Deep in the forests of history there lives a beast. From time to time it would meet with its wise Kitsune, who would share her tricks with the beast. At others. he would visit the wolves of balance, where the white wolf with the black heart would bite him when he wasn’t kind, and the black wolf with the white heart would talk of battles past. The beast would run with many packs, mostly wolves and dogs, as the wise Kitsune warned him not to be uncautious around foxes.

But one day, in histories fields of flowers, he found something, something different, something he wanted to protect.

And so he went to the wolves of light and dark, and the wise Kitsune, and they devised a plan, a plan to hide the beast and this thing as a human, hidden until the time was right.

Submitted at Dunn Village Hall in August 2024 as part of Little Arts Festival 2024.

Image: John James Audubon(Life time: 1785-1851), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons