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“You there, stop!” came the loud cry of a man wearing a black suit and trench coat withdark sun glasses that looked as if no light were ever reflected. The young man being yelled atlooked back with a moment of fear in his eyes deciding at a last moment to make a run for it. Hedid not know why these men were chasing him. All he had done was skip school for a day. Thatwasn’t such a bad crime, right?The boy ran, his young and powerful legs carrying him down the road before he took aturn into the woods that he played in as a child. The sunglassed man ran just as quickly, it didnot seem possible that he was able to run so quickly. The boy looked back searching for the manto try and escape him further, but he did not see him. He stopped, panting hard with the cold air stinging the back of his lungs and his face flushed from running in the cold. He wondered howthe man could run so fast in the cold like he could.“It’s very simple really if you think about it,” said a voice behind the boy, “I am notaffected by the weather like you are.” The boy turned around and saw the man looming over himin his black suit and dark sunglasses. He walked backwards before tripping over a tree root andfalling to the ground. He scrambled over the cold earth as the man approached him with everystep. “Now, you will come with me.” The man reached out about to grab the boy by his coat. A blur passed by and tackled the man. The man fell to the ground and the blur stopped to showhimself, a grey wolf walking around the man as if it was prey.“You will leave the boy alone,” said an inhumanly deep voice from the wolf. The boylooked at the entire episode between the man and the wolf as if he was going insane. What washappening? How was this wolf talking and where did it come from?

“This does not concern you, wolf. It was my task to come and get him and take him back to the Master.” The man stood back up brushing what little dirt he had on him before going back to his perfect image.“If the boy is who I think he is then it concerns us all. Now you will leave and you willnot take the boy with you. You are alone but you forget you are in wolf territory now, human.”The wolf bared his teeth while also glaring at the man. “Leave now or I will rip you to shreds.”“Wait! What’s going on here?!” The boy cried out truly believing he was going insane.What were they talking about? The man and the wolf both glared at him giving him a stare thattold him to shut up and stay out of it for now.“Fine,” the man said turning his gaze back to the wolf with a stone cold face. “I willleave for now, but the Master will not be pleased and he will want the boy.” The man turned tolook at the boy for a final time before turning around and walking off with his coat flowing behind him. The wolf turned his eyes back to the boy. The boy stared at him with a mixture of shock and horror on his face while staring at the yellow eyes of the wolf but in an instance theyturned back to a soft color of brown, like tree bark in a spring day. The wolf with his grey bodyturned around and started walking off, leaving the boy lying there before he stopped and stared back at the boy.“Well are you coming or what? Don’t just sit there like prey waiting to die.” The boyscrambled up and got to his feet hurrying after the wolf. So many thoughts were racing throughhis head, what was happening? Who was the Master? What did the man want? How could thiswolf talk? “To answer your question, all wolves can talk Jacob. We just refuse to talk aroundhumans unless we believe it is absolute necessary. We love to play with human scientists byhowling and making them think we are communicating that way, but no, we all talk. As for what

Malaci, the man you just saw, and apparently his master wants, well that will take some time toexplain. But for now just follow me.”“You can read my mind?!” Jacob exclaimed. Here he was, a young man talking to a wolf that apparently could read minds. He figured that was how the wolf came to know his name wasJacob.“Yes, I can read minds. All wolves can. Now, as for knowing your name, that I did nothave to read your mind to figure that one out. Myself and others like me have been watchingyou and waiting for this moment for centuries.” They walked deeper into the woods, further thanJacob had ever been with his friends. The trees were getting denser and the path was not as clear as it used to be. Jacob remained quiet the entire time wondering what this was all about andwhat the wolf meant by watching him and waiting for this moment for apparently a very longtime. They came to two small trees making an archway and looking as if it was a gate that nature just coincidentally place there. The wolf stopped, turned around, and sat in front of Jacob. “Tellme, what do you see past these trees?”“Are you blind or something? There is just nothing but only more trees and dead leaves.”And Jacob was right, to him he only saw more leaves and more trees. The wolf let out a little bitof a laughter.“No, I assure you I am anything but blind. However, since you are seeing only trees andleaves then the cover is working.” The wolf got up and walked over to Jacob before sitting infront of him again. “Sit young one.”“Hey! I am not young; I am 15 thank you very much.” Jacob said angrily. He hated being referred to as anything relating to being a child.