by LoneShadowCat » Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:42 pm
As he turned though he spotted a boy watching him from the trees, it was the same one he had first seen on the island with Dream and Freedom. But after a moment he vanished back into the shadows.
War blinked and shook his head before glancing back at the house, seeing none of the humans there he shifted and ran off into the trees. But someone had been watching then, little Angel stood at the curtained window watchign him shift and vanish.
Sereval days passed and he avoided the humans as more of them moved in from over the mountains, expanding the town and cutting back the trees as they did so. War watched all this as he roamed the forest each day, sometimes leaving icy pawprints behind, but he seemed to avoid everyone even the other weres.
One day about a year later he sat in a tree watching as that boy approached Angel, War now noticed that he smelled of wolf...but something was off.
War was to far away to hear what the boy was saying but Ryan didn't seem to trust him. Finally War caught one word, probably the boy's name "Keith"
The memories skipped forward again as War blinked but the ice had stopped again.
The day Angel's mother died....that day War had been hiding in the trees watching the family as usual. Two days before Dream and Freedom had come out of the forest in there human forms and played with Ryan and Angel. But this day the family had no visitors except that boy Keith eariler. War watched silently as their mom came out on the back porch to read, she often did this just before sunset but this night a wolf raged out of the trees and attacked her. By scent alone War knew it was Keith but at that moment he left, frightened by the wolf's display of violence.
Days passed after that, Ryan and his father came out to the forest everyday to hunt for the wolf but had no luck. Then War watched as Ryan began to drift away, the sadness of this mother's death causing him to take it out on Angel as the school year drifted closer.