cages!"
"Cages?"
Yes, like spider webs! Only they are different, very hard, I couldn't destroy them. You were everywhere! I jumped and jumped and didn't get free! "
He's talked about it before, Blue thought, the night after the warning call. She put one of his ears gently in her mouth and nibbled at it.
"Forget the dream, Hige!"
"But he was - so real!" he said thoughtfully.
"There are no spider webs here that do not tear. And certainly not cages!" explained Blue. "Nightmares are like that. When you wake up, everything will be fine again."
Hige put her head on the sister's shoulder. Her closeness, the warmth of her body, her familiar smell, made him feel confused. She was right, he thought. It was just a dream. I also ran across this endless meadow and that was also a dream.
The siblings stayed in the shade of the tree, huddled together.When the sun had reached the highest point in the sky, when the midday heat shimmered and the wolves retired to camp and dozed in the shade of the trees, they heard a loud howl from the south. Immediately everyone was wide awake and listening. The howling repeated itself at short intervals. It was the call of a wolf entering foreign hunting grounds: "I will come in peace! Allow me to go too far!"
Zari Kan got up and answered: "You are welcome!"
"That must be Kan," Ashi said. "He will want to know what the warning call means. Why is it only now? I would have expected it earlier."
Zari Kan raised his forehead and imperceptibly moved his tail as if to say: Stelle Kan is young! He hasn't been leading his pack for long.
As Stelle Kan was approaching, they heard him yapping over and over again. Now that he could be sure that he would be welcomed in a friendly manner, he was not following any precautionary rule. Before he reached the hillside, he was betrayed by rustling leaves, knocking branches, and the sound of his paws.Immediately afterwards he appeared under the trees and ran with a waving tail towards the wolves waiting for him.
The sunlight reflected his magnificent fur, ruff, back fur and tail shone black. Stelle Kan was many years younger than Zari Kan, and not quite as tall, but strong and well-built; his every move betrayed that he was aware of it and stozed of it.
Zari Kan and Ashi stood up to full height, tails outstretched, ears up. Stelle Kan stopped a little without a breath and greeted the two lead wolves with impetuous wagging tails, sniffed at them and ran his long tongue over their noses. Zari Kan and ashi returned the gestures of friendship, only more calmly and not so stormily. Ooki and Ken stood quietly and waved their loose and hanging tails. Cloe looked bored at the air. Hige, Blue and Kiba had taken the puppies in the middle. When Stellen Kan wagged them down a bit from above - after all, he was the leader of a pack and they were only insignificant young wolves - his gaze was much on Cloe.Immediately she began indifferently to scratch her paws, stretching and stretching her whole body.
Kan paused. His tail and ears stood upright, he was feverishly feverish. For a moment he seemed to have forgotten that he was in the camp of another pack and that it was not his place to approach one of the young female wolves. When ashi growled, he quickly turned away, lowered his tail and pretended that nothing had fallen before. He nudged Tsume und Toboê, licked their faces and said: "I see your puppies are healthy and strong. May it stay that way.
Then he sat on his back legs, front legs slightly apart, and panted a few times to catch his breath. Otherwise you couldn't tell from the exertion of the long run. "Tell me now what was going on last night, why did you cry the warning call! You see, I came myself, I take it so seriously. I could have sent someone from our pack, but I thought, no, you have to do it yourself when two wolves with such experience warn you.That's what Tessa said too! "Stelle Kan played with his ears and looked at Zari Kan with a look that clearly said that even if you are the leader of a pack, you should let the lead wolf have her way." To be honest, "he continued." You gave Tessa a real scare. Me too! But then nothing happened. Everything calm and peaceful as always and nothing to worry about. Not in our valley and "- he looked over the meadow in the sunshine -" not here with you either. So what kind of danger is it that cannot be seen or felt? "
"We do not know it." answered Zari Kan.
Steele Kan rocked incredulously and let his tongue hang out of his mouth, which gave him an astonished expression. "You don't know? That can't be true!"
"Place Kan," said Ashi. "Restored the reputation of Balto Kan's pack. We just passed it on. Balto Kan doesn't know the danger either, he just knows that the warning call comes from the north."Place Kan stared at her. "And that's it?" he asks.
"No, Kan. It is said that the birds had heard of the migratory birds, that in the land of Alaska there is a giant pack, as innumerable as the pebbles in a river, led by one who is so big and strong that nobody can stand him can wherever he goes. And that is the danger, said Rusty, the eagle. "
Stellen Kan's expression relaxed, a gasping sound like a laugh came from his throat. "Oh, that's it!" he shouted. "The birds, a few birds chatter and like wolves - we all howl 'Fear your life!' One who is huge and a huge pack from Alaska? What a story! Oh, I have to tell Tessa!"
He threw his head back, jumped on all fours in the air and, as if he could no longer hold himself up for pleasure, fell to the ground, rolled over to us, kicked his legs and swung his tail.
Zari Kan and Ashi watched him in silence.
Kan stood up, a little ashamed of having forgotten his dignity as a lead wolf in front of another pack, and straightened up to make up for it."Excused!" he said. "It came over me! And you have to admit, not without reason. Now I can go home without worrying .. Some wolf in Alaska had a bad dream - maybe! Or listened to eagles chatter."
It creaked in the top of the tree. Rusty had come back to the camp without the other wolves noticing. He flew onto one of the lowest branches and glared at Kan with his pearl eyes. "Eagle chatter? On the contrary, my young and oh so inexperienced friend, I have just heard nothing but wolf chatter. Do you long legs want to be the smartest of all? We, who have wings, know a lot that you don't know. Ask Hota , the old man! He found out about the wandering birds and they saw more of the world than you, little pointed ear! "
“Hota, the old man from the mountain?” Stele Kan pulled the Leftzen up disdainfully. "What do we wolves have to do with a bear? They are not our prey with their four paws and we are not theirs, but there is no friendship between us and as long as the world is looking, we avoid each other.No thanks! I don't need a bear's advice. "
"Hota from the mountain is older than all other living beings, Stelle Kan," said ashi. "And he should see what has not yet happened, but will happen."
"Maybe! But maybe it's only called that because he's ancient. I won't let him spoil my day." Stelle Kan rubbed his snout against Ashi's fur, sniffing. "Now I have to go. Tessa is waiting for me."
After showing the courtesy to Zari Kan, he waved goodbye to the rest of the pack. Cloe had moved to the edge of the camp and, as if by chance, strutted past Kan. Stelle Kan couldn't help but look at her in admiration, he stuck out his tail and swept across the meadow with wide leaps. Before he reached the undergrowth he yelped happily and when he reached the top of the hill he howled one last time.
The wolves stood still. Blades of grass that had bent under Kan's paws now straightened up again.A furry bumblebee crawled in a blue calyx and immediately afterwards, humming, its legs covered with yellow pollen, flew to the next flower. In the bushes a bird was singing, a trilling flute that ended in a loud cry.
"Rusty, come to me!" Ashi asked.
The eagle flew out of the branch, sat down in front of it and eyed her.
Ashi sat on her hind legs and looked down at the eagle. "Did you just make up the story of the giant pack up in Alaska, Rusty? Or is it true?"
"True, sister four-legged? How should I know?" The rough eagle voice sounded softer than usual. "I saw Blacky fly down into paradise. After the howling in the night. And then Red, the red finch, talked about something Believe it or not. "
"And the wandering birds? It is said that they tell Hota everything they have seen and experienced on their long journey. Isn't that so?"
"Yes, Ashi! When you flee to Nitakama from the snow and ice, you stop at Hota, the old man.And when they're on their way back to Alaska because the ice and snow melt, so do they. "
"And they tell him everything," Ashi said softly, as if dressed to herself. "Did you send him a message from Alaska?"
She fell silent. It seemed to the silent pack that they were suddenly far away.
The eagle tugged at her fur. "Hey, sister four-legged friend, are you dreaming with your eyes open? Wake up!"
Her gaze slowly went from one of the wolves, to the young wolves, to the pups. Tsume waved.
"Rusty" said Ashi. "have you ever been to Felsland?"
"Only once! And that was a long time ago. I wanted to know what it looks like up there." He fluffed his feathers and shook himself. "I flew away again quickly. Nothing but stone and rock and no fir trees for me."
"Do you know where Hota, the old man, got his cave?"
"Yes! But I'll never fly up there again!"
"Not even if I ask you, Rusty, my friend?"
The eagle began to flutter excitedly. "Do not look at me like that!What you up to? You won't want to go up to the old bear? "
"But rusty, I want that. And you should show me the way."
Ooki and Ken suddenly raised their heads. The young wolves held their breath. Toboê shifted confused. Cloe looked disinterested.
Zari Kan's fur on the back bucked. "You know how to go to Hota, Ashi?"
"Yes, Zari