He felt the air change and held his breath. Like all creatures of the forest, all beasts of shadowed places and ancient woodland, the coyote gave himself over to the sensations of the land. Each noise spoke to him; his ears turned wildly at the night-birds and beasts. Wide eyes sucked in what little light given away by heaven, but even now the boughs were thick and their roots deep. Ezekiel relied on his other senses. Whiskers brushed against undergrowth and trees as he passed light-footed and with a coyote’s gait.
A tingling sensation erupted along his left arm and the golden shadow exhaled. The air felt heavy; the rain had not chilled it as he had hoped, and instead filled his lungs with hot warmth. Ezekiel’s body felt sluggish. He panted as he walked, head and tail even with his spine—he walked like a wolf, though he did not consider himself this. Yet there was much of his father’s blood within him. Much too, of his father’s faith, though this had been watered down like the wolf. God did not speak to Gabriel’s unworthy children. Talitha doubted and Talitha blasphemed. Ezekiel had strayed from the flock and come to know other, weaker things that perhaps did not serve the God of Isaac and Abraham and Moses.
It was this that allowed him to believe in what his eyes found. How could they not? The stag glowed without giving off light, and it felt unnatural, it felt wrong. Ezekiel’s hackles rose and he grew still.
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