Rain
Fifteen year old Rain wakes up screaming. "It is just a nightmare," she whispers to herself, "It is only a dream, the past cannot hurt me anymore." Still shaking she lies down again with her hand curled on her thumping chest and tries to slow her racing heart.
Then once again she jumps in fright as a large shape moves in the not quite darkness, however, after her first moment of shock she laughs despite of herself. "Why am I being so jumpy," she thinks to herself, "After all it is only Silver". Silver, a large grey wolf, and the cause of Rain's small fright, pads silently up to her and licks her cheek in silent greeting. Rain now sufficiently calmed greets her companion in a soft whisper as well as with her mind, "Greeting silent hunter, how is the prey running?"
Rain hears Silver's answer in her mind, "The prey is bountiful and I was about to start a fat young buck until your screams scared him off."
"I am sorry Silver, "I did not mean to scare off your prey," Rain said sadly. "However with your expert hunting skills we should be able to catch a decent meal tomorrow, don't you think?" she finishes with a hint of joking sarcasm, even though what she said contains more than a hint of truth. Rain, who is partially starved, but now completely recovered from reliving such a brutal part of her past states, "Well Silver, my friend, it is late and I must rest if we are to find any food tomorrow, sweet dreams night stalker."
Silver, noticing Rain's fear scent which hangs heavy in the air, is able to piece together what occurred. Even though he no longer fears for Rain's physical safety, he is worried about his human pack mate, and decides against further hunting and settles down to watch over the camp. As he tires of watching the endless trees and fleeting shadows of the deep forest, he turns his piercing blue gaze towards his companion.
"She has grown up in more ways than one since that terrible night, she is older and wiser both physically and mentally. Even though she has always had better reflexes and senses that most humans in the village, living alone in the wilderness has developed her abilities far beyond those of a normal human. It is even stranger that she has a different feeling around her, she isn't like normal humans, she is special and I think that it will take people of her own kind to realize it. I should get rest now as she will need my protection tomorrow," Silver thinks, and slowly drifts into a deep thoughtful sleep.