The Shadow of the Wolf (1997)
“We were in the woods gathering acorns. I wanted them for Icarus. Fawn was gathering them for her mother, who would pound them into flour. Fawn and I tried to catch tumbling oak leaves. They were the very last leaves to fall from the trees. We would reach for a leaf, sure that this time we would catch it. We never did. Moving a hand through the air made the light leaf change direction. The leaf floated out of reach. We might as well have tried to catch a falling star.
We were laughing at how foo...lish we looked when we heard a strange sound, like a child whining. We stood perfectly still. The cry came again, this time like a howl. It sounded close by. We looked all around us. Then we saw, almost hidden by leaves, a struggling animal. Its leg was caught in the steel jaws of a trap.
“It’s a dog!” I said.
“No,” Fawn said. “It is a wolf. And the trap has my father’s trap mark on it. We must find a log and kill the wolf.”
I was horrified. “You can’t do that! We have to let it go.”MoreLess
We were laughing at how foo...lish we looked when we heard a strange sound, like a child whining. We stood perfectly still. The cry came again, this time like a howl. It sounded close by. We looked all around us. Then we saw, almost hidden by leaves, a struggling animal. Its leg was caught in the steel jaws of a trap.
“It’s a dog!” I said.
“No,” Fawn said. “It is a wolf. And the trap has my father’s trap mark on it. We must find a log and kill the wolf.”
I was horrified. “You can’t do that! We have to let it go.”MoreLess
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