Dark's Lair

It was an odd dream.  It started out that I was with different animals swimming in a lake.  It was dark, but it reminded me of a gathering of friends.  As they swam, I kept warning them to not go past the buoy to the deeper part, since some of the animals seemed like they weren't that comfortable swimming, but they were going further and further from shore.  They ended up going passed the buoy line and I kept telling them to come back.  I didn't go in the water though.

They seemed to figure out that they had gone too far though and tried to come back.  The animals were on the surface of the water and they all started to panic.  They couldn't figure out how to get over the buoy line.  One of them figured it out and lifted it, but didn't realize that there was more than one line.  A few of the animals tried to go, but got tangled in the buoy line.  There were three lines and different animals were trying to lift different ones, which caused more animals to get trapped.  Then they started to all die.  Their lifeless bodies floated back to the shore.  There was a muskrat, a giant snake, a raccoon, a fox and some other animals.  Then an animal started swimming through the water.  I noticed the ripples and looked to see who it was.  It was the bear.

It came out of the water and shook it's fur.  The water sprayed all over, and I shook my head as some landed on my face.  The bear approached me then and we spoke together for awhile.  The other animals were still floating close to the shore, but we left them.  I let out a small howl for them before the bear and I traveled off of the beach and into the forest.  I'm not sure who the bear was but maybe it represented one of my friends.

Suddenly, there was another animal too and we were all talking and walking through the woods.  I wasn't really paying attention to the other animal though. because a sudden nagging feeling grabbed at me.  The bear asked what it was when I kept pausing, but I said nothing and we continued on.  Then my ears suddenly picked up and I was drawn to something...something that this time I couldn't ignore.  Without telling the bear and the other animal anything, I was suddenly running.  Something inside me was being drawn towards a destination and all I could do was follow it instinctually.

I was running in the forest and then there were other wolves at a crossroad. Some of them looked dead as if they had come back alive from being buried in the ground.  Their carcasses still moved though and their empty eyes bore into me.  But there were others were alive like I was.

We were all running together after a brief pause; all being drawn to something though none of us knew what it was.  We ran until we were at another lake.  This one had logs in it that seemed to move away from the shore and move as if the current was pulling them deeper and deeper into the lake in a straight line.  It almost looked like they were being pulled by a rope, but there was nothing but the small logs and the water of the lake.

We started making our way over the water by stepping on the logs and jumping across them.  Then after that there were rafts fit together with many logs, so we kept on going with those.  We each had our own and once we were upon it, they too moved along the same course.  It was all leading to one spot and some of the wolves were falling behind or falling into the water so they had to return to shore.  There were only so many rafts so some didn't make it.  It was like a contest of who was to make it there.

Then eventually we made it to a bigger raft where we all jumped from the smaller rafts and rested.  We were all tired and panted, but we perked up when there suddenly was another animal that showed up.  The animal was actually a human.  It said that we had to do something before it disappeared and left somehow. I didn't know the other wolves though, so I had my ears down and was laying on my belly on a part of the raft where I was away from them.  I didn't socialize with them since they were from a different clan that I had never seen before.  I was wondering where my mate was though.  I felt alone and estranged from everything since there was no one that I knew.  I wondered if he had made it, or if he had fallen behind with the others.  I kept looking around me through the other wolves, but I did not see him amongst them.

There were different wolves that came to see who I was.  They approached cautiously, and never alone.  There was always at least two or three together.  They tried to look at me and sniff at me in greeting, but I would always scurry off by myself, unsure of how to take their greetings.

One time when I moved, I laid down and looked off in the distance of the lake that seemed thick with mist.  I could see the banks of forests, but the raft continued on between them.  I kept starring at this, and then looking back over the wolves that either cuddled together, spoke together, or looked at me with a wary yet curious gaze.

As I looked at them, my ears perked up and I looked around and sniffed the air.  I smelled a familiar scent, but I didn't see whom I was searching for.  Thinking that this strange place was just playing with my senses, I put my head on my paws and closed my eyes to rest.  It was then that I felt someone nuzzle my side and nibble at my ear.  Looking up with a start, yet with anticipation, I saw that my mate was there beside me.  He nudged me again and I licked his cheek in happiness that he was there. I was glad that he was there and had made it.

It wasn't long after that the raft made it to the land.  Here, there was another forest that covered the land.  The mist clung to the trees here and something stirred in the air.  It seemed peaceful though, and it felt right that we should be there.  We all got off the raft slowly.

The ground was cool against the pads of my feet and the air smelled sweet.  My mate and I stood beside each other just taking in the land.  The other wolves were around us though.  They were curious about who we were but they showed acceptance and tried to invite us along with them.  Looking to my mate, his eyes seemed to tell me that it was alright and he took a step towards the group.  I put my paw on his for a moment as I looked up at him, then went ahead of him.  He came up beside me and we joined the group together.

After the dream, I woke up feeling like a wolf though.  I felt somewhat more aware of my surrounding and my eyes were wide as if they didn't feel like my own, but that of a wolf's.  There was also this feeling...sort of like something was calling me.  Then I kept picturing a forest and then a native in the midst of a forest around a fire.  It was a strange feeling and I wondered what it meant...especially since the night before I had a dream about wolves as well...