THE WOLF MAN i

THE WOLF MAN i

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The year was 1971, and I was travelling in Communist Romania, then ruled by the dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu. My nerves were already bad, following an incident during the day, when a marketplace I had been visiting was surrounded by security men, and everyone was lined up and required to show their papers and ID documentation. Some people were arrested and carted off in lorries.That evening, I arrived in the town of Suceava, and, as was obligatory, had to go to the police station to register, and to be told where I would be staying (there were no hotels for foreigners, you were just billeted in a house, with local people).On this occasion, though, the police told me I would be staying in a forest camp site, about five miles out of town. I took the bus out there and it was getting dark, as I arrived. There about 50 little, pointy-roofed huts, dotted among the trees, and no one else staying there. The man at the reception cabin gave me a very large padlock, and made it clear that I should lock my door from the inside. When I asked why, he just made teeth-baring, growling noises, and mimicked what I presumed were claw-pouncing actions of wild animals.I was already frightened, and at about one in the morning, I
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BOOK ONE: Having enough courage to run through the woods and away from the people who convinced me they were saving me was not how I believed I'd spend my day. Yet, there I went escaping from the only place I knew existed in the world. Being held captive was too much for me, especially when these people wouldn't tell me who they were or even who I was. The first moment in my life I recall very clearly. I awoke in a dark room, with recollection of everything that happened in the world except for one thing. I had no memory of myself existing, I didn't know where I was or why these men kept me from leaving. Days after I first woke I asked plenty of questions, and yet none of them were answered. The only thing I learned was that I was not allowed outside because the woods heald the most powerful magic on the planet, the most dangerous magic. It was more than just bad men and curiosity about the forest that got me to leave, it was a pull towards something; towards magic. Once I was in the forest turning back was never an option, so I put it in my head that I'd keep walking until I found a civilization or a nice paved road that would lead to safety. But that never happened because the forest has a force living through it. Believing that the forest held something strange was the easy part but experiencing it myself was something totally different. I didn't expect anything normal but I didn't expect to be completly engulfed into the forest. I was led by an unknown presence that made me truly believe it was a living being, and in fact it is. I was innocent then, but now I know that anything can be hidden under a small platform in the woods with a secret bigger than the world itself. I was given life that day, until it all ended months later; the day I took my last breath.

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