The Heart of the Lone Wolf
“The Wolf whimpered from his churning stomach and swallowed his retch. He blew snuf fles through his nose. He was lying on his side.
The trees hid him from the men working the fields. But he wasn’t so deep in the woods he’d miss the sunrise. Blinking slowly, he pulled himself up and shook his head to stay awake.
He never liked to fall asleep before daybreak. The chaos of his memories tore him apart. While he slept, the joyous times in his life as a man intertwined with the misery of being trappe...d in the body of a wolf. He never knew whether to relax in the sweet dreams of his boyhood, reliving those times when his grandfather taught him to forage, or force himself awake from a nightmare of digging amongst stench and compost, an animal desperate for something to eat. In his sleep, he would be a youth cooking for their guests while the Bard told stories; then a pack of wolves bared their teeth and growled at him when he came near. He would be a young man traveling with a caravan of nomads; then he fled from men raising their ri fles to shoot at him, terror making his limbs nimble.MoreLess
The trees hid him from the men working the fields. But he wasn’t so deep in the woods he’d miss the sunrise. Blinking slowly, he pulled himself up and shook his head to stay awake.
He never liked to fall asleep before daybreak. The chaos of his memories tore him apart. While he slept, the joyous times in his life as a man intertwined with the misery of being trappe...d in the body of a wolf. He never knew whether to relax in the sweet dreams of his boyhood, reliving those times when his grandfather taught him to forage, or force himself awake from a nightmare of digging amongst stench and compost, an animal desperate for something to eat. In his sleep, he would be a youth cooking for their guests while the Bard told stories; then a pack of wolves bared their teeth and growled at him when he came near. He would be a young man traveling with a caravan of nomads; then he fled from men raising their ri fles to shoot at him, terror making his limbs nimble.MoreLess
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