavily wounded, I tried to change him in what I was but he left our world that day, remembered as the first alpha having have given his life for his tribe and since then all alphas swore to the moon to keep their tribe safe from the cold ones." I gulped a little since it did hurt to retell this part of the legend.

I told a few more stories, more on my travels and the obstacles, friend and enemies I met before slipping away to my favorite place, the cliff.

I was surprised to see Max already there.

"I heard the stories through the link, I thought you'd come here." I smiled at the explanation and let her hug me and almost yelped as she picked me up and spun me around.

I yelped as he picked me up and spun me around.

I blinked confused at the flashback I saw of Kark doing the same thing on this cliff, it was a second but I clearly know what I saw.

I shook my head softly and hugged her as she set me down, I smiled softly which became a habit since I came back here.... I just wonder why I saw that flashback now of all the times it could have happened.

Max's pov:

She yelped as I packed her up and spun her around.

I hid my face against her chest as I set her down and she hugged me, confused by that flash of a different reality I guess? this is the third time this happened and from the snippets I've seen it is always at the same time in time, always where there were less trees around here with much more grass and an old looking village with stone houses, always in that era.... But why? I really need to go to the library soon or I might start to think I am going seriously insane.