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An Unusual Pair
A faint fog was descending on Cascade. Slowly, the hazy mist faded into a jungle. It contained the usual noises, yet something was odd about this jungle. Though they could be heard, no animals could be seen; not even so much as a bird.
Then a twig cracked and not one, but two animals appeared; a panther and a wolf. A very unusual pair and yet, in a strange way, they seemed to go together. They walked quietly side by side, through the jungle. Together. Day and night, through triumph and tragedy, through life and perhaps even through death. An unusual pair and yet the perfect pair.
And then, the haze was back and the jungle disappeared. Almost as if it had all been imagined. And perhaps it had. A panther and a wolf together? Preposterous! Almost as preposterous as a new age hippie anthropologist and a straight laced military detective being friends... But, as I said, perhaps it had never been. After all, who ever heard of a jungle in the middle of downtown Cascade?
All was quiet now, as two figures stood on a balcony silhouetted against the moonlight. Side by side. One tall, one short. An unusual pair. Almost as unusual as the previous pair. But, there hadn't been a previous pair since as I said it could never have happened. In back of the them were two shadows. One in the shape of a jaguar and the other in that of a wolf. However, it could have simply been a trick of the moonlight...
A faint roar of a jaguar and the howl of a wolf could be heard shattering the silence. Then again maybe it had happened after all....
