Sorry for the wait.
Skoll sighed. He regretted coming all the way out here if there wasn’t even anything interesting to look at, and he only hoped that he would be able to find his way back by scent before the moon rose. His caregivers would probably panic if he was out this late in the evening, even though such behavior was expected of him more often than it was expected of his siblings. Sighing once more for very dramatic effect, he lifted his hindquarters and tensed his legs to jump off the swing. However, as he perched at the very edge of the love seat, a wispy pale shape strolled through the dead flowers toward him.
This had to be a spirit! Ghost stories were, of course, included with all the other tales he demanded from any adult with a working jaw in the pack. He’d always had a hard time imagining phantoms—and had confused a piece of floating fabric for a ghoul once—but this creature walking toward him was too ephemeral to be mortal. It had a willowy body with long legs, and flowing, feathery fur where a normal wolf wouldn’t have any. Even its ears were long and furry, tipped with black like charcoal. Its eyes were dark, too, almost hollow.
The boy was quivering with more excitement than fear as the creature floated through the poppies toward him. It addressed him in a quiet, feminine voice, and his green eyes widened a fraction. It had spoken to him! He quickly jumped down from the swing and stared up at the specter wonderingly. It smelled like Cour des Miracles, like any other normal pack member, but it was too strange and wispy-looking to be someone he knew, right?
“I lookin’ fer fairies,” Skoll confided, “but they no here.” He looked around at the dead meadow then back at the pale creature—and then, before he could keep himself contained any longer, blurted: “Are you a ghost?”
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