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狼传说 2008年第4期 　　Running through the woods, wet snow under my paws. I am in a form so familiar, so loved, so…missed. What was man, fades, forgotten. The sharp scent of trees is everywhere. The world is bright in the rising sun. Strong muscles move me forward, moving so fast that the forest is a blur of motion. 　　The sunlight shining through the leaves of the trees, in ever-changing patterns of light and shadow flickers across my eyes. 1)Twigs hidden in the snow, snapping beneath my paws, as I chase my love’s scent. The snow stinging my eyes a little as it’s blown against them from the occasional 2)gust of wind. Some rabbits run frantically away, 3)scurrying into the bushes and their little holes in the ground, the smell of their fear is an 4)enticing scent in my nostrils. Scared little rabbits. I’d love to chase them, but I seek other prey today. My beloved runs ahead, beckoning. 　　Within the space of a single heartbeat, the magic is brutally taken away by a great sense of wrongness that makes the hair rise on my neck. The birds, usually singing their never-changing songs, now take wing and fly out of the trees and off the ground, disturbed. My heart skips a beat, feeling suddenly the unease all around. Then a sharp, loud noise almost like the thunder clap after a close lightning strike, quieter, but painful as its sound slaps harshly against the ears nonetheless. My love jerks and twists in mid-stride! She falls to the ground loosely as though her body had gone full and deeply asleep in an instant. Her blood sprays on that morning’s fresh fallen snow. I approach my love’s side cautiously, frightened by the noise and confused by her reaction to it, seeing if perhaps I can help her. For some reason, she seems to be holding her breath, for I no longer hear it. Has the noise partially deafened me? 　　Again, the noise! The same as before, but this time, I’m the one that jerks and twists. It hurts! My back is afire with pain! My lungs hurt, and as I draw each breath s