I know it sounds all mysterious and blasé, but there really isn’t too much of a mystery. My family and I are shapeshifters, werewolves, lycanthrope, or therianthropy as many people like to call us. Movies always make us out to be ugly and mean. I hate that! Fables come from humans taking snippets of stories and stretching the truth to be more interesting. Thankfully, I don’t need to stretch the truth. Some of us werewolves have multiple attributes; I have the gift of sight, a shaman of sorts. It is important Abel stays in touch with his soul, without his soul, it can cause his rebirth as one of us to be useless. We’ve all heard about shifters that hadn’t been around other shifters so they didn’t know how to stay grounded. Some have been known to shift and never return to their human form; that would ruin everything! I can’t wait to start his training and the first task is to become his friend.
My parents were told I was a shaman when my mom was pregnant with me. She had gone to see her spiritual advisor to discuss the happenings within our Pack and the advisor told her she was pregnant. She hadn’t known she could have children, so she was surprised by both the news of me and that I would be gifted. Within our society it is rare that a shapeshifter get pregnant by a shapeshifter, it is usually a human that will impregnate a shifter or vice versa. Although there have been a few full blood shifters, my father is one, they are very powerful with keen senses and stronger physical strength, and some have other gifts as well. They could be lightening fast, or abnormally strong, some could shift into different animals and some could be empaths. We also have shifters that obtain the virus, either by a recessed gene in both parents or by being infected by a shifter. Very few are the former, that is what Abel is, and his parents are not aware of his legacy. I was enlightened of his ‘condition’ when I was about three years old, I told my parents his name and said the words, “great wolf has been born”. Unbeknownst to me our kind had been waiting for The Great Wolf for hundreds of years. His life could be at risk if discovered by the wrong people so my father took it as his responsibility to train and prepare him for his reign over weres. It took my parents a few years to track him down, the internet wasn’t a household item when I was a kid, so they did it the old fashioned way, they hunted him. They felt it was fate that he was in Oklahoma.
Even though I possess the full-blooded attributes; my other abilities are still developing. With my gift of ‘sight’, I have dreams that have to be documented in a diary and then I see my mother’s spiritual advisor Josie to go over the information for the message. I was so young when I started journaling my mom actually did the writing for me. Although I keep a dream record for greater understanding, there are times I have no idea what they mean. Lucky for me I have Josie, she has a keen sense of what the subconscious has to say.