LONE WOLF

LONE WOLF

 

Once there was a lone wolf.  He just didn't fit. A square peg in a round hole.  He was ostracized by the pack and became a lone wolf.  He ran for years and years alone.  Thru all kinds of weather.  Driving rain storms, howling blizzards he ran.  Because he had to he became a skilled hunter.

 

After many year of running alone (thirty, maybe forty) he grew older and didn't have as much energy as he used too.

 

One night he laid under an over hang.  It was bitter cold.  He was freezing and  hungrey, his bones ached, a blizzard howled inches from his nose.

 

...when he smelled "smoke".

 

He knew that smoke meant humans and humans meant one things, trouble.

 

In the morning the blizzard was still howling but he became curious and decided to investigate the source of the smoke.

 

He followed the scent .  When he crested a hill there before him in a valley lay a cabin with smoke coming out of the chimney.

 

He lay still and watched it for a long time.  Most of the morning.  When he saw no movement or detected  human scent he approached.

 

When he got close he noticed that the door was slightly ajar.  He stopped.  He waited, he looked, he smelled. nothing.

 

Slowly, cautiously he approached the open door. Nothing moved, there was no sound or scent of humans.

 

Finally he stuck his nose inside the door and smelled....food...!!!

 

Being that he was desperately hungrey and he had not detected the presence of humans he slowly, cautiously entered.

 

Inside was a room.  To the right was a bowl of food and a bowl of water.  To the left was a futon on the floor.

 

On the left side was a fire place with a fire and at the end of the room was an apperition.  It appeared to be a Buddha in a meditation position.  He could see the chakras.  They glowed the colors of thier chakras and the Buddha as a whole had a faint blue/white glow behind it.

 

He didn't know what to make of it but he was very cold and hungrey and so went and , pardon the pun "wolfed" the food down and drank the water which was the sweetest and purest he ever tasted.

 

Satiated, he looked around the room, then went and laid on the futon.  The food and warmth made him drowsy.

 

He drifted off to sleep.  He had a dream.  He was next to a pond in a verdant forest full of game when a she-wolf appeared.  She was pure white with pale blue eyes.  They made deep passionate love.  When he awoke in the morning he discovered he had experienced a "spontanteous nocturnal emission".

 

Nothing had changed in the room.  The food and water bowls were full, the fire still burned.  He laid there for days in total amazement.  When the weather was good he would go out side and chase rabbits for amusement.  He didn't need to catch them, he had more food than he could eat.

 

It was towards the end of the third week that a problem developed.  Slowly but  surely he became aware of a

for the lack of a better description....a hum.

 

It wasn't often, it wasn't loud, but it was there.

 

For weeks on end he listened to it.  Eventually it was so persitent it aggravated him.  He'd go outside to get away from it.  But if the weather was bad he had to go back inside.  Once he stayed way for three days but  hunger and cold drove him back.

 

He got so he couldn't stand it anymore.  It was driving him crazy. It seemed to be coming from the apperition of Buddha at the end of the room.  Growling at it made it worse and more frequent.

 

Then he began to howl and snarl.  Wrong move.  It got louder and more frequent. Finally out of desperation he attacked it.  But it wasn't there.  It was like a hologram.

 

Insane with frustration he layed down and cried.  He screamed in his head "leave me alone".

 

I don't want to hear no more Gawdamn hummnnn..!!

 

When he said hummnnn...!! he heard an echo.  It freaked him out so much that he went out side and ran for three hours.

 

When he returned he ate, drank and laid down and listened to the humnn for three hours.  He knew when it was coming.  He knew how loud it would be.  Finally, out of frustration he humned with the hum.  Again there was an echo.  This time he only ran for an hour.  Then twenty minutes.

 

Finally he layed there and just...humned along.

 

 

The longer he listened to the humn the clearer it became until he realized it wasn't just a humn... it was

 

Ooommmnnn...!!!