The joy and relief I had when arrived at the houses, disappeared as quickly as they came, because there were nobody around at first sight, and I thought maybe they were hiding or something. I walked around the village and saw tools and stuff laying around as if the people of this village has hurried away from something, I walked into one of the houses that was near me and looked around for any clues to where I was and where I should go, instead there were clothing laying around, and some unfamiliar fruit in a bowl on a table, the structures of the house was very simple, everything in it were made of wood, I thought of how strange the situation was and how eerie the atmosphere was, and as I was about to go out from the house, something near the door catches my attention. There was a sword on the wall and it was in an scabbard, and as I took it down from the wall and drew the sword out of the scabbard, i thought first how strange that they left it here, but I quickly noticed that it was broken and that the tip was missing. I put the sword into the scabbard again, and hang it on the wall, then I walked out from the house. The moment i walked out, I heard a commotion in one of the houses a distance away.
I backed slowly into the house i was in again, and picked up the broken sword, and strapped it on. I then moved towards the other house, as I reached the door, I slowed my movement and carefully walked near the door, and had my ears next to the door, to hear what or whom that was inside. I heard movement inside, but I could not discern if it was a person or just a animal. I then thought of looking through the window but it was closed, after all it was made of wood. I decided then to slowly open the door, and peek in, and as I was about to do that I heard a growl behind me, I quickly shifted my attention to the sound, and what i saw gave me goosebumps. Standing there was a wolf that seemed to be decaying, and it face was rotten with maggots crawling around in it, it eyes was focused on me, and then it lunged at me. I dodged to the right, the wolf crashed into the door, making it bent, and I heard then the whimper of something small inside the house. I then quickly drew the broken sword and focused on what the wolf was gonna do next.
The wolf then stared at me but there were only hunger in its eyes, and I knew that running away was no option, so I readied myself for its next move, which was that it ran to the right side of me and then it lunged again, I tried to move but I was a bit too slow as it teeth scratched my cloth and its teeth grazed my flesh a bit. Taking the momentum, I tried to slash the wolf, but it avoided it narrowly and moved a bit away. It then readied once again to attack me, and ran forward and lunged at me neck, I instantly pulled the sword and pierced its head with all my might and as the sword connected to the wolf, the sound of its head cracked could be heard. It instantly stopped moving and as I drew out the sword from its head, which was not quite easy when the sword had been stuck a bit to far into its head, I fell on the ground and the adrenaline and fear I felt just now was overwhelming, that I had to have a moment to take it all in. Then I remember the sound from the house that the wolf had slammed its head into the door, that I heard a sound coming from it.
I stood up and slowly walked towards the half smashed door, and i moved carefully and as i opened the door, I once again heard the sound of something whimpering. I readied myself and moved into where the sound came from, which was upstairs. I was on high alert as I did not know what would await me, so I had the sword ready. Then the sound went silent, as if whatever thing that did the sound knew that I was near it, I reached a room that seemed to be the bedroom of the past owners, and I slowly knelt down on my knee to look under the bed as there was nothing elsewhere to hide in this room, what locked with my eyes was a small white haired wolf, It growled at me and seemed very frightened, I thought of the dead wolf outside the house, and thought if that was this little wolf mother or kin.
I noticed the wolf still glaring at me, awaiting whatever move I would do, I saw in its eyes that it was intelligent, that whats I felt that it was, so I sat down beside the bed and urged it to come towards me. I tried to have a calm mind and relaxing body sign, so that it would be less intimidated by me. It seemed to work as it slowly and steady began to walk towards me, it also stopped growling and only silently moved towards me. When it was just few inches away from my hand, It smelled my scent, and then sniff my hand, after that it then licked my hand and a weird symbol began to appear on it. it glowed quite intense, and a sharp pain coursed through my hand, but it was bearable, The small wolf just looked at me with worry in its eyes, and almost seemed to care about me, even thought we just met.
The glowing then stopped after few seconds, and I could see clearly the symbol, it was that of a moon and I felt somehow refreshed. ´´ Are you okay ?´´ could be heard and it sounded like that of a small child, I was startled by the sudden voice and quickly looked around to see whomever that talked. There was just me and the wolf though, I then looked at the wolf and it looked at me, then I could clearly hear the voice again, I then knew where the voice came from as I looked at the little white wolf.