Sleep

by Dreal

There was the day that Nightwind screamed. It was daytime, and the scream hurt my ears, but I knew it meant she needed help, that something had hurt her. I went into her tent and she was lying so still I thought maybe she was already dead. There was no blood, and she was breathing. I lay next to her to guard her and keep her warm, and people came to her tent to check on her, and I knew they were friends, but I was cautious, I was afraid. The big man with the wolves came, and he spoke to me soothingly while checking on Nightwind.

Fire-haired woman was crying a lot, even wolf-man cried some. I was confused. Nightwind was alive, why was everyone sad? It was like she was asleep, even though I thought she slept too long. But after so much fighting, everyone was very tired.

I don't know why, but I got sad too. I stayed in front of Nightwind's tent a lot. I watched people give Nightwind things to drink, and she never woke up. They brought me meat. I ate. A silver man came, with the wolf-man. Wolf-man and silver man smell very similar, so I think they are pack-mates. I let silver man into Nightwind's tent. Silver man cries a lot.

Fire-haired woman comes and takes silver man from the tent, they spend a lot of time crying on each other. Fire-haired woman says something and silver man goes off, angry. Don't like him angry. There's a storm that night. And the next night. And the next night. It doesn't feel right.

Nightwind

Brenhani