Hey Everyone! Sorry if this is kind of a short chapter, but I liked it and it gives you an idea of how our nameless she-wolf views the world of Man. Hope you like it! More soon!

~ Kat ~

Chapter 2 – Man

As the world grew cold, entering its time of sleep, I followed the herds south. The deer moved that way and so would I. I would be wary for the next few moon cycles; that, I knew. Not only would there be little food, but the south held unfamiliar dangers, creatures that walked upright and had strange sticks that shot lightning and brought death. Those sticks brought down a great buck in one strike; a truly impressive feat.

I avoided the clearings, skirting them and surveying for danger. I lay low in the day, traveling south by night. A few times, I had come across the strange tracks in the woods, the mysterious, complex, unnatural scent. I kept my distance as best I could.

This moon, I rose upon the crest of a hill. Below me lay a cluster of tiny lights, like stars glowing within the large man-caves they made of dead trees. Smoke rose from small towers upon the dwellings, smelling of autumn forest-fires. You did not cross the path of a creature that had mastered fire.

I skirted this territory of man silently, drifting through the trees like fog. I came upon an odd flat stone, black and strange smelling, running straight into the distance until it had vanished from sight. They tamed the elements, these creatures.

Dashing over the stone, I continued into the safe tree cover, going on my way.

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