Thorn did not seem happy with that answer, but that was the best answer he was going to get from me. Rose elbowed him in the side and let loose a soft grow and Thorn returned it. “Now, now there is no need for bickering. I just do not wish to dispel my tale upon your ears.” I said sternly. I was not about to tell my life’s story  to two pups such as these. They continued to ask their questions and I answer them with as much information as I was willing to give. After their endless questions I told them it was time they went to sleep and heal, especially Thorn. As they drifted off to sleep I went and buried the bones of their meal and I went to get me something to eat.
I found a small mule deer and ate it. It’s flesh was warm on this cold night and stream rose from its body as I fed. After I finished, I retrieved my staff from a near by tree and went back to my cave. I did not go in, but stayed out side of the entrance. The snow continued to fall and the night was quite and peaceful. Am I really that horrible that parents would tell tales of me to frighten their pups? The answer was yes I was that horrible. I was a monster as far as they were concerned and that was just fine with me. All wolf kind should stay away from me I am unpredictable, unstable. A danger to be around, but Rose and Thorn seemed to be at ease with me. I must have a heart underneath all of these tales of my fierceness. The question was, was I willing to let that heart come though. The answer to this question was no.
The next morning as the bright circle rose from it sleep across the heavens. Rose and Thorn were overjoyed to see that I had stayed. I wanted to say that this was my home and I was not going to give it up for anything  even to two pups such as yourselves, but I didn’t, I remained very civil. They got up and stretched and thanked me for my hospitality and for healing Thorn’s wounds.
“Would you please come with us and meet our father and mother and the rest of our pack? They will be very pleased to meet the one who saved us and treated us so kindly. Won’t you come? Please come, please.” I was taken off guard by Rose’s request. I thought about it for a moment and thought better of it. “I am sorry young one, but I cannot accompany you to your pack. I don’t take well with others of our kind.” I told her. Of course, what I said was a very large understatement. It was not that I did not take well to others, it was that others did not take well to me. It is better that others stay away from me. I could cause them serious trouble, and I do not wish to bring that down upon anyone. No matter how much their little tales of me say. I would sooner be left along.
I felt Rose and Thorn come towards me, crawling. I looked up in surprise to see the expressions on their faces. They were being controlled. I sat and watched then for a moment. They continued to come, they continued to craw towards me with blank expressions on their faces. Then as they got closer their faces contorted into faces that you would see a demon of the underworld have. Then a voice I knew very well spilled out of their mouths. The voice of the sorceries Morhan. “ You seem to have made some friends Adelfos Claw.”
Her voice was that of an old wolf or white with ice blue eyes. I knew her very well, she was the one who bit me. I will never forget her coming towards me. She came towards me with a seductive smile and  liquid grace. I was scared since less. When she bit me she said in that voice that could render any wolf she chose into a loyal dog. She told me, “You are mine now Adelfos forever and always.” She bit me and as I changed she watched me with her ice blue eyes and a smile on her snow white face, her silver white hair blowing in the wind, she had many charms and braids in her hair that made soft noises in the wind. She wore many bracelets and had a feathered ear ring in her left ear. As she sat on a rock her deer skin loincloth flapped in the breeze, in her right clawed paw she held a staff mush like mine but it had incantations on it for great and powerful evils. On top of her staff was a green emerald that glowed in the moonlit clearing. I was still thrashing and convulsing on the ground at her feet, it hurt so badly, nothing in the world could compare to the pain I was in when I changed forever into what I am now.
I managed to sit on my rear and examine myself, I was horrified. My hands were now clawed and my shin now had bronze and red fur, my face that had been human now had a muzzle of a wolf on it. “No, this cannot be I am human, not wolf human turn me back you wretch.” I said and Morhan just laughed at me with that mystical laugh. “You are no longer human, Adelfos you are wolf, and you are mine.” She stood and came towards me I scrabbled to my feet but, I fell no use to these clawed feet of mine. She came closer and kneeled before me with her staff in the crook of her arm and she reached for me. I tried to move away but I could not, she reached and stroked my face with her clawed hand and smiled. “You are a beautiful one. I am happy that you stumbled upon me this full moon night.” She told me still stoking my face. I looked up at her with my now amber eyes and cursed her. She just smiled and continued to look over my body. I could feel her eyes burning trails in my fur. She stood and moved her hand in an upward motion and I got to my feet. She went behind me and inspected my back side and ran her claws over my shoulders and spine, then she came back around to my front and ran her paws over my chest and abdomen. She was shorter than me by 3 inches but she could still reach every thing. She brought her head up to mine and rubbed her face to mine and scented my hair. I stood there stiff as a stone and let her continue her continue her search of my new body that she seemed to be impressed about and that worried me very much.