Wolf



”Tell me where it hurts.”

”On the arm, a little”

”What happened?”

”Dad hit me. He drank that weird soda again”

”Soda?”

”He gets mean when he drinks it. And he smells really bad from his mouth. My mum goes to her room and cries every time it happens. Afterwards she says we have to forgive him, because he doesn’t know better. ”

”Why is he hitting you?”

”He says I’m ugly, that my nose is scrawny. And that I’m useless.”

A teardrop slipped from Erica’s closed eye. The wolf saw it and licked it up with its great, red tongue.

“He `s strange. I think your nose is cute. And I haven’t seen many humans, but you're not an ugly human. You have a sweet heart. But your father, he has an ugly heart. He shouldn’t hit you. I thought a gun was the only weapon humans used to harm with, but they use their own body too.”

Erica dried her wet chin with her sweater while she continued looking down into the ground.

“Were you chased today?”

“A little. Some people saw me when I tried to take a sheep.”

“I know. They call you murderers.”

“I’ve seen humans kill too. They enjoy it. But we don’t, we only want food.”

“I killed a bird once. It was whistling so loud that I got mad and threw a rock at it to scare it away. But the rock hit the bird instead. When I went over to it, it laid completely still on the ground. It wasn’t breathing. Then I got scared and threw it away as far as I could. Afterwards I cried so much my dad got mad and beat me up.”

Erica turned over to her side and pressed her face deep into the snowhite fur.

“You're so warm, warmer than my blanket.”

The wolf curled itself tighter around Erica and licked her forehead lightly.

“Sleep here, you. I’ll keep you safe.”

“I’m not scared.”

“That’s good. You're brave.”

Erica tucked her coat tighter and curled herself into a ball into the warm body of the wolf.

“Do you want me to howl for you, before you go to sleep?”

“Yes, I like your howling. It’s pretty.”

Erica whispered in a drowsy tone.

The wolf gave a nod before it closed its deep black eyes and revealed its throat towards the moon. Erica fell quietly asleep to the melancholy melody rising up to the night sky.




Erica took a playful jump over the creek. She had so much to tell the wolf. She had to tell that her father was in jail, so now he couldn’t bother her or her mother anymore. She had to tell about the cute boy who had given her a flower at school. How she had captured spring’s first butterfly only using her hands, and how it had tickled in the palms of her hand while it with its light wings had tried to break free. Oh, how wonderful it had tickled!

Erica felt a drop newly melted snow fall on the nosetip of her freckled nose. She closed her eyes and listened to the first spring serenades whisper through the dripping trees.

Erica found herself stopping up. At once it felt that the drop that was still wetting her nose froze to ice. At the trail before her there were two men. Both in green coats. And in the middle of them a white figure laid.

With tiny, whimper sounds the wolf caught Erica’s glare and painfully shaped the corner of its mouth in something that looked like a smile, before the glow faded from the slowly closing eyes, until they were closed completely.



I escaped the evil, but your fate was not that lucky, we both faced evil humans by the day, but in the end,you were the one who failed to stay alive
Wait for me, my friend

Until we meet again