Dire Wolf

It's cold. As it always is and so there isn't much I can complain about. The soil is covered in fresh snow that freezes and burns. The air is New and Old, known as the NewOld, and its fingers trail fiercely through my thick fur, tugging and cutting. But I don't complain because the Ice's would get angry and The One Mind would call me inadequate and helpless, which I am not. The One Mind believe me to be Without Mind because I do not speak to a large extent, but what The foolish and dim-witted One Mind forgets, is that with us being The One Mind, we all have a mind, and just because our dialogue limits me too speak in the Complexity way, does not mean that I am Without Mind.
   Although, as I think about it, I have more of a mind than they do, for the sole reason that they do not think in the Complexity but rather in the Simplicity, yet I do think in the Complexity. I reason and think, I study and acknowledge while being instinctive. The One Mind think in the Simplicity because they believe that it is their birthright, that it is normal and the way things are, however I think logically, the way a Dire Wolf should. That is why I am the best leader at hunting, fighting and scouting…but I cannot be allowed to do so, because The One Mind's, Ice's lead us as has always been tradition. Without the Ice's there would be no reason for The One Mind to live.

"Sun That Shines." A voice that speaks a name. A voice of a growl, and my name that is said by a voice I know very well.
"Moon That Glows." I reply in the Simplicity. His name is an opposite of mine, but we as a whole are not so different, he and I. I wag my tail in a formal greeting and one of affection, but he does not show direct affection back, and I have to hold back my hurt. He is the Other Kind, other known as a male, and I am known as the Pained Kind, other known as female. The Other Kind are named that because they are other than the Pained Kind, they do not know the hardships we she-wolves bear. I observe him, and see that his fur is silvery grey, brushed with a dull black which streaks from his muzzle to his forehead, which then flows to the sides and upwards some more, shifting into a steely grey, and finally the darkened grey dorsal stripe.

"Ice of Headship and Ice of Birth, gather The One Mind, for the Time of Teeth," Moon That Glows barks out the orders in his rough snow crunching sounded voice, while indicating with his stout muzzle, that we are too meet at the peak. Suddenly I am swollen with frustration at the wording of the orders. It was too simple, without feeling or intelligence. A hiss escaped my clenched teeth, despite my doubled efforts to hold it back. Moon That Glows watches me with understanding and intense amber eyes, but how can he understand? How?
"Sun That Shines will learn that such is the nature of The One Mind…and the Whole." He sighs, as if he remembers his own frustration, but he doesn't know, he hasn't felt like me, because no one has, not even the Whole. Aggravation and the sneering dissatisfaction clasps me tight in its smirking embrace, and I want too, I must… but I can't, I must not speak in the Complexity for it is forbidden, The One Mind's, Ice's laid down that law of The One Mind, but this time I cannot help myself. I speak in the Complexity.
"You do not, cannot understand these feelings Moon, this…Simplicity," I snarl the word in disgust, "Is a death sentence. Forever am I restraining the need to speak in the Complexity!" I stop and shift on my paws nervously, for I can see that Moon That Glows is shocked, hurt, angry and afraid. But I see a flash of something…knowledge perhaps. Am I the only one who feels this way? Does Moon That Glows feel this also?
"Forbidden is the Complexity. You dare speak it?" He growls, and I use my best defence, my hurt at his growling at me.
"Forgive Sun That Shines. Simplicity is found difficult to think" Then I drop my head and pad past him slowly, and I can feel it, the tremors of guilt and torn desires.
"Sun That Shines is forgiven, Moon That Glows will not speak of it too The One Mind or the Ice's." He breathes, coming up beside me. I whine, thanking him.
"The Time of Teeth is to be what?" I ask carefully, speaking in the Simplicity was hard when forming a sentence.
"Time of Teeth of the Great Tusks" Moon That Glows replies eagerly, his voice shaking with excitement, he has always been thus, eager for a large Time of Teeth but now I am worried for him. The Great Tusks were incredible hard and knew how to defend The One Mind well; they are gigantic too, far bigger than the Whole. Worry gnaws at my Being, I cannot have Moon That Glow's get hurt, not him.
"Sun That Shines is worried" He observes, as we break into a run, sweeping across the frozen landscape with enchanting fluidness.
"Worried for Moon That Glows" I admit, and he doesn't speak at first so I know I have ruined it, but I cannot be with Moon That Glows. It is the Ice's that make the family and I have no right too cause a feud within The One Mind.
"Worried for Sun That Shines" He sighs quietly, I look up sharply but he is running faster, pushing through the uneven snow, feeling that rush of wind slap against him. I go after him, but following not wanting to inquire because it would lead to all kinds of trouble, and he could have meant anything, so we race onwards towards The One Mind and our Ice's.