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-CRASH-

The vial fell onto the floor. The contents fell upon his tongue like acid rain. Burning... Sour, acidic sludge. The elven lord clawed at his neck in panic as the druidic concoction invaded his senses. The wave of primal, nauseating euphoria of the mind and body took over with frightening potency. "MOUNTAIN!", he managed to stammer out in a shout, a final defiant word before his mind clouded with strange visions. Trees... so many trees. Far away in woods he recognized, a place he had been before. Visions tormented his mind with the memories of another, doing things he could not remember doing.

  By now he had blown through the door to his bedchambers and into the kitchen. His tall frame assaulted the walls of his house with the grace of a meatball tossed by a toddler. A desperate, careening Aerendyl scrambles to the door with a speed he himself did not know he could possess. He had to find them, he thought, as more memories pierced his mind. There was something foreign and yet completely urgent that consumed his soul. The elf was unable to stay still.

 

-BOOM!-

 

The hinges of the cabin's front door fly out into the lagoon. The rug shifts and takes flight from beneath his scrambling feet, tumbling far down the balcony and splashing into the pool. He didn't even bother to put his boots on as he sprinted past the tavern, up the stairs, and out of the mouth of the grotto. Aerendyl gulped lungfuls of air as his eyes frantically scanned the beach for the road. His vision was blurry and unsteady, but his feet seemed certain of his path. They took flight down the road, and far away from his home...

 

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The leaves had turned to gold, now. The dark forests surrounding the Vale bloomed with fiery hues, air brisk with chillier misty mornings. His pace had slowed tremendously, having pushed himself to near exhaustion. Deeper into the woodland realm he ventured, past trees and rocks he'd seen a hundred times. Aerendyl pondered what his wife might have thought of him, bumbling through the woods like a wild man, aimless and confused. He thought of his mother, who he had planned to visit so soon after her last visit. And for his children, his heart was heavy.

 

It was then he saw it, the source of his heart's yearning. He'd seen these creatures ridden by the forest guard, silent and practiced in their hunting parties. Three massive wolves dart through the trees and past the druid, unbothered by his presence. Slowing to a gentle lope, the last beast, with a mane of shadows and eyes like fire peer back towards Aerendyl. They were like his own, yellow and seasoned with the trials of life, he thought. They looked back at him not with need nor disdain, without love nor anger. They were simply there... present and keen.

 

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Months passed... Wherever Aerendyl went, the shadowy beast followed. No words, not even in song or poem left the archdruid's lips. He did not need them with this creature, who had come to understand him so well. They hunted as one, relying on each other to ambush deer. When one would drink, so too would the other. In the hour of sleep, the other would keep watch. Months and months keep going in peace until...

 

He snapped.

It wasn't exactly clear what angered the other, or who was to blame... it didn't matter. Teeth flashed and tempted to tear into flesh. Neither committed to the challenge yet, but the strain of their growing competition in being became palpable. Each decision between them became more difficult.

 

Each day he prepared for the next disagreement...

He knew one day, it'd be their last.

Praying to the Pack Lord, Aerendyl waited...

 

 

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A gray man sips on a nice glass of wine with his wife, hoping his new inheritor of the greatest blessing didn't take his methods lightly 

 

 

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