CHAPTER 5
He ran through the forest, his mother urging him for greater speed. His father was still in the village, fighting. This war cost many lives, including his only sister and brother.
His legs ached and he slowed.
"You must keep running," his mother, Mnnruff, said urgently.
"But I'm tired," complained Ruff.
"You must keep running, or they may catch us," said Mnnruff, while pushing her son along.
There was a large explosion two hundred yards behind them. That gave Ruff a surge of energy.
Mother and son ran on through the thick forest. Ruff would sometimes run on all fours and kept going.
They had ran for five hours and stopped to rest at a checkpoint where a few others came and met.
"You made it," said a Wolfonian, it was Grru, a family friend. He walked over to Mnnruff and hugged her; a Wolfonian hug is done by having each other rest their head on each other's shoulder. Then he lifted his massive head off of Mnnruff's shoulder and went to Ruff and gave a lick on his head.
"We were starting to get worried about both of you," said Grru, "we thought that both of you have been captured."
"Luckily, we escaped," said Mnnruff.
"How rude of me, you two must be tired. My wife and I set up camp so you both could share our tent." Grru led Ruff and Mnnruff to their tent, which looked similar to all the other tents at the campsite. Rnn, Grru's wife, welcomed them in. Ruff smelled a freshly killed animal coming from the back of the tent, his mouth watered. He and his mother went to the side and sat down. Rnn came over with a slab of meat Ruff had smelled. She gave a piece of the meat to Ruff and the other piece to Mnnruff. Ruff took the meat and chewed it enough to swallow, then he swallowed it. The whole piece.
Ruff then remembered his manners. "Thank you, Rnn."
Rnn smiled her approval. "Your welcome."
Ruff woke up and was confused. Where's the tent? Where's Mnnruff? He thought. Then he remembered that he was in Sickbay on the Enterprise, away from the war eleven years ago on Wolfonia. All that had been a dream, but it had happened.
Ruff got off the bed, feeling well rested and better. He heard walking down the hallway coming to Sickbay. The door opened. It was a nurse that was taking care of Sickbay while Doctor Crusher was gone.
"Oh. Hello Mr. Wolf," said the nurse, "it looks like you have recovered, but I need to scan you just incase."
The nurse walked over to Ruff with a Tricorder and scanned him.
"It looks like your okay," the nurse said while she looked at the scanning results. "You could go back to duty now."
"Thank you," said Ruff, and he left the Sickbay and went to the Bridge.
Ruff entered the Bridge from the Turbolift and saw the view screen. On the view screen was a construction and Worf. Ruff has seen this building before, about eleven years ago during the war that only Wolfonians and the exiles knew about.
Ruff stared at the screen and shivered. He walked down the ramp and to the captain.
Picard noticed Ruff and said, "I see you feel better Mr. Wolf."
"We must leave here at once," Ruff said gravely.
Picard looked quizzically at Ruff. "Why?"
"I cannot say, but it is dangerous. We must leave immediately."
"Ensign Wolf, an away team has been beamed down and are investigating the building. Further more, you have not given me a good reason to stay away."
Ruff just stood there, as if frozen in place, fighting within himself whether or not to tell the greatest secret of his world to strangers. This is ridiculous! Thought Ruff, my loyalty goes first to my people. I should not be asking these questions to myself. The secret is to be kept to Wolfonians, and will stay that way.
"Sorry sir," Ruff said, "I must have confused myself."
Ruff went to navigation and sat down, and then he just stared at the screen.
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