"I've been really busy doing stuff with the Pack. We've had to run some extra patrols over the last few weeks." Seth said calmly.
"Why? Is something wrong around the reservation?" I asked, feeling a bit concerned now.
"Nothing that you need to worry about. Just smelled something awful that we wanted to make sure didn't turn out to be something bad." Seth explained.
I accepted this. I knew that if it were something very serious then Seth would tell me no matter what. I know he worries about me, but I worry more about him than I do myself. Seth just seemed more or less tired than anything else at the moment. So my number one concern was getting him back to sleep. I tried pulling him over to lay his head on my stomach.
He willing laid himself down across the couch. He faced towards the TV as he did. I started rubbing his hair as we continued to watch the next movie that was coming on. Half the night we spent there on the couch. Luckily neither of us had to go to school tomorrow and we could stay here all night if we wanted to.
We both had eventually fallen asleep. My mother had woken us up to tell us to go back to bed. She saw how exhausted we both were and tried to hide her concern from us. It worked for Seth, but I knew my mother too well to know what she was really thinking.
We moved back to bed after we cleaned up our mess. It was nice to have some time to sleep and know that we have plenty of time over the next few days to spend with each other. Although that night I had a really strange and upsetting dream.
I was sitting out in my parent's yard. It was a beautiful day. One of those days when you know everything is going to be calm and peaceful. I happened to notice that everything was too quiet though. I could only hear a breeze and the faint sound of running water.
Suddenly I notice something shining by the edge of the woods. It is almost blinding. Like a thousand tiny diamonds shining at me. I stood up and walked over to the object. Before I could even get halfway there, a big wolf jumped between me and the object. I could only identify the wolf to be Seth.
He was growling at whatever was in front of him. It frightened me to think he was protecting me from something dangerous. I couldn't think of anything that was that dangerous that he would need to protect me from. When the figure moved back into the woods, I noticed what it was. It was the red-headed woman from the cliffs. I saw fear in her eyes. Then anger. She lunged towards Seth. I jumped between them to try and stop her. She made it to Seth before I could it though. Then I woke up screaming.