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Akela

Akela was a gray timber wolf powerful with large feet, robust limbs and magnificent tail. He defied fear, denied defeat revered his only mate. His enemy was man and the jaws of iron. It was spring, a time of awakening, a season to bear young, hunt and forage. This day Akela would seek a den for his mate. The early morning air nippy but clear. Timber tops creased the sky. Sunrise hues of pink and red. Akela picked a path across the snow sprinkled loam, the female swollen with his seed trailed behind. Suddenly, without warning he heard a SNAP his mate, seized by the TRAP called to him with a pitful whine. Akela spun around, hackles up, teeth bared in a vicious grimace but the iron jaws were clenched. He ran to her side, licked her paw and face, attempted to erase the pain. Heart pounding...he was powerless. In the end he lay down beside her. A day or two passed and in early dawn she gave her last sigh and was gone. Akela wailed a visceral howl from deep inside his soul.

Copyright © October 2002 marilyn terwilleger


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