A cry of death.
Someone died not long ago,
but the cries stayed in the forest,
long time after the blood stopped running.

I learned much from my werewolf brother,
but all he knew about the woods wasn't passed on to me.
His voice was silenced before it got the chance.

And I wasn't there at the moment,
I was collecting mushrooms and found a headless body when I returned.

Days after the brutish murderer on my savior,
here was no rest.
Not even searching for the one who committed the murder,
because in the end everything die.
You have no choice there,
live on or fade away is the way to live there.

Never did I consider too go back to my own.
I dismissed it from my mind before I truly considered it.
But the humans knew that I was there.
Maybe they had heard me as I struggled to hunt for myself,
Or maybe the tales of my werewolf brother's deeds had spread to those parts.

They called my name,
hoping I would reveal myself in joy of hearing human voices.

Clad in fur from hunted animals,
I kept on there.
Waiting and waiting.
For what I did not know.

I was supposed to hate them,
I was human like them and humans hate.
But the balance in the world kept the hate at bay.
I wasn't really a human was I?
They never considered me as one,
so why was I thinking that I was like them?

"Look at them,"
my werewolf brother had said once when they had gone up to our den.
"They are slow.
All humans are slow both in mind and body.
You can't teach a human to be fast.
They need time.
Rush a human and you might hurt it forever."
He looked at me as he said it,
Considering me lucky because I did not die in chains.

So I went further into the forest.
Walked until my legs could barely keep me upright.
Where I rested,
until the next morning.

I hunted,
preserved the food after best effort,
and kept going on in my quest.

I heard the werewolves when the moon hone full,
not mourning over their dead pack member.
And since I wasn't sure if they knew yet,
told the free ones the next day,
those who lived in the forest all year.
They nodded,
glad for the information I provided.

But they were not interested in this human.
Only what I smelled and the truth,
before I was dismissed.
I did not care.
I hadn't found what I was looking for,
So I did not stay anywhere more than a night,
sometimes not even then.

And then,
I found it.
At the top of a hill,
looking down at a lake.

I jumped down, flying through the air,
Landing in the cold,
cold water.

To my astonishment,
I could breathe.
I transformed from human,
to a water creature playing in the water.
Water which I had once feared was now something I loved.

Then,
a transformation of scenery and flesh.
The wolf ran under the trees knowing just the joy
and seriousness of the hunt.
Afterwards it was to play with other cubs.

And slowly
I felt the ground below me,
the smell of something new.

The trees were in bloom.
I had awoken to the spring

To the "New Green".
And a brother was waiting for me.

"Werewolf brother.
A shared life is hard when the songs are too loud.
Will you still have me in your den if I was to be like you?"

He laughed and lifted me up.
"Cub,
You will never be anything else than you.
But if you are willing to be a beast…?"

"I do not consider you as a beast,
Werewolf brother.
You are both wolf and human united in one."

"Very well then.
At next full moon you will sing and dance for life."

AN: I have to thank everyone for being so patient, and it hurts to tell that I am soon going to Munich, and I'm not sure if there is internet where I'm going. Therefore I have written an extra long piece to you. Though there is no internet, I will bring my computer so I might have tome new fics for you all when I return.

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