. WOLF (Extract - 3)
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A number of lunar circles had passed.
I had left the crowd to be with alone with my thoughts.
Tossing fuel onto the small fire allowed a small warmth of comfort, for although the construction of my lee gave a degree of shelter from the heavy breeze of wind, the years had nevertheless taken their toll, and found their way into my aged bones, and the injuries previously received gave me recollections - and pangs of memory.
A distant but steady sound pricked my ears, and my eyes were drawn upwards.
I saw the fireball of light, radiant against the vast, black sky and bright red trail of the passing was one of recorded lore.
Heralded as an omen, of doom and despair - I felt the tingle of sensitive alert.
I held great store in the passing of tales- for there is always truth interwind within the messages which our forebearers pass on. I had my own sense of meaning with them. - for nothing is as simple and straight-forward as a tale of either his, or her story.
I set more store in my instincts than calculation of intelligence.
This had been my guide throughout my time of life, for I had found an understanding of nature that many would say different to the accepted belief, - but it was one that I was the most comfortable with.
I sensed movement, the murmuring of voices close by to me.
As the volume of noise increased and neared, I wondered why they could not leave me with my thoughts and self-exiled choice of company.
I was about to be, - enlightened.

