He stood snout to snout with me, as if challenging me to take his territory. Sheesh, I’m not here to take his territory, but does he really have to be so tall? I guess I’ll just play along, I do need some entertainment tonight after all, otherwise, what’s the point of coming out here in the cold? Though, if I look at him, he looks really strong and muscular, a male wolf like him is not something you find every day.

I quickly changed my attitude towards him, trying to act like a vixen, “You know……since I came out here tonight, why don’t we……have a little showdown?” “How ‘bout it?”

Like a wolf pup would, I leant on my front paws and wagged my tail in the air. And I did my best playful eyes.

“Are you a pup? That you want to play with me. Unless you want to fight me, or do you want to play adult style?” He taunted me.

I felt so embarrassed that I pounced on him without any warning, and I bit into his neck, he yowled in pain, we tossed and turned around till we both ended up, lying on the ground, him on top and me below him.

“Huff, huff. You’re a shapeshifter, I can smell your pheromones.” I snorted in reply. “Same to you, Wolfy.”

“Well then, why don’t you tell me who you really are? Or should I play adult style with you till you give up?” I growled. Slowly my transformation from a wolf to my human form began, he did the same when we both transformed, we were both astonished.

"It's you?!" We exclaimed.

After a few minutes when we finished covering up our wounds. He approached me, he said, “What are you doing here? I thought you were sleeping.”

I turned to him, “Your mother told me to come here, she told me to roam the forests till I met a certain someone she told me to meet.” I sounded so cold, as if I hated him.

“Do you hate me?” I didn’t reply. “Did you meet whoever you were supposed meet then?”

I replied coldly, He gazed into my eyes “No. We’re supposed to meet at some ‘Moon Lagoon,’ but Elise didn’t tell me where it is.”

“All she said was that, if you howl, and a howl answers back with a freezing wind, go towards north.” He stared at me.

“Just go towards the ice, stop when you see a willow tree decorated in ice, that’s where you’ll find the ‘Moon Lagoon.’ Just don’t go into the water, otherwise, you’ll experience pain like you’ve never imagined.”

He turned away from me, a shadow crossed his face, I replied “Thanks.”

“Hm.” He started walking away, as he did, I realized I didn’t want to see him go, but I knew we had to part ways for the time being.

When he was ten feet ahead of me, I said, “I don’t hate you.” Then I whispered, “I love you.”

He stopped and turned back when he heard my first sentence, but by then I was already flying towards the north