Heart Of The Wolf: The Spirit Awakens

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Rienea ran through the howling blizzard, desperate to get home to her hut in the forest.

She struggled through the deepening snow as the thought of her two-moon-old daughter who was waiting at home, only protected by a safety field her mother had put around her before Rienea had to go out and was hit by the snowstorm.

Rienea made it to the now snow-covered clearing where her and her daughter's hut was now swaying in the wind.

"Please still be safe... please still be safe..." Rienea whispered repeatedly as she fumbled with the lock on the door.

Suddenly, a tall pine tree near her swayed dangerously close to the rickety house and dumped a ton of snow and ice on the house and Rienea's head, burying her under many pounds of freezing snow and making the hut creak and sway under the new weight.

"Stars..." Rienea muttered, shaking the snow off of her head. She pulled her wings closer around herself and finally shoved the door open, revealing a small space with a nest in the corner.

Rienea rushed into the hut, not bothering to close the door behind her, and began to shove aside talonfuls of straw and leaves from the nest. Soon, a tiny blue, purple, and pink Spirit Wolf was revealed sleeping in a small, hidden nook in the nest.

This Spirit Wolf had some dragonlike qualities, though. She had horns, fangs, a scaly dragon tail instead of a fluffy wolf one, and even had small, scaled wingbuds on her back.

Rienea scooped the wolf up in her arms and held her close for a moment.

"Oh, thank the stars..." she whispered, a bit shakily.

Rienea exited the house quickly with the cub held in her wings. "Oh, my little wolf... I'm so sorry..." she risked one last glance down at the Spirit Wolf before looking ahead again.

Rienea and her daughter soon came to a larger building made of stone.

She looked once more at the cub, than, as if fighting an invisible force, placed her on the doorstep. As Rienea began to walk away, she had an idea. An idea that could keep her only child safe. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, then opened them again and rushed back over to the cub. Rienea whispered something to her daughter. When she walked away again, the Spirit Wolf's dragon horns, tail, wingbuds, and fangs were gone. She looked like an ordinary Spirit Wolf now. Rienea flicked away a tear and whispered, "Stay safe." then she ran off for the last time, leaving the cub alone on the snowy doorstep.

The cub's name was Narina.