Sorry its taken a few days for a new chapter. Christmas break has been busy and filled with family arguments and over eating. I hope everyone has had a great christmas and if you don't celebrate I hope you have a great break during the closing of 2020, Cant wait to welcome in 2021.

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Chapter 5

Isabella POV

Mother had taught me many things about the forest, she taught me that every living thing possess a type of energy one that differentiates from a living being to that of a dormant organism. She said each being has a place and a purpose and one cannot be without the other, I didn't understand what she meant by that I was a seedling who was breathed into life by energy so does it not then mean we are a by product of another as opposed to a being with a purpose?

I was young in mind and experience she had told me, "you are for all intends and purposes a child who needs to learn much and know much more. For with knowledge comes power, but with power comes responsibility, and I so pray child that you rise to the challenge for what is to come ahead will need so much more than hope" I headed her words as ominous and forlorn as they were, I felt deep within myself that it was as much a warning as it was a passing thought.

I spent many days beneath the shade of the willow listening to her stories of all that lived within her home and all those who slumbered beneath her earth. I heard a howl so great that I covered my ears from the ringing I felt reverberate in the shell of my ears "Willow, I felt you waken is there something a miss with in the forest" I could not tell where the voice was coming from for there was no one in the clearing but me and the willow. I looked to the rustling bushes and was frightened for a I felt a great power coming towards us, I stood and climbed a branch of the willow and nestled myself against her trunk "I am scared mother what is coming?" I felt her laughter through our link "Do not fear child for he is a friend as old as time and will harm not a hair on your head" It did not make me relax any less but I did cling less to the trunk of the tree.

From the bushes sprung a wolf with russet red fur and liquid amber eyes and a large snout, that I almost miss took for a horse but even then he was much larger than any horse I had seen before, especially since learning of all who dwelled in the willows home.

He came closer and lowered himself on his haunches and bowed low with his snout touching the earth "It is with great joy that I am in the presence of our creator and our mother, I am honoured to be in your presence"

"Rise old friend, thank you for coming I am in need of your guidance and your help" Mother said

"How can I be of service" said a low timbered voice

"I have created life and watched as my children took shape and left there prints along this earth but I grow weary and tired and I have watched and waited for another to take my place" Mother said. I did not understand, was she not going to be with me to teach me all I needed to know?

"what do you mean mother" I shouted as I landed on the base of the trunk and furiously glared at her. How dare she give me life than leave me alone. I heard a growl to my right " do not speak to Mother willow with such disrespect"

"Peace dear one, she is as old as the forest I have woken her from her slumber. She will learn much more with your help" mother said. I looked to my right as the wolf held my gaze "forgive me, I meant no offence" said the russet wolf. "I have been without my family for so long that even the stars were as new as a sunrise, I have lived so long but I have become complacent and my strength has waned from weakness to weakness and I fear my spirit will soon become but mist in the forest and dew drops on the leaves, quickly taken as the day continues" what did she mean.

"Are you dying mother" I had contemplated this as she was always so cryptic and elusive, when I became curious as to the reasoning for all the things she was teaching me. She was silent for a time "All things have an end child for where would one find accomplishment or value in things if an end was not near. All life has a part to play in this never ending cycle and mine is nearing completion"

I looked to the wolf as we both heard what mother had said "Let us sit a while as I tell you a story of how I came to be"

"I was one of many stars breathed into being when this earth took shape. We were a conscious entity with all the knowledge of the universe, My brothers and sisters became guardians of other planets and we learned a great many things from our Mother nebula and saw fit to ensure equality and care were maintained by the children of each planet. We whispered to small flowers and nurtured there growth, we guided animals into all walks and journeys. When Man began to walk the earth we were a whisper in the rain a caress in the chill of winter and a nudge during summer days. All in the hopes that life was fair and just but all with the purpose of ensuring life thrived" As mother spoke it was like the forest became still and quite and all movement had ceased on the turning of each word mother spoke.

"My brothers and sisters were so full of joy, for everything was new and wondrous and never a time did we feel such loneliness and fear until one day. An entity had come to us with emotions so foreign and unknown, that we knew not that this encounter should have been our very first sign of danger and an ending so brutal that not even our mother could have foreseen"

The red wolf beside me began to tense and shake with barely concealed rage "Is this entity the very being that taints this forest with such darkness, It has been seeping into the children creating unease and wariness and fear. There is but a dim light that remains here" "Yes dear one what you feel is becoming stronger and I am growing weaker as the days are nearing end. The earth shivers and at times it will lead to tremors and soon will release the darkness hidden below.

I was full of fear and anxiety "Mother you must tell us more" I had said as strongly as i could but the quake in my voice was not hard to miss.

"I had fallen in love eons ago and it would prove to be my downfall" I was unsure what she meant by love but knew i would learn its meaning and it will shape wether i want love or to never know or feel it for myself.

Author Note: There will be more of Isabella story before we go back to the present.