This Exciting Life - Chapter 11 My Heart Is Melting

It was a big white wolf the size of a fully-grown stallion. Though most of its fur was coloured in red from the blood, it was beautiful. It had some nasty and fatal wounds and had probably died from that and excessive bleeding. It looked like a female.

No doubt, the roaring last night had something to do with what I saw now. I still kept some distance from it, not that I didn’t think it was dead, but still. Better safe than sorry, right? But where did those whimpers come from?

Then I saw something moving underneath the belly of the wolf and two black snouts peeked out, then two small heads. It was two cubs, a black and a white. They stared at me, afraid and curious at the same time. They were so cute and my heart was melting into a puddle of love.

I realized that it was a mother and her two cubs. They had either escaped from something and then fallen in front of her home or they had gone for a drink of water and got attacked.

Either way, the mother had lost her life and the two cubs were left behind to fend for themselves.

I gulped. What should I do? Should I take them in? But they were wild animals, you know.

I don’t know if it was my skill as a Monster Tamer or if I just emitted safety to them, but the two cubs willingly came over to me, though with some caution at first. It was the black cub that found the courage first. I crouched down but otherwise didn’t move. I didn’t want to frighten them.

The black cub circled me and sniffed me. It took a nap here and there, but it didn’t hurt me. Something told me he was just checking me out. Then it started to whimper again and ever so gently, I patted its head. The fur was a dirty, but really soft.

The black cub nuzzled my hand, licked it carefully and rolled down on its back. The black cub was a male. Because he deemed me safe, the white cub also came over. It was a female and equally cute. They were probably no bigger than a beagle and very young.

I sat down on the ground and crossed my legs. The two wolf cubs crawled on to me and lied down in the small space between my legs. They were falling asleep and I certainly didn’t blame them.

They must have been so scared last night and now they were without a mother.

I remembered how drained I felt when I lost my parents.

I really didn’t want to wake them, but we couldn’t stay here on the ground. I nuzzled their small heads. On the forehead of the black cub was there a white spot in shape of a diamond and on the white cub there was a similar shape in black. I hugged and kissed both of them.

“From now on I’ll call you Yin and Yang. It the symbol of harmony and opposites. Come with me, you must be hungry and tired, and you need a bath.”

As soon as I gave them a name, we were shrouded in a strong white light. All three of us got surprised by it and I quickly got up with the two wolf cubs and ran inside my house to look at my status and their status.