Saturday, November 18, 2006

a cry , a wound, and a broken heart

At the peak, a silhouette… with a background of the sunset, I heard her crying. A silver wolf. I never saw the real one. The howl was so sad. Calling some names. My heart’s pounding so hard. This is the caused of the blizzard. A cry of Silver Wolf. It’s real. Not just a fairy tale.

A cry of Silver Wolf is a fairy tale that had been spoken to kids years and years. It was spoken that the cry of the legendary wolf could make a big disaster to nature. A blizzard; huge blizzard that could make the whole world frozen. Years and years ago, there’s a hunter looked for a prey at the Holy Mountain. The man meet an unbelievably beautiful wolf with silver fur that’s he never saw in his whole life. He fell in love with the beauty of silver fur, so that he hunted the wolf over the mountain. The man’s effort gave the result; the silver wolf dead in his hand. And he got the fur he wanted for all his life. He came back to his village, gave the fur for his wife as a present, and celebrated his victory. But then, few days later, a wolf pack rushed the village. A group of silver wolfs follow the scent of their family who was killed by the hunter. Suddenly, a huge blizzard freeze the whole village, dancing along with the cry of silver wolfs. No one survive, and the village now known as North Grieve Lake. Well, the truth is no one never met wolfs with silver fur. So no one trusted that story.

“What will we do?” Moon asked.
Midnight is kind of disturbed with those cries. “We’ll move on.” She walked farther way from the wolf. Even it will freeze the whole mountain, she didn’t care. It’s not her business. Stop it! STOP that whines! I don’t want to hear it!
“What are you talking about??”
Midnight stopped, looking back to Moon sharply. “I think you have your ears on.” She replied cold. “Move it.” She didn’t want to seek other’s business, like she didn’t want anyone else seek hers. I have my own problem.
Mad with her decision, Moon yelled, “I THINK you’re a servant of nature! So this is how you serve, isn’t it?” Moon has enough already take her cold attitude. She act liked this many times. For the whole years, she never took care for the needing.

“She’s looking her kids. She’ll find it anyway.. Her howl will bring them along.”
“Hellooooo?? People said it’s already two months. It’s no way she can find her kids. Look at her! She’s so skinny! Or think of the villager back down the mountain! They’ll die freezing!”

Midnight stopped. She doesn’t care of the people down the mountain. She doesn’t know one of it. She looked back at the wolf.
Midnight agreed. The wolf’s so skinny. Maybe she didn’t feed up herself for that long. Or because she thinks about her kids a lot. That what make Midnight feel so jealous. What she remembers of her mother is the fact that her mother dumped her in a festival happening; leaving her by saying that mommy will buy her a kite. Life is so unfair; she felt. Life is cold. Just like this blizzard. You can’t melt the ice, so don’t bother to do it at all. People live for disappointment. So stop hoping a dream.

“Nity?”

Midnight still think hard. This blizzard sooner or longer will give us a hard time on our travel. Just one way to make it stop. Make the wolf stop her howl.

“Nity?”
”Okay. I’m considering our plan.”
“what plan?”
“To make her stop, idiot.”

Midnight walk back passing her tiger; who can’t believe what he have heard just then. “…please repeat it again?”

“You should check your ear, my love..”

Moon smiled. And that reaction gave him a good sign. “Check it for me, babe..”

To be continued….