05-27-2008, 10:43 PM
Taliesin saw the bear and whimpered, tucking his tail between his legs and slinking off. He didn't know what that thing was, but it was big, and probably NOT friendly; it had certainly scared him, and mum! He whined as he started away making sure that his mum knew that he was leaving the area of the bear. Once he was out of what he saw as the vicinity he his in the open roots of a tree.
Maybe that was what danger was, if so, then he now understood why he had been told to avoid it. At the least he knew that what he had seen wasn't prey, wolves ate prey, and there was no way that he could have eaten that thing! He sat in the roots of the tree hoping that the thing wouldn't eat his mum, did things eat wolves? Suddenly he wondered, he knew that wolves ate stuff, and that mice and voles ate grass, and that grass ate the air and the sun -something that had been explained repeatedly to him on how it worked, but he still had no idea how it worked at all. Photosynthesis was simply beyond the understanding level of a pup like himself.
He guessed it was possible, but what ate the eater of wolves? and what ate that? Was there an end to the eating? The idea was too big for the little boy to wrap himself around, so he stopped thinking, and started to worry. What would he do if his mum was eaten? He could go back to the others, but dah would be mad at him, dah liked Noah, not him.
Suddenly another thought occurred to him. Might the mice be mums? Did they have packs too? What did their family do without them? The thought saddened him, and he realized that he had been the monster to the little mouse he had tried to pounce on... and what of the one mum had killed? Taliesin laid his head down and whimpered disheartened, life certainly was a depressing thing.
Maybe that was what danger was, if so, then he now understood why he had been told to avoid it. At the least he knew that what he had seen wasn't prey, wolves ate prey, and there was no way that he could have eaten that thing! He sat in the roots of the tree hoping that the thing wouldn't eat his mum, did things eat wolves? Suddenly he wondered, he knew that wolves ate stuff, and that mice and voles ate grass, and that grass ate the air and the sun -something that had been explained repeatedly to him on how it worked, but he still had no idea how it worked at all. Photosynthesis was simply beyond the understanding level of a pup like himself.
He guessed it was possible, but what ate the eater of wolves? and what ate that? Was there an end to the eating? The idea was too big for the little boy to wrap himself around, so he stopped thinking, and started to worry. What would he do if his mum was eaten? He could go back to the others, but dah would be mad at him, dah liked Noah, not him.
Suddenly another thought occurred to him. Might the mice be mums? Did they have packs too? What did their family do without them? The thought saddened him, and he realized that he had been the monster to the little mouse he had tried to pounce on... and what of the one mum had killed? Taliesin laid his head down and whimpered disheartened, life certainly was a depressing thing.