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gang of friends with

who share the wild nights of full moon. Ankris saw them birth,

grow and die, since their short lives could not be compared with the

long existence of it, but not sorry, because the moments

spent with them were so full and wonderful that every second was worth

for an eternity. Wolves had accepted him as a leader, even though

was not one of them, perhaps because they were used to it, and also

by the fact that the elf had been with him almost since its

birth.

- You're a strange boy murmured Mae Shi.

- I had been told he confessed.

They locked eyes. Maybe it was the full moon, or the howling of the

wolves in the distance, or brightness in the eyes of Shi-Mae, or that nightgown as

gleamed white in the night ...

Ankris could not help it. He leaned over and kissed her.

Mae Shi stiffened at first, but then abandoned the first

kiss, awkward but full of tenderness, the young forest elf. She wrapped

with arms and fingers caressed her auburn hair, finding

surprisingly smooth.

However, when the two parted, panting, she looked with

fury.

- But how dare you! Go away from here or I'll call the guards!

Suppressing a smile, Ankris bowed to her.

- As you wish, my lady. Good night.

He climbed over the railing of a jump and disappeared into the night,

crazy with happiness. Despite the offended maiden ways had

Mae Shi said, Ankris had read in his eyes the promise of new

kisses.

He ran into the woods to meet with the wolves. With the taste of your lips

Shi-Mae still in his mouth, he led a hunt Ankris as not

remembered in that place. They found a group of deer and attacked the

copy which appeared weaker, an old female who moved with

slowly. As he ran after her, remembering eyes and that Mae Shi

kiss under the full moon, Ankris noticed something fresh yet strangely

Family ran their veins. He felt stronger, leaner, safer, and

dropped to all fours to chase prey.

And then, suddenly, came the pain.

I walked up and down, torturing, searing the bowels.

Ankris froze and yelled, but the pain was still shaking for

inside. He dropped to the ground and rolled in the grass, while a terrible thing

ate, which transformed it from the inside out, which

elf destroyed nature slowly but surely.

He rolled to the river, screaming in agony, but not the water could

relieve pain.

And that which was consumed inside finally came outside and

began to transform it out.

The skin was covered with thick auburn hair, teeth

I stretched, hands made him claws and his face

transformed into a snout.

The last thing he saw before he lost consciousness was his image in the water,

the image of a huge wolf eyes glowing like coals, full of

murderous rage.

Chapter V Impact

That night, the sorcerer later returned to his cabin. I used to go after

nightfall to collect plants needed for his potions,

concoctions and remedies. Some multiplied their property if the collected

under the moonlight.

Before entering the house knew someone was waiting hidden in the

weeds. From the corner of the eye discovered a pair of red eyes that

peering from the darkness. He could not help a quick glance at

heaven, even though he knew that the moon was not completely round

that night. He turned toward the intruder with caution.

- Ankris she called softly. Sal

The young elf left his hiding place. In the moonlight, the witch could see the

brightness, primary and brutal, in his eyes, and also found on his face,

beyond his puzzled expression, a deep footprint

suffering.

- How did you know it was me?

- I waited for a long time. Spend.

He entered the cabin. Ankris hesitated, but finally followed.

He waited while the witch lit the fire and prepared an infusion.

When they were both sitting by the fire, the witch took off the

lips to say:

- It has already started, right?

- Did you know?

The witch nodded.

- Since before you were born.

He spoke of the night he had bitten werewolves Eilai. You

recounted the conversation he'd had with his father, and how this

had finally taken the decision to let him live.

- Would have done better killing Ankris said bitterly after a

brief silence.

The sorcerer looked.

- I know you do not think well in the background. You're too young to

wanting to die.

- You do not understand, warlock. At first, when I was not yet

transformed, it was an exciting feeling. I can not explain, but

I felt full, free and invincible. But now ...

- The transformation is painful, right?

- A agony. But that's not the worst. There is a moment, you know, in that

lose the sense that your consciousness is absorbed by the animal mind,

and is ... terrible impression. You feel down, like a pit

background, and desperately looking for something to grab before

wallow in darkness. It is truly frightening. P. .. like you

forced to sleep without knowing if you're going to wake up. It's like my mind

die each time to resurrect the next day. And that moment when the

beast overcomes the elf is much worse than the pain of transformation.

Because you never know if I have defeated forever.

- How long ago did it start?

Ankris hesitated.

- I've been noticing symptoms while but did not know it was

lycanthropy until I became completely for the first time. Of

that seven months ago.

- Your parents had you not said anything?

- No.

- I guess until the last moment hoping maintained

that I had not touched.

- I narcotizaban full moon nights Ankris-expressed with

a grudge.

The witch laughed softly.

- Yes, I know. I gave them the potion they needed. But

deep down you already knew that, right? So you come to me.

- And because you told me to come to you.

- So remember ... But I can not do for you anything you do not

has already done so. I can follow suministrándote the concoction you got your

parents.

- Will it prevent me become?

- Of course not. But I will harmless until you exit the

sol.

Ankris hesitated.

- You've already killed, right? Muttered the witch.

Ankris lowered his head.

- I do not know, 'he confessed. I never remember what I do when the moon

full. But ... I heard that a large wolf has killed a

Elder in the hills north of the city. Is my pack territory, and

I have not in the group with a copy so big ...

- ... But yourself, is not it?

Ankris buried his face in his hands.

- What have I become? She whispered. Why did that happen to

me?

- I have no answer to that, Ankris. But I do know that you have a

ability to lead a fairly normal life ... if you leave the

city ​​and come back here to the ring.

The boy looked up quickly.

- Never, he said.

- Think it easy, kid. In the deep forest will be safe from

people's eyes. You will have more places to hide and we have

near me and your parents, to lend a hand if needed and justify disappearances your full moon nights. In addition, you need

periodically provide the potion.

- I do not mind coming from the city to pick it up when I

Ankris end-assured.

- You're stubborn, right? If you do not want to consider what would happen if

I discovered, receiving at least think that living in the city put in

danger to many more people. Including her.

Ankris looked up quickly.

- How do you know ...?

The wizard chuckled.

- Boy, I've been young. What else could

keep you in an environment you do not belong? I will not ask for

your girl, because it's not my business. The only thing I want

say, with sincerity ... is whether she knows it or not.

- Yet Ankris whispered softly.

- What are you going to say?

Ankris had not decided yet. Since the night of the kiss in the

balcony-the night of his first transformation, recalled the young man with a

shudder, the relationship between him and had advanced-Mae Shi

surprisingly fast to be a couple of elves. They had

followed seeing, always hidden, and yes, there had been more kisses and

more touching. Ankris had said he loved her, but she had not

answered. The boy knew what the problem was: she and her happy

blue blood. Shi-Mae could be in love too, but never

confess, because Ankris was a commoner and she was too proud. Y,

however, the boy still had the hope that, someday, all

that does not matter.

But what if Shi-Mae is learned that, last but not

recently, he was a werewolf?

- I understand, 'said the witch, correctly interpreting his

silence. But you see, Ankris, if yours with this girl goes through, she

know sooner or later. What will you do then?

- How do I know?

There was a brief silence. The sorcerer rose with a sigh and headed

one of the shelves in the cabin. Picked up from there a vial

dusty, full of a thick liquid.

- He kept it for when you came back she said. Toma. Take it. A

sip before the moon rises in the night of full moon should suffice.

I estimate that with this you have ten shots or so. Ie ten

months. When you finish, go back for more.

Ankris grabbed the bottle, relieved.

- Back-promised, and stood up to leave.

- Will not you go to see your parents?

Ankris hesitated.

- I'm not ready yet. Maybe another time. Now I

leave, witch. Thank you very much for everything.

- Do not do it for you growled the sorcerer. In seven months you killed

many elves, and that you do not remember it does not change the fact that they are

dead.

Ankris stared at him, horrified.

- That's not true, he murmured.

- Yes it is, and you know it. The wolf in you is a murderer. And you've

let loose seven nights. Accept the reality, boy: you are a

werewolf, a monster. You took too long to come to me. I have

given a chance because no rational part of you, and because I feel

appreciation for your parents. But do not make any slip, because there

'll protect you. Do you understand?

Returned to the city Ankris very confusing. The witch was right there

been giving back to reality, thinking that while

encontrase in the forest could not hurt anyone, but as soon as he

a free afternoon made inquiries and found that over the past

months had mysteriously disappeared several elves, always at

outside the capital, in the majority of cases were people

marginal or elves who were passing, so that almost no one had

missed in the city.

But now, Ankris was seriously worried. One night he went to

forest to try to trace their own tracks, and came to a small

half-hidden cave behind some bushes.

What he saw in it populate their worst nightmares for the rest of

her life. At that moment he realized exactly what the witch had

meant, and wished with all my heart to be dead, or not

been born.

Not that cave again, but never forgotten.

After that, he took a decision. He spoke to the Duke for

leave home and stop being at your service. The Duke was sorry, but

failed to change his mind. Ankris longer a soldier of his

bodyguard and settled in a small cabin in the woods, to the

outskirts of the city. I knew that would not stop him if he ever go hunting

a night of full moon, but the potion given him the sorcerer

was still there, in the cupboard, hand.

One afternoon, Shi-Mae was presented at the cottage, in a rage,

demanding to know why he had left the palace. Answered Ankris

with a pair of vagueness about returning to his roots, but not

dared to look into her eyes. What could I say? What nightly

had a nightmare that was transformed into a wolf when he was with

her, and killed, and devoured, and then took his remains to that

dreadful forest cave where he had found the